Academic writing
The Anti-Trans Backlash
(2026) Carceral diagonalism: the punitive safety politics linking left and right transnational anti-gender mobilisations. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 51 (3); 595-620.
(2025) Misinformation in the ‘gender wars’ in Britain: affective attachments in the use and misuse of evidence. In: Browne, K. and Kazyak, E. (eds.) Polarising Sexualities & Genders: Divisions, Differences and LGBTQIA+ Equalities, London, UK: Bloomsbury, p. 137-156
(2024) Confronting complex alliances: Situating Britain’s gender-critical politics within the wider transnational anti-gender movement. Journal of Lesbian Studies. 28 (3): 504-517
(2023) Sexual peril and dangerous others: the moral economies of the trans prisoner policy debates in England and Wales. Sexualities 28 (1-2) 492-513.
(2019) Why context matters in the trans prisoner policy debates. Critical Legal Thinking.
Police and Prison Abolition
(2023) Defund – not defend – the police: a response to Fleetwood and Lea. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 62 (2): 277-282. Co-authored with Megan McElhone, Tom Kemp, and J.M. Moore.
(2023) Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change?. Institute of Race Relations News. Co-authored with McElhone, Megan
(2023) Reflections on disability, justice, and abolition. feminists@law 12 (1), pp. 1-8.
(2022) Bridging the gap between reformists and abolitionists: can non-reformist reforms guide the work of prison inspectorates?. World Prison Brief.
(2014) Queer investments in punishment: sexual citizenship, social movements and the expanding carceral state. In: Haritaworn, J. and Kuntsman, A. and Posocco, Silvia (eds.) Queer Necropolitics. Social Justice. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 151-171.
(2014) The marketisation of prison alternatives. Criminal Justice Matters 97 (1), pp. 14-15.
(2013) The quiet dangers of civilized rage: surveying the punitive aftermath of England's 2011 riots. South Atlantic Quarterly 112 (3), pp. 577-585.
(2013) Queer necropolitics and the expanding carceral state: interrogating sexual investments in punishment. Law and Critique 24 (3), pp. 229-253.
(2012) Rethinking gendered prison policies: impacts on transgender prisoners. ECAN Bulletin (16), pp. 7-12.
Queer Theory / Queer Politics
(2021) Queer theory and socio-legal studies. In: Valverde, M. and Clarke, K.M. and Darian Smith, E. and Kotiswaran, P. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society. Routledge, p. 53-38.
(2020) Guest Editorial: Queer theory and criminology. Criminology & Criminal Justice 20 (5), pp. 504-509. ISSN 1748-8958. Co-authored with Tanya Serisier, Alex Dymock, Nicola Carr, Leigh Downes and Avi Boukli.
(2015) Queer desires and critical pedagogies in higher education: reflections on the transformative potential of non-normative learning desires in the classroom. Journal of Feminist Scholarship 7, pp. 61-77. Co-authored with Jennifer Fraser.
(2009) Unknowable bodies, unthinkable sexualities: lesbian and transgender legal invisibility in the Toronto women's bathhouse raid. Social & Legal Studies 18 (1), pp. 111-130.
(2008) Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance. Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC 5 (1), pp. 24-42.
Activism, Social Movements, and Resistance
(2020) Unpalatable dissent and the political distribution of solidarity. Law, Culture and the Humanities 16 (2), pp. 213-225.
(2016) Community. In: Fritsch, K. and O'Connor, C. and Thompson, A.K. (eds.) Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. Chico, U.S.: AK Press. pp. 103-110.
(2011) Liabilities of queer anti-racist critique.Feminist Legal Studies 19 (2), pp. 107-118. Co-authored with Stacy Douglas and Suhraiya Jivraj.
(2011) Queer anti-racist activism and strategies of critique: a roundtable discussion. Feminist Legal Studies 19 (2), pp. 169-191. Co-authored with Tamsila Tauqir, Jennifer Petzen, Jin Haritaworn, Sokari Ekine, Sarah Bracke, Suhraiya Jivraj and Stacy Douglas.
(2001) Visible bodies, invisible demands: de-examining the participation of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution. Feminist Voices/voix Feminists 12, pp. 46-58.