Archive - Sad Brown Girl

The Logic of Protection

The fantasy that love is enough shrinks pro-trans politics down to nothing.

Apr 17 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

March 2024

The Un-importance of Wearing Clothes

...and the problem of "social transition" as a private right.

Mar 6 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

February 2024

Detransition is a Mythology

(for Readers of the New York Times)

Feb 6 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

May 2023

Transgender Compromise

The Right and the Architects of Trans Inclusion Agree that Trans Girls Can't Play

May 3, 2023 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

February 2023

The Left Hand of the Law

Anti-Drag Law, the Police, and Trans Political Imagination

Feb 27, 2023 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

December 2022

Toward a Trans History of Abortion

Letting go of the analogy between transition and abortion also tells a better story of trans men and women's shared struggles--and differences.

Dec 21, 2022 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

July 2022

Camp and the Millionth Age of Gay Panic

Homer Simpson Will Always Be My Susan Sontag.

Jul 9, 2022 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

June 2022

March 2022

When I Reclaim My Spirit, I Am Not Your Tragedy

For the love of femininity and against the spectacle of trans women and children's suffering.

Mar 23, 2022 •

Jules Gill-Peterson

February 2022

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