Monday, September 4, 2017

Call-Out Culture, Identity Politics, Political Correctness, and Social Justice Activism: essays and a new lecture

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I have written extensively about these interrelated and highly debated topics. In this post, I compile these essays (see links below), and...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Balancing activism, "free speech" & "call-out culture"

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Last week, I published an essay called Refusing to Tolerate Intolerance , which makes the case that we must challenge and refuse to tolerate...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

my music on Bandcamp - special offer!

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Tomorrow (Friday, August 3rd), Bandcamp is donating 100% of their profits to the Transgender Law Center  (a wonderful organization). So I ...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Lies about Transgender People and the Vagina Monologues

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This is one in a series of essays exposing falsehoods forwarded by feminists who are suspicious of or antagonistic toward transgender people...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

why my piece won’t be appearing in The Stranger

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On Wednesday, June 28th, the Seattle news outlet The Stranger published an article called The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

stop pitting detransitoners against happily transitioned people

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NOTE: If you are looking for a more recent and thorough take on this subject, in July 2023, I published Spotting Anti-Trans Media Bias on De...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

trans women are women! plus free book chapters & a NY Times interview

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Yesterday I sent out my latest email update - you can read it via the link and/or sign up for my email list here . Here are some of the h...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

my first patron-requested post on Patreon!

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As you may (or may not) know, last year I joined the crowdfunding site Patreon . People who support me there (for as little as $1 per month)...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

regarding that transracial/transgender Hypatia article & accusations of "witch hunts"

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As some of you may know by now, about a month or so ago, the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia published an article by Rachel Tuvel calle...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Outspoken is a Lambda Literary Award finalist!

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Earlier this week I learned that my latest book, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism , is a Lambda Literary Awa...
Monday, February 20, 2017

on Milo, the limits of free speech, and who gets thrown under the bus

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I recently published an essay on Medium called Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance . In that piece, as well as in a follow up essay I...
Friday, January 27, 2017

my San Francisco Women's March Speech

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This last weekend, I had the honor of speaking at the San Francisco Women's March . It was an amazing event with an unbelievable turnout...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

first Outspoken review! (and future excerpts, reviews, and interviews)

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As you may (or may not) know, at the end of 2016, I released my third book, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism ....
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Blaming Identity Politics & Political Correctness for Trump's Election

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I just wrote an essay called: Prejudice, “Political Correctness,” and the Normalization of Donald Trump . It is my response to all the polit...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Julia November update: my new book Outspoken is out, plus other stuff!

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A few days ago, I sent out my latest email update . The big news in it is that my third book, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

three interviews, an audiobook, and a big Outspoken sneak-peak!

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Hello, this is my first post here in a bit, as I've been in the throes of finally completing & releasing my third book, Outspoken:...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Julia update: new writings, upcoming events, & Patreon!

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So yesterday I sent out my latest email update. In it, I discuss: 1) new articles 2) Patreon 3) upcoming events 4) consider bringing me...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation (a follow up)

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If you aren't aware of it already, last week I published an essay called Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Under...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Activism, Language, and Differences of Opinion (a compilation of essays)

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[note: The essays compiled here were written between 2012–2016. My more recent writings on these and related topics are collected in  Call-...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Introducing Kat Cataclysm (aka, my fiction)

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My most recent email update came out a couple weeks ago - you can read it here . (& to get future updates, please sign up for my email l...