Taylor Stocks

Taylor Stocks is an artist, activist, and academic currently living in Ottawa, Ontario. They are completing a PhD in education at the Faculty of Education at Memorial, studying the intersection of queer-trans student activism and 2sLGBTQ+ policies in school. Taylor also raises awareness by sharing his story of living with the auto-immune disease ulcerative colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and challenges systemic and personal stigma of living with this chronic illness.

In their spare time, Taylor performs as drag king Dr. Androbox and is the only drag king in the world with an album of original drag music. In 2022, he won the title of Mr. Capital Pride on the mainstage of the National Arts Centre, after which he released his debut double EP: Play All the Parts – Fluid Ditties. You can follow Dr. Androbox on IG: @drandrobox, visit DoctorAndroBox.com, or stream his music on any platform.

Research interests: Institutional Change, Equity and Justice, Decision-Making and Governance, Education Policy, Student Activism

Publications:

Fitzpatrick, Beverly & Chong, Mike & Tuff, James & Jamil, Sana & Hariri, Khalid & Stocks, Taylor. (2024). More than words: PhD students and critical reading. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. 15. 306-322. 10.1108/SGPE-06-2023-0050.

Fitzpatrick, Beverly & Chong, Mike & Tuff, James & Jamil, Sana & Hariri, Khalid & Stocks, Taylor & Cumby, Christopher. (2021). PhD Students Learning the Process of Academic Writing: The Role of the Rhetorical Rectangle. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie. 31. 136-162. 10.31468/dwr.873.

Stocks, T. (2023). Three queeries: A response to “Queer Joy as Affective Incitement to Queer and Trans Studies in Education.” In Duran, A., Struck, K. and Schey, R. (Eds.) Bridging the rainbow gap: Possibilities and tensions in queer and trans studies in education.” (pp. 125-131). Brill.

Stocks, T., Applebaum, J & Cavanaugh, L. (2022). 2SLGBTQIA+ School Advocacy: A Policy Resource.
The ArQuives.
https://arquives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TheArQuives_SchoolAdvocacyC.pdf

Stocks, T. (2018). Assorted poetry. In For the Love of Learning (Ed.), Transversing (pp. 17–24).
St. John’s, NL: Breakwater Books.

Stocks, T. (2017). The downfalls of debate. In A. Marland and L. Moore (Eds.), Democracy cookbook:
Recipes to renew governance in Newfoundland and Labrador (pp. 235–238). St. John’s, NL: ISERBooks.

Presentations:

Policy Practitioners: The Institutional Work of 2sLGBTQ+ Student Activists, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Montreal, QC 2024

Dream-mapping as a Feminist Disability Art Method, Disability Arts and Crip Futurities Conference, Trent University, Peterborough, ON 2023

Protections and Opportunities: A Review of Provincial 2sLGBTQ+ K-12 Schooling Policies in Canada, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, ON 2023

Gender Diversity, MUN Alum 101, St. John’s, NL 2022

Sick in the Academy, Empowering Others: Carving Spaces in the Academy Queen’s University, 2021

The Unexpected Pronoun Game: Practicing Trans Friendly Language 2021

Queer Endeavour’s Educator Institute for Equity and Justice Boulder, Colorado           

Projects:

Drag Speaks Back: Combatting Myths and Misinformation through Research-Informed Art. MUN Accelerator Grant, 2024-2025.

Transgender IBD Patient Experiences in Healthcare, University of Saskatchewan, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada Research Grant, 2023-2024.

Drag PSA: Access to Washrooms with Dr. Androbox. Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Fund, City of Ottawa, 2023-2024.

Arts Innovation Strategy for Memorial University, MUN Office of Public Engagement, 2018.

St. John’s Queer Market, Rising Youth Grant, Taking IT Global, 2018.

Semester in Dialogue, Centre for Innovational in Teaching and Learning, MUN Teaching and Learning Grant, 2017.