The Abrupt And Anonymous End Of StripperWeb Defector (February 9, 2023)
Portland Club Sassy’s Sues a Stripper Strike Organizer for Defamation Willamette Week (September 22, 2022)
California Stars: Pole workers unite in North Hollywood The Baffler (June 13, 2022)
An East Coast Advocacy Group Is Using Oregon as a Testing Ground for Decriminalizing Sex Work Willamette Week (February 10, 2021)
Boomtown Episode 5: Boobtown and Episode 6: A Thin Line. Texas Monthly (January 7 and January 14 2020) I reported and scripted two episodes of the Boomtown podcast for Texas Monthly. Episode 5 focuses on the women working in the area’s strip clubs and bikini coffee stands. Episode 6 reports out the use of anti-trafficking policing to justify a new, stricter ordinance on the clubs.
A Student at an Oregon Community College Says Instructors Flunked Her for Being a Porn Actress. She’s Suing. Willamette Week (May 8 2019)
Legislation aims to crack down on “illicit massage parlors” in effort to expand trafficking investigations Montana Free Press (April 17 2019)
Oregon Strippers Are Engaged in a Fierce Battle Over Whether They Should Be Contractors or Employees. The Last Reform? A Dial Tone. Willamette Week (March 13, 2019)
It’s International Whores’ Day. Let’s talk about why strippers need better labor laws. Vox (June 2, 2018)
Stormy Daniels’ strip club arrest highlights how evangelical Americans are criminalizing sex work NBC Think (July 13, 2018)
Why Are Strippers More Heavily Vetted Than Uber Drivers? Jezebel (May 13, 2016)
Wildcatting: A Stripper’s Guide to the Modern American Boomtown Buzzfeed (July 25, 2013)
Terra Saunders, Skimpy-Clothes Magnate, Dresses All the Biggest Names in Boobs Texas Monthly (March 30, 2023)
Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse Texas Monthly (June 10, 2022)
A New Owner At the Buffalo News And A Showdown Study Hall (July 21, 2021)
If A White Nationalist’s Things Burn Down, Is It A Hate Crime? Study Hall (May 20, 2021)
A Houston Punk Band’s Protest Anthem Still Resonates, Forty Years After Its Release (The story of how longtime crime and politics reporter Tim Fleck was secretly the voice behind “The Badge Means You Suck,” a song that got Houston punk band AK-47 sued by that city’s police union) Texas Monthly (March 10, 2021)
Crowdfunding Site PledgeMusic Was an Antidote to Music Biz Middlemen—Until It Cheated Artists Out of Millions Pitchfork (June 7, 2019)
“Closer”: The Strange Story of Nine Inch Nails’ Enduring Strip Club Anthem, Revolver (Feb/Mar 2019)
The B-52’s Sunday Review, Pitchfork (October 14, 2018)
“Pony”, “Closer” and Magic Mike XXL’s Embrace of Strip Club Classics Pitchfork (July 22, 2015)
Say Goodbye To Sons Of Anarchy And Its Lousy Soundtrack Deadspin (December 9, 2014)
The State v. Robertson (This is the one story that definitively explains the precedent-setting court case behind Oregon’s stout free speech protections. I’ve presented versions of the research behind it in talks ranging from Portland Startup Week to the stage at Mary’s Club.) SBNation (October 28, 2015)
I wrote this piece five years later, on the occasion of the death of Oregon Supreme Court Justice Hans Linde, author of the Robertson opinion.
Double T’s Last Ride SBNation (September 10, 2014)
The Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Myth Sports on Earth (January 29, 2014)
Missoula Independent stories (These stories are in PDF form because the Independent’s site was removed from the web when the paper was closed)
Three stories on federal immigration arrests in Missoula (Aug/Sept 2018)
Surviving Summer: How to Play Safe this Season (May 31, 2018)
Zines of Production: The not-so-secret history of Missoula’s self-publishers (March 6, 2018)
Floating Hope: A Flathead homeless shelter promises respite to veterans. Why do so many veterans say it doesn’t deliver? (January 30, 2018)
Three stories on community controversy around Bobby Hauck’s return to the Montana Griz (Nov 2017, Aug 2018)
Service Journalism and Specialty Publications
Best of Portland 2022, Willamette Week: MetroPaint Is Recycled From What’s Left at the Bottom of Cans, and the Colors Are Gorgeous and Portland’s End-of-Life Guide Will Help You Grieve Everything From the Death of a Pet to a Divorce
Pets Issue 2022, Willamette Week: An Overlook Homeowner Is Turning Heads With a Jungle Gym of Feeders for Squirrels and a Condo for Stray Cats
Missoula Independent FEAST: Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 (as with other Independent stories, these are PDFs due to the site being taken offline)
SXSWorld: Anticipation Awaits Instagram Co-Founders’ Next Moves, Virtual Reality Innovations Again Turned Heads at SXSW, Anticipation Builds For Apple’s Original Video Content, Is Computing Headed for Quantum Supremacy?
Complex: Texas City Guides