COMMUNITY
Talks
Invited Talks
Conference Presentations
“From Stalking to Sweeping: The Evolution of Los Angeles Spatial Policing”
Reimagining the Settler City: Spatial Surveillance and Inequality in Los Angeles. at Urban History Association Biennial Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
Oct 2025
“Community Coalitions, Neoliberal Care and Banishment of Street-Based Sex Workers in South Central Los Angeles”.
Carceral Care. Law and Society
Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. May 2025
“Technologies of Displacement: Gendered Layered Surveillance in Sucia Geographies”.
From Labor to Leisure: Mobility, Space, and Subject Formation in
Latinx Digital Media Practice for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Chicago, Illinois. April 3-6 2025
“Un/mapping geographies of suciedad: leaning into fugitivity and illegibility” Latinx Feminist Practices of Digital Memory Work as Care.
National Women’s Studies Association. Detroit, Michigan.
Nov 2024
“Sweeping Suciedad: Feminist, Indigenous Queer and Trans Responses to Policing Space, Sexualities and unhousedness in Latinx MacArthur Park”
Carceral Care. American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA
Panelists: Isabella Restrepo (UCSD), Kayla Martensen (University of New Mexico), Katie Quinn (Syracuse University)
Behind the Red Light: A Cinematic Exploration of Sex Work, October 2024
Beyond the Interface: Critical Perspectives of Sex Work and SexTech
Panelists: Soma Snakeoil (cofounder of The Sidewalk Project), Jen Elizabeth (Director of Street Engagement at The Sidewalk Project), Antonia Crane (Founder of Soldiers of the Pole and Strippers United)
Settler Carcerality: Occupation, Surveillance, and State-making
Thinking Gender Conference 2019
MODERATOR: E. Tendayi Achiume, School of Law, UCLA
Joana Chavez, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Hartlyn Haynes, Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
June Kuoch, Asian American Studies, UCLA
Stephanie Lumsden, Gender Studies, UCLA
Kayla Marie Martensen, Criminology Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kimberly M. Soriano, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Spatial Disruptions: The Politics of Gentrification and Gang Injunctions in Echo Park