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Maria’s main research interests revolve around the intersections of race, women, gender, and sexuality, and digital media. More specifically, she focuses on how marginalized communities work within/against systems to carve rhetorical space for themselves to tell their stories to vastly diverse audiences. She is particularly interested in issues surrounding “trap doors” (Gosset, Stanley, and Burton, 2017), invisibility/(hyper)visibility, and possibility/potentially. Her master’s thesis explored the genre of trans memoir in print and digital spaces. She specifically explored Geena Rocero’s memoir Horse Barbie and Dylan Mulvaney’s TikTok series “Days of Girlhood” to ascertain how trans people work within/against the constraints of the trans memoir genre to tell their stories in a politically fraught moment of trans hypervisibility and violence. She has also written pieces on television series such as New Girl and Normal People as well as movies like Barbie.