Publications
Academic publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
“Who’s in and Who’s out of (Queer) Fashion (Studies)?” Co-authored with Roberto Filippello, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 2024.
“A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.” Co-authored with Julian Kevon Glover, Ava L. J. Kim, Tamsin Kimoto, Nathan Alexander Moore, æryka jourdaine hollis o'neil, and LaVelle Ridley, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2024.
“‘She Is as Feminine as My Sister, as My Mother, as My Biologically Female Friends’: On the Promise and Limits of Transgender Visibility in Fashion Media.” Communication, Culture and Critique, 2023.
“‘I Don’t Just Want to Look Female; I Want to Be Beautiful’: Theorizing Passing as Labor in the Transition Vlogs of Gigi Gorgeous and Natalie Wynn.” Feminist Media Studies, 2023.
“Whither Trans Studies? On Fields, Post-Disciplines, and the Need for an Applied Transgender Studies.” Co-authored with Thomas J Billard and Avery R. Everhart, Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 2022.
“Toward a Transgender Critique of Media Representation.” Co-authored with Thomas J Billard, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2022.
“Rethinking (and Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation: A Roundtable Discussion.” Co-authored with Thomas J Billard, Traci B. Abbott, Oliver L. Haimson, Kelsey N. Whipple, and Stephenson Brooks Whitestone. International Journal of Communication, 2020.
“Memoirs of a GAY! Sha: Race and gender performance on RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Studies in Costume & Performance, 2016.
Edited volumes and special issues
“Transgender Embodiment in Fashion and Beauty.” Co-edited with Roberto Filippello, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 2024.
Book chapters
“Queer and Transgender Media Studies.” Co-authored with TJ Billard, in The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, 2024.
“Social Media Influencers.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, 2021.
Book reviews
Review of Technoprecarious, by the Precarity Lab. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2024.
Review of Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, by Mia Fisher. International Journal of Communication, 2020.
Other publications
“Framing Georgia: Thinking Through the Question of Trans Visibility in Framing Agnes.” Flow, 2022.
“The radical act of invisibility on Trans Day of Visibility." Washington Post, 2022. (PDF)
“My Mother’s Daughter.” Joysauce, 2022.
“Seeing and Being Seen: Lingua Franca and Trans Asian Media Representation/Production.” Flow Journal, 2021.
“Fashion as Collective Action.” Fashion Studies Journal, 2020.
“Making Asian American Feminist Politics.” Interview with Rachel Kuo, IHDSC On the Ground, 2020.
“Kim Chi and Me.” Fashion Studies Journal, 2017.
Media appearances
“Transitions and Transformation With Erique Zhang.” Hosted by Robert Kuang, Side By Side, 2023.
“The Changing Narrative Around Transgender Characters.” By Marine Pérot, Giddy, 2022.
“BONUS: Trans Day of Visibility (and Snacks) 2022.” Hosted by Tuck Woodstock, Gender Reveal, 2022.
“The Racist Misogyny Of The Atlanta Spa Shootings.” By Brittany Wong, Huffington Post, 2021.
“Ahead Of The Met Gala, Remember: ‘You Can’t Have Camp Without Queer.’” By Erika W. Smith, Refinery29, 2019.
“Drag History, Kim Chi, & RuPaul’s Drag Race: Interview with Eric Zhang.” Interview for Unravel: A Fashion Podcast, 2017.