My research investigates how social change is created and how social identity categories are created and resisted. In addition to my books, you can find my academic writing here:
Academic Articles:
“Wear Your Most Daring Clothes, Honey” – The Transvestite/Transsexual Legal Committee and the Emergence of Trans Feminine Feminist Movements in the Midwest, Feminist Studies – Winner of the 2024 Audre Lorde Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association
Making Pictures: Nonbinary Praxis in Leslie Feinberg’s “Screened-In” Photography Series, Women’s Studies Quarterly
The Afterward: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson in the Medieval Imaginary, co- authored with Nicholas Hoffman, Medieval Feminist Forum
Book chapters:
Girls and Boys: Minneapolis Drag and Transgender Culture Under Prince’s Cherry Moon, Iconic: Drag Celebrity & Queer Community, University of Delaware Press (Forthcoming)
When Were You Mine? Prince’s Legacy in the Context of Transgender History, Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life, Bloomsburg Press
Bad Penny: Trauma, War, and Trans Identity, Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Illness, Oxford University Press
Public History Exhibits:
Joy Michael Ellison 