history
The Forgotten Trans Legacy of Barbara Ann Richards
Slate, March 2022
Why Did Gay Rights Take So Long?
The Atlantic, November 2022
The Uncertain Future of the Queer Beach
The Baffler, October 2022
The Untold History of Queer Foster Families
The New Yorker, February 2021
Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From
The Atlantic, June 2021
The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot
Harper's Bazaar, March 2022
The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay Rights Movement
The New Yorker, October 2021
How A 1980s AIDS Support Group Changed The Internet
OneZero, December 2020
The Forgotten Origins of Queer Media
Columbia Journalism Review, November 2020
The King of AIDS Treatments Is Turning to COVID-19
The Atlantic, April 2021
How 1970s VCR Dating Paved the Way for Tinder and Hinge
Vox, February 2021
Life in a Four-Mom Family
Slate, November 2019
The Strange History of Accidental Gay Marriage
Lapham's Quarterly, June 2019
Finding Asexuality in the Archives
Slate, March 2020
The "Born This Way" Myth
Buzzfeed Reader, June 2019
tech
Online Shopping Is Shaping Real-World Cities
WIRED, February 2022
The Great Life Insurance Rebrand
The Atlantic, July 2021
Welcome to the Link-In-Bio Economy
The Atlantic, January 2022
Container Ships Have a Size Problem
WIRED, December 2021
The Mortician Will Stream You Now
The New York Times, April 2020
Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago
WIRED, September 2020
The Digital Colonialism Behind .io and .nu
WIRED, February 2020
Death Tech Has No Rules—Yet
WIRED, January 2020
politics
How Zoning Law Entrenches the Nuclear Family
The Atlantic, May 22, 2023
How Queer People Reinvented the Beach
Them, August 21, 2023
Embrace the Awkward Silence
The Atlantic, May 3, 2023
Prenups Aren't Just for Rich People Anymore
The New Yorker, July 12, 2022
Are Paralegals the Key to Affordable Legal Advice?
The New Republic, November 22, 2022
The Case for Public Sports Ownership
Defector, December 2, 2022
The Problem With Wills
The Atlantic, May 2022
A Patriarchal Tradition That Won't Budge
The Atlantic, October 2021
Inside Washington, D.C.'s Queer Past
The New Yorker, May 2022
The Rewriting of MLK Day
Vox, January 2020
Where Do All the Unused Gift Cards Go?
The Atlantic, August 2019
No One Really Knows What to Do with All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
The Atlantic, February 2019
The Funeral Directors Deployed to America's Deadliest Disasters
Gizmodo, February 2019
economics
The Ice Cream Music Monopoly
The Hustle, October 2020
Why We Speak Starbucks
The Economist, July 2020
How to Invent a Steak
The Hustle, July 2020
The Small Town Printing Its Own Currency
The Hustle, June 2020
everything else
Life and Death Online
Hazlitt, March 2018
The Booming Business of Luxury Chicken Diapers
The Outline, July 2018
The Great American Tradition of Beard Panics
Vox, March 2020
Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance
Electric Literature, May 2018