Shannon's Queerest Space

Promoting Genderqueer, Transgender, Youth Rights, Social Justice, and Other Radicalness Since 1999

Writings on Transgender and Other Stuff

Here are the things i've published that are online:

 "From a Volunteer who Works with Children," Open Letters to KRXQ Sacramento, June 5, 2009 (available via password only).

"Singing for a Cause: Social Justice and Choral Singers," Chorus America Singer Network, January 9, 2009.
"Think Before You Speak," Bay Area Reporter, April 3, 2008 .  p. 6.
"Reparative in Reverse," The Washington Blade, August 18, 2006.  p. 28. 
"Don't Blame Gays for Marriage Fight," The Washington Blade, May 7, 2004.
 "HMS is saving at-risk youth," The New York Blade, October 3, 2003 (letter-to-the-editor that is at the bottom of the page).
 "Gender Non-Conforming Youth and Sexual Assault," The Survivor Project, 2002.
 "To Research or to Rescue: What's a Radical Queer Academic to Do?," The Laughing Medusa, 2001.
 "Finding Voice: Confronting Anti-Trans Hatred," The Laughing Medusa, Spring 2000.
 "This Wasn't Supposed To Be About ME!," The Laughing Medusa, Spring 2000. (Unfortunately, this article is formatted as being "one" with the previous one. At the very bottom of the first column is the heading for this article, the text of which starts at the very top of the second column.)
 "True Spirit Conference: Facing Lesbian and Feminist Transphobia," The Laughing Medusa, Spring 1999.



My publications that aren't online:

 "Sometimes Boy, Sometimes Girl:  Learning to be Genderqueer through a Child's Eyes," Trans/Forming Feminisms:  Transfeminist Voices Speak Out, ed. Krista Scott-Dixon.  Toronto:  Sumach Press, 2006. p. 58-64.
 "We Don't Own King's Legacy," The Washington Blade, March 3, 2006.  p. 30.
 " 'This Was My Hell': The Violence Experienced by Gender Non-Conforming Youth in US High Schools," The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, September/October 2004. p. 709-730.
 Book Review of Mary Pernal's Explorations on Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities. Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 27, no. 1, January-February, 2004.  p. 91-92.


Interested in any of these papers? Please drop me a line at hugdyke @ gmail.com. All papers, except for those that are already online, are available in .pdf format as an e-mail attachment.

Please be sure to include the title of which paper(s) you'd like to read. Also note that i will not send you the paper immediately and will send it in .PDF format. Partly this is because i'm really busy and am not always very prompt about my e-mail replies. However, it's also because there's too much internet plagiarism going on out there. You should, of course, feel free to cite my papers in your own writings. But if you're thinking of having me e-mail a paper to you that you can use as your own work for a college class: Forget it! Do your own homework!

I'd love to get your feedback on what i've written, particularly if you yourself are trans-identified or otherwise gender non-conforming. Do you think i'm on target or way off base? I'm interested in any possible dialog. Thanks!