She is a qualitative researcher who centers questions of sexuality, intimacy, and belonging in the digital era. Specifically, through privileging the stories of everyday people, she seeks to understand how individuals navigate the racial, gender, and sexual politics of digital and urban landscapes in their search for intimacy and community. As a queer woman of color scholar, Dominique is especially invested in mapping the contours of placemaking among racialized and gendered sexual minorities, the subject of her dissertation project. She lives in the Metro Detroit area with her wife and many houseplants.