My research and teaching interests include gender, sexuality, violence, transgender studies, social movements, the media, methods, and poststructuralist theory. My current projects focus on the inner workings of the sex/gender/sexuality system. I utilize a range of research methods, including textual analysis, statistical analysis, and interviews to examine how this system shapes and is shaped by understandings of violence, the practices of social movements, and the construction of sociological knowledge. 

I am the author of Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism (University of California Press, 2021), and co-editor of Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays (Routledge, 2022). My scholarship has also been published in Social Problems, Gender & Society, and Sexualities, among other journals, and has been recognized with multiple awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. I am co-founder and former co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice.