Writing

TEACHING AND LEARNING

• Anthropology for Everyone: On anthropological pedagogy and learning from our students.
• Our New York: A collective ethnography, created by and for CUNY students; I created the scaffolding text.

Curationist

WOMEN ARTIST SERIES

• Women Artists and the Museum
• Women Artists and the Divine
• Women Artists and Powerful Patrons
• Women Artists: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Care
• Women Artists, The Enlightenment, and Extraction
• Women Artists, Modernity, and Modernity
• Women Artists and 20th Century Movements

Editorial Features

• Protection from the Evil Eye
• Goddess Hariti: The Joy and Terror of Childbirth
• Hair and Makeup in Ancient Egypt
• Female Fertility Figures in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Women’s Reflections in Renaissance and Modern European Painting
• The Learned Courtesan in Edo Japan
• Iron Women: Ancient to Early Modern Women in Armor
• Fayum Portraits
• Art of the Atomic Bomb
• The Dutch East India Company’s Colonial Trade and Plunder
• Swords that Tell Stories: Plunder and Trade from India to Europe
• Martial Goddesses and Warrior Queens
• Firearms Enter the Picture: Guns and Their Representation Before 1600
• Painting with Jade in Qing-Dynasty China
• Chinese Landscape Painting: At the Orchid Pavilion
• Maya Deities and Nobles in Living Jade
• How Chocolate Reached the Eastern Hemisphere
• Race and the Pop Culture Cowboy

Curated Collections

Paan Cultures, Fertility Talismans, Mummified Cats, Colonial Allegories, Apothecary Jars/Albarelli, South Asian Textiles on the Maritime Silk Route, Akua ba

REwire news group

• Meet the Children of LGBTQ+ Parents Who Are Reclaiming the Narrative
• How the Children of LGBTQ+ Parents Protect Each Other in the Face of Discrimination

POPSUGAR

• Getting Into Drag With the Stars of “We’re Here” Proves Queerness Is Always Political

YES!

• The Wisdom of Fungi Inspires Community Conservation

The BBC

• The Risks of Coming Out at Work
• Why LGBTQ Couples Split Household Tasks More Equally

Civicstory

• The NJ Groups Building Intergenerational LGBTQ Community Outdoors

Atlas Obscura

Gender, Sexuality, and Food History

• Virginia Woolf and the Complexities of Cottage Loaf
• The Messy History of Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake
• This Project Maps 25 Years of New York’s Lesbian Nightlife
• This Writer is Tweeting Everything Sylvia Plath Ever Ate
• Eat like Jane Austen With Recipes from Her Sister-In-Law’s Cookbook
• How Lesbian Potlucks Nourished the LGBTQ Movement
• The Return of Japan’s Female Sake Brewers
• The Founder of America’s Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported For Obscenity
• The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America
• The Girl Who Jumped Out of a Pie And Into a Gilded Age Morality Tale
• When American Waitresses Were Labeled ‘Women of Ill Repute’
• The Scholar Mapping America’s Forgotten Feminist Restaurants

ArcHIVAL RECIPES

• Help Curate This Vast Trove of Kitchen-Table Remedies
• The Museum Treating Home Cooking as Fine Art
• A Database of 5,000 Historic Cookbooks Is Now Online, And You Can Help Improve It
• The Chef Recreating 18th-Century Recipes from a Thrift-Shop Find
• The 1700s Plague Cure That Inspired an Uncannily Contemporary Cocktail Recipe

Food Cultures

• How to Recreate Your Lost Family Recipes, According To Historians And Chefs
• The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine
• A Historic Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad
• How a Black-Owned 19th-Century Tavern Became the Birthplace of a Beloved Cookie
• In Canada, Gold-Rush Era Garbage Reveals a History of Chinese Immigrant Cuisine
• The Culinary Legacy of Brooklyn’s First Free Black Community
• Taste the Globe With Recipes from New York’s All-Grandma Kitchen Crew
• The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places
• The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian Forest
• Eat Like a 1970s Radical With ‘The People’s Philadelphia Cookbook’
• When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil
• American School Lunch is Becoming More Diverse, Like it Was in The 1910s
• Australia’s Growing Camel Meat Trade Reveals a Hidden History of Early Muslim Migrants
• A Pirate Botanist Helped Bring Hot Chocolate to England
• The Refugee Women Turning Tastes of Home into a Food Delivery Business
• The Tuscan Town Famous for Anarchists, Marble, and Lard

Indigenous Food and Agriculture

• Feast on This Guide to Modern Māori Cooking
• In Sydney, a Cafe Serving Aboriginal Food Brings Comfort and Challenges
• The Chef Bringing Native American Flavors to Communities in Quarantine
• Australian Wildfires Uncovered Hidden Sections of a Huge, Ancient Aquaculture System
• The Restaurant Putting India’s Tribal Cuisine Back on the Menu
• How Aboriginal Hunting and ‘Cool Burns’ Prevent Australian Wildfires
• How to Feed a Megacity Like the Aztecs

Agriculture, Ecology, and Sustainability

• Go Beyond the Grocery Store with These Seven Innovative Seed Companies
• The Newest Addition To Denmark’s Happiness Museum: Tomato Seeds
• A Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops
• Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables
• How to Plant a Home Garden and “Free the Seed”
• These 7 Companies Ship Unique Seeds for Your Quarantine Garden
• Keep Your Quarantine Garden Growing With These 8 Unique Seed Companies
• 400 Years After Its First Apple Farm, Boston Remains an Urban Orchard
• Celebrate the Farm Workers Behind Your Favorite Thanksgiving Sides
• On the Hunt for the Wild Relatives of America’s Favorite Produce
• After Hurricane Katrina, Home Gardeners Saved New Orleans’ Iconic Squash
• The Swap-a-Fish Program That Traded Tilapia for Seafood Contaminated By Agent Orange
• In Zambia, A Craze for a Traditional Treat is Endangering Wild Orchids
• Solved: The Mysterious Origins of Your Coffee’s Worst Nightmare
• Found: Slime-Covered Notebooks Full of Conservation Data and Fish Scales
• The Sake Master Reviving a Long-Forgotten Local Rice

Culture and Power

• What Should You do With a Captured Nazi Flag?
• These Powerful Pins Honored Suffragists Who Were ‘Jailed For Freedom’
• When Indian Hosts Opened Their Homes to Pakistani Cricket Fans

Teen Vogue

• Why Bisexual Women are At a Higher Risk of Violence
• Here’s How Street Harassment Affects Women’s Mental Health

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK

• “Gender Studies Taught Me What it Feels Like To Be Unionized,” in Cornell University Press’s 2021 Millennial Feminism at Work

• “Is there a Gray Zone in Consent?”, originally published in Feministing; republished in Greenhaven Publishing’s 2020 Sexual Consent

CRITICAL COLLECTIVE

• Begums, Buddies, and Bandits: Imaging Queer Histories and Imagining Queer Futures in Dedh Ishqiya, 2016

• Seeking Sunny Leone: A Journey Through the Digital Erotic, 2016

Swell

Healing

• A Guide and an Ode to Leaving A Relationship
• How Trauma Affects Your Body — And How Your Body Protects You
• How to Deal With Bi Erasure
• Is Casual Sex for Me?
• The Pleasure And Peril of Being Sexually Vulnerable
• How to Reclaim Your Sexuality After Trauma
• How Affirmative Consent Can Up Your Massage Game
• What is “Skin Hunger”?
• A Low-Grade Fever: On Aziz Ansari’s Comeback Netflix Special

Healthy Relationships

• How to Make Peace With Your Jealousy
• What to Do When You Hurt Your Partner
• Tips on Queer Dating When You Come Out Later in Life
• Practicing Solidarity in Our Intimate Lives
• Supporting a Partner With Mental Illness
• When Is It Okay To Get Back Together With An Ex?
• How to Be a Good Friend (And What to Look for in Others)
• A Guide to Respectful NSA Sex
• When Is a Couple’s Age Difference Too Much?
• How to Tell if Polyamory is Really for You
• How to Deal With Rejection

Hot Sex

• The Art of Gifting a Sex Toy
• A Guide to Learning What Turns You On
• How to Overcome Masturbation Shame
• Comfort Sex: Why It’s Great and How to Do It
• How to Orgasm Without Being Touched
• Sexy Self-Love if You’re Single This Snuggle Season
• A Complete Guide to Post-Sex Cleanup
• How to Spend Valentine’s Day If You’re Single
• Our Favorite Porn That’s Both Sexy and Ethical
• How to Master Affirmative Consent (It’s Hot, We Promise)

The Lily/The Washington Post

• Lesbian Bars are Disappearing. We Spent the Night at One That’s Still Standing.
• Why Monogamy’s Not for Me
• “Don’t Date the Locals” Is Horrible Advice

The Freelancer’s Union

• How Freelancing Can Improve Your Dating Life (And Vice Versa)

The Talkspace Voice

Mental Health and Movements

• Wellness in a World on Fire: Therapy Tackles Climate Change
• Why You Shouldn’t Call The Police When Someone Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
• Therapy Is Political. It’s High Time Therapists Acknowledge This.
• The COVID-19 Eviction Wave Is a Mental Health Crisis
• Investing in Community Well-being On World Mental Health Day
• How to Spot—And Heal From—Political Burnout
• Why This Election is Not “Just” Politics
• Mental Wellness and the Black Lives Matter Movement
• What Do Liberty and Justice Mean?
• How to Keep Your Cool—And Make a Difference—This Election Season
• Black Lives Matter: Mental Health Resources For and By People of Color
• The State of Our Society: Health and Inequality During COVID-19
• The State of Our Families: Dispatches on Family During COVID-19
• The State of Our Relationships: Dispatches on Intimacy During COVID-19
• The State of Our Careers: Dispatches on Work During COVID-19
• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Dire Need for a Mental Health Safety Net
• How Mental Health Activists Are Fighting Racism

Trauma and Healing

• How Trauma Changes Our Relationships
• Why Are Bisexual Women At A Higher Risk of Substance Abuse?
• Rape is an Economic Crime
• Can Abusers Change?
• Staying Safe When Socially Distancing With an Abuser
• What You Need to Know About Dating an Intimate Partner Violence Survivor
• Why Doesn’t My Friend Leave Their Abusive Partner—And How Can I Help?
• Dealing with Complicated Feelings Around Abusers
• One Year After #MeToo
• My Abusive Partner Promises They’ll Change. Will They?
• How Men Can Confront Toxic Masculinity
• How Psychology Stigmatized Female Orgasm (And How We Got it Back)

Self-Care and Relationships

• How to Make Long Term Plans in a Crisis
• How Resilient People Found Hope in 2020—And How You Can, Too
• 25 Years of Intuitive Eating
• How To Talk To a New Partner About COVID-19 Risk
• How To Tell Someone You’re Not Interested
• Why is Talking About Looks Damaging to Mental Health?

Time

• Harvard’s Exclusive Clubs Reflect the School’s Problems with Race, Class, and Gender

Coax

• The Most Brilliant Woman in the Room 
• Experiencing Imposter Syndrome? That’s Probably Because You’re an Imposter 

Feministing

• #MeToo, Ansari, and the Difficult Question of Justice
• No, the #MeToo Movement is Not About Women “Playing the Victim”
• Is #MeToo a Moral Panic? Not if We’re Clear About Our Values
• What I Would Have Said to You Last Night Had You Not Cum and then Fallen Asleep
• Why Should Feminists Be Against the Sex Offender Registry?
• Romantic Love is a Patriarchal Conspiracy, According to New Melissa McCarthy Film
• Fucking with Feministing: No Hard-on? No Problem!
• Who Gets to be Naked at Harvard University?
• Rape Culture is a Contract We Never Actually Signed
• Let’s Talk About Intimate Partner Violence in Queer Communities
• What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Obesity

Bitch

• Pro-Choice for Christ

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• Why Are There So Many LGBT Youth in Prison?

The Ladies Finger

• Pink’s Right. Sometimes You Just Want to Clock a Man With a Beer Bottle.