AP (they/she) is a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies. They earned their BA in Women's and Gender Studies and BJ in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri in 2017 and earned their MA in Feminist Studies at UCSB in 2019. AP's research focuses on the politics of media, drawing on various fields including sex work studies, comics studies, video games studies, and masculinities studies. Their teaching experience spans topics like introductory feminist studies, queer theory, and feminist media studies. AP's dissertation research examines the aesthetic and affective circulation of antiwork politics in digital media, working cross- and interdisciplinarily using affect theory, queer theory, and Marxist feminism.