Harron Walker

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Articles

This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care

1 week ago | them.us | Harron Walker

Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. This piece was published in partnership with WIRED. Jules Gill-Peterson is speaking to me from the future. She’s 11 hours ahead of me when I reach her over Zoom. While I’m sniffling and congested on a rainy Wednesday evening on my side of the screen in Brooklyn, Jules is welcoming the sun on a beautiful Thursday morning, the bright blue sky of Bangkok peeking in from the window behind her.
All the Ways I Tried to Make Straight Guys Like Me

1 month ago | thecut.com | Harron Walker

Illustration: Marina Zakharova/Getty Images The store was as busy as ever that morning, which is to say not very busy at all. I never expected any more than a few dozen people to walk through our doors on the average day, and only a third of them would actually buy something. The business model didn’t really make sense to me, but that was for the married artist couple who ran the place to figure out, not me working part-time for $12.50 an hour.
Starred Reviews for Gardiner Harris, Harron Walker, Rick Atkinson, Karie Fugett, and more!

2 months ago | penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Kate McManus |Karie Fugett |Harron Walker |Gardiner Harris

By Kate McManus | April 10 2025 | Starred Reviews With starred reviews from publications including Library Journal and AudioFile — your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.
Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

Mar 21, 2025 | libraryjournal.com | Harron Walker

. May 2025. 272p. ISBN 9780593450048. $29. MEMOIR COPY ISBN What if Anne Hathaway’s character in The Intern was the natural progression of her character in The Devil Wears Prada? How can journalism and criticism move away from simply reacting to gender and towards actively responding to, and including, trans people?
Generation T: The faces of trans America

Feb 27, 2025 | dazeddigital.com | Harron Walker

Amid the gathering political storm, members of the US trans community share their portraits as they tell stories of terror, solidarity and defiance. But will America listen? This article is taken from the spring 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Donald Trump declared during his inaugural address in January.
Why Is Emilia Pérez So Frustrating? Here’s the Real Problem

Nov 5, 2024 | thecut.com | Harron Walker

Photo: PATHÉ FILMS/Netflix This story was originally published on November 5, 2024. We are recirculating it on the occasion of Emilia Pérez’s whopping 13 nominations at the 2025 Academy Awards — the most nominations for any picture at this year’s Oscars. The film won two awards for Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actress. Emilia Pérez opens with Rita, an overworked lawyer played by Zoe Saldaña, furiously drafting her defense of a client who stands accused of murdering his wife.
Why I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Steve-O’s Almost Boob Job

Sep 26, 2024 | thecut.com | Harron Walker
‘Oh, Mary!’ Made Bianca Leigh’s Broadway Dreams Come True

Sep 19, 2024 | thecut.com | Harron Walker

Photo: Caroline Tompkins Eight times a week, Bianca Leigh steps into her constrictive period undergarments backstage at the historic Lyceum Theatre. Earlier in Oh, Mary!’s run, first downtown at the Lucille Lortel Theatre before transferring to Broadway in July, the costume would sometimes make her feel claustrophobic.
‘MaXXXine’ Successfully Subverts Hollywood Horror Tropes

Jul 5, 2024 | thecut.com | Harron Walker

Photo: Justin Lubin /A24/Courtesy Everett Collection This story includes spoilers for Ti West’s MaXXXine, as well as the previous two installments in the trilogy, X and Pearl.
Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded?

Jun 25, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Harron Walker

In an interview with Harron Walker, the Scottish author Shola von Reinhold discusses the fabulosity of fabulation and whether some stories should be allowed to disappear The novelist Shola von Reinhold is entranced by socialites and scammers, those diaphanous figures flitting in and out of the archive, sometimes, though not always, by choice.