Jules Gill-Peterson

Jules Gill-Peterson is US-based writer, activist, and the author of the award-winning book Histories of the Transgender Child , published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly , the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with interviews in outlets from NPR, to ABC, to New York magazine. She...See more

Jules Gill-Peterson is US-based writer, activist, and the author of the award-winning book Histories of the Transgender Child , published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly , the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with interviews in outlets from NPR, to ABC, to New York magazine. She was profiled by the Guardian and published an op-ed on trans kids in the New York Times in 2021. She has also written for the New Inquiry , Jewish Currents , the Baffler , the Funambulist , Parapraxis , and more. Gill-Peterson is the cohost of Outward , Slate's LGBT podcast, and a member of the Death Panel podcast. She is also the narrator of the award-winning documentary Framing Agnes (dir. Chase Joynt, 2022), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. See less