Published Work

Articles and Chapters

2021

2021 “A Guilty Pleasure: The Verdict Against Hip Hop & Rap Lyrics in Law, Social Science and Feminism” Theoretical Criminology https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211028274

2021 Porn and/as Pedagogy, Sexual Representation in the Classroom: A Curated Roundtable Discussion, (co-contributor with Kyler Chittick, Peter Alilunas, Laura Helen Marks and Thomas Waugh) Synoptique – An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/29914

2020

2020 “Prostitution and Homosexuality: A Tale of Two Deviancies” University of Toronto Law Journal

2020 “Kinky Identity and Practice in relation to the Law” in Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law (Edward Elgar Publishing)

2019

2019 “The Treachery of Rape Representation in Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol” co-authored with Dr. Tal Kastner in I Confess!: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age (McGill Queen’s University Press)

2019 “Rape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy” co-authored with Jean Ketterling, Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian law

2019 “Torn: A Social Media Drama over the Aziz Ansari Scandal” co-authored with Dr. Rena Bivens, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

2018

2018 “From Average Joe to Deviant John: The Changing Construction of Sex Trade Clients in Canada” in Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance (UBC Press)

2017

2017 “Fifty shades of ambivalence: BDSM representation in pop culture” in The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality (Routledge)

2017 “Fetishizing Music as Rape Culture” Studies in Gender and Sexuality Vol. 18

2017 “Taking Off The Layers” [A memoir of multiple identities] No more potlucks Issue 48 (sept/oct)

2016

(2016) “Take My Breath Away: Competing Contexts Between Domestic Violence, Kink and The Criminal Justice System in R. v. J.A.” OñatiSocio-legal Series [online], 6 (6), 1405-1425.

(2016) “Desirable Interventions: Some Reflections on Sex-Positive Feminism” (Accepted: Women's Rights Law Reporter)

(2016) “Rap cast as Rape Culture: Feminist Complicity with Legal Interpretive Violence” (Accepted: Law and Fictional Discourse, Oxford University Press)

2015

(2015) “Johns” in the Spotlight: Anti-prostitution Efforts and the Surveillance of Clients. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 30, pp 9-29.

(2015) "Sadomasochism in Sickness and in Health: Competing Claims from Science, Social Science, and Culture." Current Sexual Health Reports (2015): 1-10.

(2015) “The Feminist Surveillance of Sex Trade Clients” chapter for FEMINIST SURVEILLANCE STUDIES (editors Shoshana Magnet and Rachel Dubrofksy, Duke University Press)

2014

(2014) “The Politics of Representation” in REPRESENTATION, REGULATION AND CRIMINALIZATION (editors Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, and Carmela Murdocca, University of Toronto Press)

(2014) My Own Private Sex Wars, Feral Feminisms (2014: Issue 2)

(2014) “Slipping Between Danger, Pleasure and the Law: Thoughts on Three Recent Books Addressing Sexuality“, Dalhousie Law Journal. Vol. 37 No. 1 (Spring 2014)

2013

(2013) Kissing Cousins: Racism, homophobia and compulsory able-bodiedness in the controversy over Inter-Cousin Marriage, Jindal Global Law Review Volume 4: 2

2012

(2012) “Policing the Border Between Self and Other: How Canadian Television Differentiates American and Canadian Styles of Justice” in ed. Jessica Silbey and Peter Robson, Law and Justice on the Small Screen (Hart, 2012) pages 311-345

2011

(2011) “Prostituted Girls and the Grownup Gaze”, Global Studies of Childhood Vol 1:4 pages 302-312

(2011) “Running in(to) the Family: 8 Short Stories About Sex Workers, Clients, Husbands, And Wives” in Journal Of Gender, Social Policy & The Law Vol. 19:2 pages 495-528

(2011) Childhood in Literature, Media and Popular Culture. Global Studies of Childhood. Volume 1:4: pages 276-270

2010

(2010) “Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Legal Controversy over SM Porn” in ed., Dave Monroe, Porn and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) pages 233-246

2009

(2009) “Having your Porn and Condemning it Too: A Case Study of a ‘Kiddie Porn’ Expose”. Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 5:3 pages 391-424

(2009) “Putting a Dominatrix in Her Place”. The Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Volume 21:1 pages 143-175

(2009) “A Woman’s Right to be Spanked: Testing the Limits of Tolerance of S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary”. The Journal of Sexuality and the Law, Volume 18 pages 79-119

2007

(2007) “Perpetuating the Cycle of Abuse: Feminist (Mis)Use of the Public/Private Dichotomy in the case of Nixon v. Rape Relief”. Windsor Review of Law and Social Issues, Volume 23 pages 27-53

2016

(2016) “Take My Breath Away: Competing Contexts Between Domestic Violence, Kink and The Criminal Justice System in R. v. J.A.” OñatiSocio-legal Series [online], 6 (6), 1405-1425.

(2016) “Desirable Interventions: Some Reflections on Sex-Positive Feminism” (Accepted: Women's Rights Law Reporter)

(2016) “Rap cast as Rape Culture: Feminist Complicity with Legal Interpretive Violence” (Accepted: Law and Fictional Discourse, Oxford University Press)

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