Journalism + Public Writing
Virtues of the Inauthentic
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Best Scholarly Books of 2023
January 5, 2024
The Stars are Hollow: On Gilmore Girls as Normporn
Literary Hub
November 22, 2023
Karen Tongson’s Diaspora Jukebox Playlist
Zócalo Public Square
November 9, 2023
Intermezzo
air/light magazine
Summer & Fall 2023
“It Might Be You” Brings Tootsie’s Queer Potential to the Surface
Criterion Collection Songbook Series
November 22, 2021
A Chair Reviews The Chair
Slate
August 20, 2021
Reading Askew, or the Benefits of Distraction
ASAP/J
May 31, 2021
Remote Intimacy: Popular Music Conversations in the Covid Era
Journal of Popular Music Studies
March 1, 2021
Queerness in the Digital Age: A Scholarly Roundtable
The Velvet Light Trap
Fall 2020
Red Hats
Air/Light - Special Section on “Bad Medicine: Responses to an Unfinished Election”
November 5, 2020
The Smallest Refusals
LARB - Los Angeles Review of Books
August 13, 2020
A Take on Takes on Takes, or the Function of Criticism in the Present Time
LARB - Los Angeles Review of Books
August 11, 2020
The Countermelodies that Changed Us: A Lifetime of Loving Indigo Girls
NPR Music
May 21, 2020
9 to 5 for 15 Films Every Queer Movie Lover Should See
Out magazine, edited by Tre’vell Anderson
January 13, 2019
Remembering the Carpenters
Playbill for Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s Lincoln Center performance of Down on Creation: On Top of the World with the Carpenters
February 15, 2018
Farewell to Legendary Bar the Smog Cutter, Gentrification’s Latest Victim
L.A. Weekly
October 27, 2017
Cover Me: Real Entertainment in the Trump Era
Society & Space
January 30, 2017
Whiteness and Promises: Echoes of Karen Carpenter
BuzzFeed Reader
May 9, 2017
The Book that Made Me Gay: Martina
Public Books
March 6, 2017
Antiheroic Feminism: An Interview with UnREAL co-creator, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Public Books
June 2, 2016
Guest Editor, Virtual Roundtable on UnREAL” with essays by Lynne Joyrich, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Hunter Hargraves and Homay King
Public Books, June 2, 2016
Triggers and Lions and Vegans, Oh My! an extended written debate about food practices with early modern scholar (and vegan), Will Stockton
Bully Bloggers
August 25, 2015
#Normporn
Public Books
August 1, 2015
Karaoke and Ventriloquism: Echoes and Divergences co-authored with Sarah Kessler
Sounding Out!: A Sound Studies Online Journal
May 12, 2014
No More of the Same: A Response to the Responses - after unprecedented traffic, and hostile “trolling” on the NYU Press blog in response to my article on Macklemore on From the Square: NYU Press Blog - June 13, 2013 - “Same Love, Same Old Shit?,” on Macklemore’s pro-gay marriage pop hit, “Same Love”
From the Square: NYU Press Blog
June 10, 2013
"Same Love," Same Old Shit? From the Square: NYU Press Blog
June 10, 2013
The Ugly Truth About Why The Kids are All Right - co-authored with Jasbir Puar
Velvet Park: Dyke Culture in Bloom
January 20, 2012, originally posted on Oh! Industry, August 2010
Earworms, Touchstones, Inversions (guest article)
Confessions of an Aca-Fan
August 10, 2011
Smog and Sympathy (guest article)
You Offend Me, You Offend My Family
June 8, 2011
Hearing Queerly: NBC’s The Voice for
Sounding Out!: A Sound Studies
Online Journal
May 16, 2011
An Interview with the ALOTR: Karen Tongson, Christine Bacareza Balance, and Alexandra Vazquez
The Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures