WRITING
My best WORK
On the black church and HIV (The New York Times); on #MeToo, midterms, and changing sex ed laws (KHN); on America's beleaguered Public Health Service (Undark); on transgender healthcare as primary care (The Atlantic) vs. medical specialty (HuffPo); on getting gender identity into electronic health records (Wired); on being a transgender cop in small-town Georgia (AJC); on challenges to expanding telemedicine for rural transgender folk (NPR); on talking about Zika without stigmatizing disability (Dallas News); on the tiniest, witchiest theme park in Slovenia (Atlas Obscura); on why Cuba's HIV rates are rising (Vice); on condoms in porn (Stat) and a California proposition to require them (Vice).
Also good
2019
On peer mentorship and HIV stigma (Undark); on the science of marijuana's effects on female libido, anonymous genetic testing, and Walmart's foray into rural mental health care (Medium); on the federal insurance discrimination lawsuit that could change trans health access in the Southeast (KHN); on Atlanta's first urban food forest (Atlanta Magazine); on the rural relevance of Georgia's legal challenges to transgender health insurance exclusions (NPR).
2018
2018
On LGBTQ girls' increased risk of pregnancy and doing the math on transgender murders (CHJ); on physician refusals of transgender patients and telemedicine's expansion of access to care for transgender folk (Vice); on digital detox/non-tox (Woolly); on an Atlanta neighborhood's gem of a history center (Atlanta Magazine).
On LGBTQ girls' increased risk of pregnancy and doing the math on transgender murders (CHJ); on physician refusals of transgender patients and telemedicine's expansion of access to care for transgender folk (Vice); on digital detox/non-tox (Woolly); on an Atlanta neighborhood's gem of a history center (Atlanta Magazine).
2017
On FDA approval of generic PrEP, fertility issues while trans, and how medical education is changing transgender healthcare (Vice); on other diagnoses doctors should consider during an Ebola panic (Medscape); on the lifesaving potential of syringe/needle exchanges (GHN); on pulling doctor privilege (Medium); on covering transgender health as a straight girl (CHJ); on kosher haggis (Roads & Kingdoms).
2016
On a game-changing new typhoid vaccine (Medscape); on circumambulating a Scottish Isle (Paste); on doctors' waning patience for perpetual recertification requirements and Wisconsin's mysterious Elizabethkingia outbreak (STAT); on climate change and the rise of flesh-eating infections (Dallas News); on doctors who don't prescribe PrEP, America's stratospherically high homophobia levels, and Hawaii's dengue-friendly shores (Vice).
2015
On the wildly persuasive elective IV business (Vice News) and why doctors should go bare below the elbows (Canada's National Post).