Announcements!
Calls for collaborators, sources, etc.
Updated 8/2/25:
NEW! I’m working on an exciting new project with some illustrious co-conspirators, the full details of which will become evident to all, soon enough … For now, I’m interested in receiving recommendations of books written by a trans and queer authors that you feel were overlooked by the NYT book review between ~2013 - 2022 (under Pamela Paul’s leadership). If you are an author and you feel your book was overlooked, feel free to write me (or let me know on Bluesky). If you are a reader and you want to recommend a queer- or trans-authored book you adore that again the NYT did not review when it was released during this time-frame, again please feel free to let me know, either via this site or on Bluesky.
If you’re a book reviewer and you want to pitch a book to review for the aforementioned series, please pitch me via email. If you’re interested in reviewing a book: Send me a paragraph or two explaining why this book in particular (not much longer). And please include a couple of your best clips, ideally previously published book reviews. Please reach out via my contact form. This is a paid opportunity; I’m just coordinating on behalf of the publication which is offering a modest stipend per short piece (and we’ll be assigning many so please tell your friends about this too, if they’re also book reviewers). I will discuss specifics with those whose pitches we follow up with. Thank you!
I’m also soliciting stories from trans folks in the U.S. who have moved from a red state to a blue, in recent months especially. I’m aware others have moved abroad; I’m only interested in covering the domestic angle in this forthcoming potential piece. If you (and your family/partner) have moved from a red state to a blue one because of trans-related concerns and you want to share your story with me, please reach out. Just use the contact form. Please share whatever you want in your initial email, enough for me to get some sense. If you want, you can specify already that you’ll want anonymity; I’ll follow up if I want to interview you further … Right now I’m just in search of potential sources and an interested editor/publication; once I find such, I’d follow up with some who’ve reached out to me for proper interviews. Thank you, for your time and for sharing with me.
For an upcoming potential story I’m working on: I’m looking for fellow trans masc folks who’ve received endometriosis diagnoses — whether only post-hysto like me, or whenever. Please see this public thread for more info on what I’m soliciting and why. In brief, if you’re willing and generous enough to share any of your own story with me, to start: Just summarize your tale as short or as long as you like and it email it to my contact form here. (You can at any time ask to be anonymous/use a pseudonym; please just state so in your initial query if you prefer so and/or we can always discuss all such matters — if I contact you for further interview.) If I want to speak further with you, I may follow up and ask to arrange an interview (only if you want). I will try hard to respond to all these messages individually. Regardless: Know I feel great gratitude to all who share about something so intimate and vulnerable with me. This is just me beginning my research for such a story and I’m still finding the right outlet. I will interview any potential source before quoting them in any eventual story; your initial email to me is just for me to learn some.
FINALLY: I’m (still) seeking a a data journalist to co-byline with, someone whose professional focus is data sets and crunching numbers who’d be interested in collaborating with me on the data-angle of the aftermath of my viral post about cis allyship. (A decade ago, to use another example, I collaborated with two data journalists on this long, investigative feature into police violence and its disproportionately high impact on folks diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities.) I’m curious for a data-type to comb through these thousands of responses my viral thread received. Perhaps this potential collaborator is an academic, not a fellow journalist. Perhaps you focus on questions like transphobia or hate or genocide or shame already. My thought is we’d pitch in tandem … Anyway, if you are someone who would want to maybe try to work on this project with me, please reach out via my same contact form. I encourage folks to share this with anyone who may be interested… Please also see my long analysis inspired by / using many screenshots from the viral cis allyship thread … Part One. Part Two.