Katherine Cross

Katherine Cross is a pizza loving feminist sociologist, trans Latina, and amateur slug herder, working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Centre. When she’s not studying or gaming she can be found at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Her blog can be found at quinnae.com and her writing has also appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Bitch Magazine, Questioning Transphobia, and Kotaku. She is a co-editor of the Border House.

D.C.’s Transgender Health-Care Victory, and What It Means

Katherine Cross

Victories in the realm of trans health care occasion so much celebration because of what health-care access can do; so many of the trans community’s immediate concerns are quite literally matters of life and death.

But Not a Drop to Drink: How Trans and Intersex Groups Struggle to Make Ends Meet

Katherine Cross

A new report from the American Jewish World Service and Global Action for Trans Equality looks at the funding landscape for trans and intersex activism. “As we’re T-specific,” said one interviewee, “it is difficult to access LGBT funding.” The irony of this should be lost on no one.

‘A Panorama of Toxicity’: On Being a Trans Woman Online

Katherine Cross

The realities of trans women’s experience with social media remind us that a discussion about "toxicity" online cannot be contained by the artificial boundaries of “Twitter feminism.” The problem is much larger than Twitter or any number of internal activist flare-ups. It encompasses the entire online world.

Katherine Cross

D.C.’s Transgender Health-Care Victory, and What It Means

But Not a Drop to Drink: How Trans and Intersex Groups Struggle to Make Ends Meet

‘A Panorama of Toxicity’: On Being a Trans Woman Online

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