Clare Forstie is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department at Northwestern University, a member of the interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Cluster, and a University Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research interests include the sociology of gender and sexuality, community, identities, emotions, technology, and space and place, as well as queer and feminist theories and methodologies. Her dissertation articulates the relationship between communities, friendships, and identities, in particular, gender and sexuality.