Award Winning Works
I've competed in both state and national journalism competitions at the collegiate and professional levels. Throughout my time with the UW Oshkosh student newspaper The Advance-Titan, I placed first in state multiple times and landed in the top 20 personality profiles for the Hearst Award.
Here you will find brief snapshots of some of my best work. Click the link to read more.
Joe Gow and his wife Carmen Wilson walked into a Best Buy in La Crosse, Wisconsin. They
were going to buy their first camcorder.
A clerk stood behind the help desk wearing a blue Best Buy polo.
“We need a camcorder,” Gow said nonchalantly. The clerk turned to look at Wilson.
“Well, what are you going to shoot with this?” the clerk asked. “Sports?”
“Yeah, like that,” Wilson said.
Really, the couple was about to embark on a new passion project: producing porn together.
A letter to UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt alleging that the university engaged in a “pattern of silencing the student press by restricting campus voices” has resulted in policy changes that will include University Marketing and Communications (UMC) encouraging staff and faculty to be responsive to the Advance-Titan and its reporting efforts.
It’s time to support student free press
The Advance-Titan staff believe that Assembly Bill 551, which would protect student First Amendment rights by stipulating that student journalists are responsible for determining the content of student publications at public secondary schools and colleges, will improve our ability to learn real life journalistic skills in a student newsroom. The past has shown us that violations to our First Amendment rights can happen here unless we do something to stop it.
Feminist Research
During my undergraduate I minored in women and gender studies with a particular focus on patriarchal systems and there harm to both men and women. During my final semester, I presented my research on pregnancy-related prosecutions at the Women and Gender Studies Consortium at UW-Madison.
In June of 2022, during the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) ending a guaranteed constitutional right to an abortion. One year post-Dobbs, the US experienced the highest number of pregnancy-related prosecutions recorded in a single year (Bach and Wasilczuk). States are using fetal personhood laws, interpretations of the Comstock Act, family policing, HIPAA loopholes and technology surveillance to prosecute women for such “crimes,” when in most of those cases, the babies were born healthy, and the women were prosecuted after giving birth. From an outsider's perspective, these rules and regulations look like they are meant to protect the life of both the mother and fetus. However, each one of these points has an undercurrent of eugenicist language, and will undoubtedly cause the subjection of all women, pregnant or not. The overturning of Roe and Casey is a dangerous stepping stone towards creating an anti-feminist nation that strips women of all rights to their bodies.
Glee’s “Preggers” (season one, episode four) was a pivotal moment for LGBTQ+ representation on broadcast television. “Preggers” was aired during a time when sexuality was a volatile conversation in the US. One year after Proposition Eight was passed to legally define marriage as between a man and woman, and public opinion surveys were showing the majority of the population to have a less than favorable view of gay people, “Preggers” was a shining light. Through Kurt’s nontraumatic coming out story, Ryan Murphy created one of the first positive representations of gayness on network television.
Intersectional feminism is the key to creating a healthy environment for young boys to become healthy men. By employing intersectional feminism, we can rid ourselves of gender norms and create space for men to garner strong interpersonal relationships. In teaching boys feminism, feminism will act as a harm reduction strategy and create better men to further society.