My ongoing research into transgender identity and the early Internet was featured prominently in the New York Times on July 31, 2021. (Paywalled) article here; feel free to email me to request a copy.

Screenshot of article by John Herrman in the New York Times. Article art by Mark Pernice.

Screenshot of article by John Herrman in the New York Times. Article art by Mark Pernice.


With a collective of other scholars and thinkers, I wrote the experimental collaborative scholarly book Technoprecarious. The Brazilian group digilabor research lab featured the book on its roundup of 20 important books on digital labor published in 2020.

Technoprecarious, authored by The Precarity Lab

Technoprecarious, authored by The Precarity Lab


I helped edit an episode of the podcast Bodies, “Not This Again,” that won a Bronze medal for Best Documentary at the 2020 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, one of the most prestigious awards in radio.

Illustration credit: Neka King

Illustration credit: Neka King


The Los Angeles Review of Books’ Podcast Review channel recommended Transcripts, the podcast I lead-produced for the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project, as one of its top five shows of the month in July 2020.

Screenshot from Podcast Review newsletter.

Screenshot from Podcast Review newsletter.


Research from my manuscript-in-progress was featured in Gizmodo’s “An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet.”

Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)

Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)


My contributions to Wikipedia’s transgender literature and media pages were featured by the WikiEdu Foundation.

Illustration: WikiEdu

Illustration: WikiEdu


Research from my American Quarterly article on drivers’ licenses, anti-blackness, and transgender studies was featured in Virginia Lawyer magazine. (I submitted my research on this subject as part of an amicus brief in the case of Stinnie v Holcomb. Read more about the case, which aims to end license suspension as a penalty for court fees, in this press release from the Legal Aid Justice Center.)

James Broccoletti photographed at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach. Photo by Deirdre Norman. Post production by Sky Noir Photography. (This image is, uh, not of me.)

James Broccoletti photographed at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach. Photo by Deirdre Norman. Post production by Sky Noir Photography. (This image is, uh, not of me.)


Penn State University’s independent student paper The Underground covered my visit and appearance on a “trans solidarity roundtable” about campus climate and transphobia (with Aren Aizura and Hilary Malatino).


My Avidly (LA Review of Books) essay on trans literature and the Scholastic YA series Animorphs was picked up by Vox’s weekly book link roundup, “a curated selection of the best writing online about books and related topics.


More coverage of my Animorphs essay, this time in The Onion’s A.V. Club.


My Nursing Clio essay about digital media and racial violence, “Pokemon Go, Before and After August 12,” was also covered (favorably, despite the website title!) by Bunk History.