Cait McKinney
Assistant Professor of Communication (Simon Fraser University)
| Degrees: | BA (University of British Columbia), MA (York University), PhD (York University) |
| Phone: | 778-782-7143 |
| Email: | cait_mckinney@sfu.ca |
| Website: | Browse |
Cait McKinney is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University specializing in sexuality studies, media history, feminist media studies, and activist media. McKinney’s research examines the politics of information in queer social movements, focusing on how these movements struggle to provide vital access to information using new digital tools, within conditions where that access is often precarious. This work considers how queer and feminist social justice initiatives offers novel approaches to issues of accessibility, data-management, and participation in networked media environments. Their current research focuses on HIV/AIDS and digital media, and queer activist responses to early online content regulation. McKinney was previously a Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, Montréal, and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.
McKinney’s research has appeared in GLQ, Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture, Radical History Review, and Feminist Theory, amongst other publications. They are the co-editor of Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC Press and AGYU Press, 2019). Their first monograph Information Activism was published by Duke University Press in August 2020.
In addition to publication, McKinney is interested in research creation projects that take the form of exhibitions, videos, performance, and other encounters. Their collaborations with the artist Hazel Meyer have shown at the Glasgow International (2018), the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto, 2016), and the British Film Institute Film Festival (London, 2018).
Pronouns: They/Them or She/Her