Dr. Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@jesswestbrook.bsky.social
🦨~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
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I warmly invite you to submit a chapt proposal for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods. This volume explores how every phase of the research process: design, methods, tools, analysis, communication – can be Queered.
deadline: 6/30/25
deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...
deadline: 6/30/25
deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...
OCT 31 deadline for the paper abstract. Glad to help. Reach out and we can chat. Design Research Society (DRS) 2026 – drs2026.thedrs.org/2-2-queering. Paper specs/template here: drs2026.thedrs.org/conference/p...
2.2 Queer(ing)
2.2 Queer(ing) Design Research/Practice
drs2026.thedrs.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
OCT 31 deadline for the paper abstract. Glad to help. Reach out and we can chat. Design Research Society (DRS) 2026 – drs2026.thedrs.org/2-2-queering. Paper specs/template here: drs2026.thedrs.org/conference/p...
drs2026.thedrs.org/2-2-queering
Dear everybody, here we go! The DRS2026 (DesignResearchSociety) paper theme track has come to life !!! Glad to answer Qs. Keywords: lived experience, embodiment, reflexivity, norm-breaking/norm-making
Dear everybody, here we go! The DRS2026 (DesignResearchSociety) paper theme track has come to life !!! Glad to answer Qs. Keywords: lived experience, embodiment, reflexivity, norm-breaking/norm-making
2.2 Queer(ing)
2.2 Queer(ing) Design Research/Practice
drs2026.thedrs.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
drs2026.thedrs.org/2-2-queering
Dear everybody, here we go! The DRS2026 (DesignResearchSociety) paper theme track has come to life !!! Glad to answer Qs. Keywords: lived experience, embodiment, reflexivity, norm-breaking/norm-making
Dear everybody, here we go! The DRS2026 (DesignResearchSociety) paper theme track has come to life !!! Glad to answer Qs. Keywords: lived experience, embodiment, reflexivity, norm-breaking/norm-making
almost!!!
June 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
almost!!!
still have about 10 deadlines before I can get back to studio mode gah
June 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
still have about 10 deadlines before I can get back to studio mode gah
taking a few days off soon. need a few nothing days.
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
taking a few days off soon. need a few nothing days.
now where was i
June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
now where was i
its been a minute. peace and love USA peace and love. absurd horrifying theater.
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
its been a minute. peace and love USA peace and love. absurd horrifying theater.
offline May 31 – June 9 for the most part.
May 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
offline May 31 – June 9 for the most part.
when I was a kid I didnt overthink things, had no internal dialogue, trusted everyone
May 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
when I was a kid I didnt overthink things, had no internal dialogue, trusted everyone
life is a strange gift
May 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
life is a strange gift
had a cool call, then oof botched a few things, delivered a project later than I wanted, lots to do still. note: I will be totally offline for about 10 days soon. detox by way of circumstances. will see what it does to my chemistry. remember 1995? that feel. slower, more mysterious, more social.
May 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
had a cool call, then oof botched a few things, delivered a project later than I wanted, lots to do still. note: I will be totally offline for about 10 days soon. detox by way of circumstances. will see what it does to my chemistry. remember 1995? that feel. slower, more mysterious, more social.
mostly very busy. all good stuff. excellent call yesterday. met old friends at museum for much needed social interactions. def rec this. visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/... onto prepping for events. figuring. ideas and logistics. was rainy most of the day which suited the inside times. travel soon.
» Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
visit.mcachicago.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
mostly very busy. all good stuff. excellent call yesterday. met old friends at museum for much needed social interactions. def rec this. visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/... onto prepping for events. figuring. ideas and logistics. was rainy most of the day which suited the inside times. travel soon.
reflecting real quick. I love when folx have themes, ideas, practices, and I literally have no idea what gender they are/use, it doesn't matter, and I dont care. it's fantastic ambiguity untangled from all the assumptions, associations, impositions.
May 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
reflecting real quick. I love when folx have themes, ideas, practices, and I literally have no idea what gender they are/use, it doesn't matter, and I dont care. it's fantastic ambiguity untangled from all the assumptions, associations, impositions.
just walking tonight. slow. smells fantastic out here
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
just walking tonight. slow. smells fantastic out here
early call tomorrow with some brilliant people. everyday im amazed by the smarties I get get to meet. blows my mind. what a time to be alive. best and worst.
May 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
early call tomorrow with some brilliant people. everyday im amazed by the smarties I get get to meet. blows my mind. what a time to be alive. best and worst.
my partner back later tonight from NY. could use a hug. its weird not touching any person or animal for days and days. im big on hugs. people at work DO NOT HUG.
May 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
my partner back later tonight from NY. could use a hug. its weird not touching any person or animal for days and days. im big on hugs. people at work DO NOT HUG.
did get my backup pump the other day. did get some old-timey long acting insulin in case my equipment double fails. this is how we travel. redundant systems.
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
did get my backup pump the other day. did get some old-timey long acting insulin in case my equipment double fails. this is how we travel. redundant systems.
I dont know where the day went but im happy with some amount of progress. this particular project is slow going and not sure if its b/c I care or if because im genuinely fried from multitasking. steady steady. did ride. did eat. did charge transmitter and change sensor.
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I dont know where the day went but im happy with some amount of progress. this particular project is slow going and not sure if its b/c I care or if because im genuinely fried from multitasking. steady steady. did ride. did eat. did charge transmitter and change sensor.
this book I just started kind of depressing and stressy. What else do we have… need something warm and empowering maybe collective imagination, love, magic. When I was a kid I used to read the old set of encyclopedias someone gave my family I loved them they were bound in white texture and smelled
May 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
this book I just started kind of depressing and stressy. What else do we have… need something warm and empowering maybe collective imagination, love, magic. When I was a kid I used to read the old set of encyclopedias someone gave my family I loved them they were bound in white texture and smelled
