Portfolio
Research & Reports
A Blueprint for Trans and Non-binary Sexual Health and Liberation
Designed as a blueprint for community activists, policymakers, health care and social service providers, and funders, this report identifies barriers to an ideal world where trans and non-binary people are in control of their sexual health and proposes solutions to remove those barriers following an 18-month community research project. The report is available in English and Spanish.
HIV Testing among the MSM Group in Bulgaria
This report is an analysis of results from the #endHIVbg pilot initiative which Single Step Foundation and partners executed. It focused on Bulgarian men who have sex with men (MSM) and trans people (a small proportion of all participants) and introduced free home tests for detecting HIV antibodies.
Digital Content
Disability Justice is LGBT Justice: A Conversation with Movement Leaders
This podcast was recorded in July 2014, following the first White House panel on LGBT and disability issues in June of that year. The discussion features three advocates for LGBT and disability justice: Allie Cannington, Dylan Orr, and the late Ki’tay Davidson. Emmett Patterson, a former intern with the LGBT Research and Communications Project, led the discussion.
On This Cutting Board: Cooking with Chronic Illness
This support page focuses on low-inflammation recipes, cooking pain management techniques, and making adaptable kitchen spaces for home cooks with chronic illness and disabilities.
Training Materials
LGBTQI Cultural Humility
This training was developed for the Harm Reduction Coalition’s Harm Reduction Educators training curriculum. This module focuses on sociocultural factors that impact LGBTQI people who use drugs or engage in sex work and train on culturally responsive techniques to support LGBTQI people who access harm reduction services.
The System Makes Me Sick
This module is an introduction course developed for local D.C. universities on the theory of structural violence and centers on the experience of trans people living in U.S. healthcare systems. Students of the course map out how violence impacts trans health over the course of the training.
Writing
Most recent pieces are available here.
Amy Coney Barrett is a threat to the ACA—and the Trans and Disabled People Who Depend on It, TheBody, 2020.
“Not Your Average Sex Talk,” essay chapter in Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, 2020.
Hepatitis A, Preventable By a Vaccine, Is Spreading Among Gay, Bi, and Trans People, TheBody, 2019.
Let’s Talk About (Gay) Sex, The Advocate, 2019.
This Isn’t Just Research, It’s Our Lives: Centering Trans Stories in HIV Treatment and Prevention, TheBody, 2016.
“Dyspnea,” short story, Chelsea Station, 2016.
“war,” short story, TQ Review, 2016.
Sex Talks for Those Who Never Got One, Point Foundation, 2015.
Press Coverage
Self-testing for HIV at home–successful project in Bulgaria, World Health Organization, 2020.
Just Sex Podcast, 2019.
My Story by Single Step Foundation, 2019.
A foundation offers a free home test for HIV, NOVA TV, 2019.
PrEP Works by PrEPster, 2018.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Two Alums Promote Sex Education for LGBTQ Youth, American University News, 2018.
Sex ed at school is failing kids–so they’re taking matters into their own hands, POPSUGAR, 2017.
Under Sexed, Metro Weekly, 2017.
Not Your Average by McKinnon deKupyer, 2015.