Selected Academic Writing

Below are links to some of my writing in academic journals. I’m very proud of this work and realize that library paywalls prevent most people from accessing it. If you’d like to read some of these articles but don’t have adequate library access, please message me via the Contact form and I’ll be glad to share a copy with you. Scholarship is for everyone.

Silhouette of a pregnant woman standing in front of a sheer curtain with a city view outside.

Trans Women As Pregnant Women: A Story of Two Technologies

A surgeon in scrubs, mask, and gloves operates in an operating room with surgical lights overhead.
A person wearing blue gloves and a face mask holds a small wooden cross with a chain, likely a rosary, in a well-lit indoor space.

Not Here: Catholic Hospital Systems and the Restriction Against Transgender Healthcare

A woman wearing a blue surgical cap and gloves with marked facial surgery lines on her cheek, chin, and forehead.
A heart-shaped seashell with a black background and the text 'Joani Blank Editor' at the bottom.

Anatomical Authorities: On the Epistemological Exclusion of Trans- Surgical Patients.

A man with glasses in a lab, examining skulls on shelves behind him.

Description of Sex Difference as Prescription for Sex Change

Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment

A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States

A medical professional in blue scrubs and gloves preparing for a procedure with a patient lying on an examination table with legs raised.
A yellow caliper for measuring the Golden Mean
Cover of a journal titled 'TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly', with a close-up of a green plant leaf with a pink woven stitch detail, indicating a surgery or medical theme, and text indicating it is the 'Surgery Issue' from May 2018.
X-ray image of a human body showing bones and internal structures.

It Is As It Does: Form and Function in Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery

Formations of Femininity: Science and Aesthetics in Facial Feminization Surgery

TSQ: The Surgery Issue, co-edited with C Straayer

Centering Transgender Individuals In Forensic Anthropology