Other writing

Essays and Articles

"Come As You Are: Sex, Race, and Writing in F/F Slash Fan Fiction Communities,” Transformative Works and Culture (September 15, 2025)

“This Isn’t the First Time Conservatives Have Banned Crossdressing in America,” Jacobin (March 15, 2023)

“Never Tell a Psychopath They’re a Psychopath: Defamiliarizing the Queer Psychopath in Killing Eve,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (2023), vol 12, no. 3

“Centering Slavery in Nineteenth Century Queer History,” in Routledge History of Queer America, edited by Don Romesberg (New York: Routledge, 2018)

“A Queer Exemption? What Trump’s Presidency Means for LGBTQ Politics,” in The Possible Futures of the US Under Trump (Social Justice, 2017)

“Introduction: Sexuality, Criminalization and Social Control,” Social Justice (2011), vol 37, no 1: 1-6

“Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak-Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco,” Women’s Studies Quarterly (2008), vol 36, nos 3-4: 170-187

Reprinted in Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura (eds), Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2 (Routledge 2013) and in Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston (eds), Transgender Studies Remix (Routledge, 2022)

“All that Glitters: Tran-sing California’s Gold Rush Migrations,” GLQ: A Journal in Lesbian and Gay Studies (2008), vol 14, nos 2-3: 383-402

“A Tremendous Sensation:” Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth Century San Francisco Press.” In News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity, edited by Laura Casteñada and Shannon Campbell (Thousand Oaks: Sage Press, 2005)

Fiction

“How You Enter,” Michigan Quarterly Review (2023), vol 62, no. 4) 630-64

“A Woman, Once,” The Jarnal III: Transitions, edited by Tara Campbell (Baltimore: Mason Jar Press, 2023.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

“Transing Husbands, Transing Histories,” American Historical Review (2022), vol 127, no 1: 426-428

“Crossdressing, History of,” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn (Thousand Oaks: Sage Press, 2021)

“The Queer Project of Criminology,” Sexualities (2021), vol 24, nos 1-2: 298-300

“Criminalizing Queers,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2013), vol 19, no 1: 128-130