I write for a variety of print and online outlets, including academic journals, magazines, and history blogs:
Scholarly
- “Tales from Behind the Wall: ACT UP/Philadelphia and HIV in Prisons,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (October 2019)
- “Interchange: HIV/AIDS and U.S. History,” Journal of American History (with Jennie Brier et al, September 2017)
- “Teaching Digital Humanities with Oral History: The Staring Out to Sea Oral History Project and OHMS in the DH Classroom,” Oral History Review (Summer/Fall 2016)
Magazines
Op-Eds
- “The monkeypox outbreak reflects our failure to learn from AIDS activism,” Washington Post (August 12, 2022)
- “AIDS disappeared from public view without ending. Will covid-19 do the same?” Washington Post (June 29, 2021)
- “National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day reminds us of the deep costs of inequality,” Washington Post (February 7, 2021)
- “Years of medical abuse make Black Americans less likely to trust the coronavirus vaccine,” Washington Post (December 15, 2020)
Popular History
- “HIV/AIDS in U.S. History: A Conversation about Early Popular Histories of HIV/AIDS”, The American Historian (with Jennifer Brier, Christina Hanhardt, and Julio Capó, August 2017)
- “Silence = Death: It’s Time to Teach AIDS History,” Perspectives on History (October 2016)
- “Taking It to the Streets: AIDS, Race, and Protest in Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Legacies (Spring 2016)
Reference
- “HIV/AIDS in the United States” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Howard Chiang (Gale, 2018)
- “HIV/AIDS, Gay Communities, and the Struggle for Gay Rights” in Anonymous No More: John Fryer, Psychiatry, and the Fight for LGBT Equality (digital exhibit, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2017)
- “Civil Rights (LGBT)”, “AIDS and AIDS Activism”, and “Legionnaires’ Disease” in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, ed. Charlene Mires, Howard Gillette, and Randall Miller (2012-2016)
- “The Impact of AIDS on the Gay Rights Movement” and “The Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)” in The Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, ed. John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman (Facts on File, 2011)
Web
Black Perspectives
- Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror (February 27, 2023)
- Robert Rayford, State Violence, and AIDS in Black America (May 11, 2022)
- Why Black AIDS History Matters (February 7, 2022)
- Lil Nas X: the AIDS Activist Gen Z Needs (September 23, 2021)
- Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS (December 27, 2017)
- Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters (September 23, 2017)
- Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic (July 6, 2017)
Notches
- Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control (June 15, 2017)
- Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics (April 30, 2015)
- The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History (February 5, 2015)
- Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics (August 26, 2014)
Nursing Clio
- America Responds to Monkeypox: Learning from the History of HIV/AIDS (July 28, 2022)
- Love and Rage (March 9, 2017)
OutHistory
Process History
Public Seminar
- Teaching Through the Pandemic (April 21, 2021)
- Militancy and its Discontents (July 16, 2018)
- Bringing AIDS Home (September 18, 2017)