The following links catalog my Op-Eds and other public-facing, online writing. I have archived PDFs of everything as sometimes links or websites stop working.
2025
“‘I’ll Just Take It Orally’: A Nurse Assaulted Me While Trying to Avoid Sickness,” An Injustice, November 28, 2025
“Don’t Agree or Disagree, Just Learn,” The Daily Cougar, November 21, 2025
“Gender Studies and the University in 2025,” Academe Blog, October 28, 2025
“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?),” Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, 19, no. 1 (2025) [open access publication]
“Is Education a Nonperformative?: From Artificial Intelligence to Economic Pressure, Education Frequently Lacks the Expected Impacts,” The Next Classroom, August 28, 2025
“Eugenic Ideas Permeate The Help: Constructions of Race, Gender, Disability, and Class,” Counter Arts, August 6, 2025
“What Counts as an Anachronism?: The ‘Mammy’ Trope and The Help at 14,” An Injustice, August 5, 2025
“The Pitt Erases the Pandemic’s Past and Present,” Bioethics Today, July 28, 2005
“9-1-1 and Buddie: Rebutting Queerbaiting Arguments: We Don’t Need Buck and Eddie to Marry,” Counter Arts, July 26, 2025
“Parental Determinants of Health: Parents and Responsibility for the Measles Outbreak,” An Injustice, July 17, 2025
“Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair: Cripnormativity Rewards Crips like Abbott for Distancing Themselves From Other Disabled People,” Public Seminar, June 10, 2025
“When Every Name is a Forgotten One: Patients, Providers, and Names,” An Injustice, March 24, 2025
“Is Wearing a Face Mask Performative?,” Bioethics Today, March 19, 2025
“Telehealth and Masks Are Still Important: You Don’t Have to Deal With Yearly COVID Infections,” An Injustice, February 28, 2025
2024
“Patients, Healthcare Providers, and Security Theater: The Impossibility of Informed Consent,” An Injustice, December 18, 2024
“Guns, Insurance, and the Political Determinants of Health,” Bioethics Today, December 17, 2024
“Queer (In)Visibility and Society’s Shadow Definitions of Queer: Looking at How ‘Queer’ Gets Defined Outside Dictionaries,” Prism & Pen, December 14, 2024
“Recollection is Not Part of Informed Consent: Yet Another Way Patients Experience Abuse,” An Injustice, December 12, 2024
“Every Suicide is a Social Murder: From the Reel to the Real, Bringing Attention to Nuance,” An Injustice, December 2, 2024
“COVID-19 and Societal Stupidity,” Bioethics Today, November 1, 2024
“‘Education, Mitigation, Air filtration’: Discussing the continued SARS CoV-2/COVID crisis with Keith Muise,” An Injustice, September 20, 2024
“Respect Virtual Attendees: Zoom and Teams Meetings are the Future,” An Injustice, August 27, 2024
“The ‘Trolly Problem’ and My Vote for Kamala Harris: A Brief Look at Ethics and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election,” An Injustice, August 12, 2024
“Notes on ‘Compulsory Tolerance’: Toward Theorizing Today’s Troubles,” An Injustice, August 7, 2024
“Review of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity, by Jack Turban,” Sexuality, Gender, & Policy, May 22, 2024
“Zoom, The Live Sessions and Engaging Pedagogies,” Inside Higher Ed,, April 25, 2024
2023
“‘Positionality’ Is Important, Too: Elevating Conversations about Intersectionality, Privilege, and Oppression,” An Injustice, December 15, 2023
“12 Notes about Fiction Through the Lens of Annie (1982),” Counter Arts, December 15, 2023
“‘Different Spoons for Different Things’: The Spoon Theory” An Injustice, December 11,2023
“AI and Four Things I Can’t Stop Thinking About,” Instruction@UH, December 11, 2023
“Religious Studies Educators, Think Again Before Requiring That Observation Assignment,” December 9, 2023
“Patient-Positive Interactions: A Guide to the Visiting or In-training Physician,” The Good Men Project, September 25, 2023
“How I am Learning to Stop Worrying and Love ChatGPT,” Instruction@UH, July 26, 2023
2022
“COVID-19 and the Banality of Evil,” Merion West, December 4, 2022
“‘It’s Okay, I’m a Doctor’: Recalling a #MeToo Experience,” An Injustice, September 19, 2022
“Society and Historical Memory: Six Common Ways People Relate to the Past,” History News Network, September 4, 2022
“Abortion and Why People are Afraid,” Rice Feminist Forum, August 3, 2022
“I Accidentally Went Two Years Without Eating Texas Brisket,” The Good Men Project, July 23, 2022
2021
“It’s Time to Talk About ‘Student Time’,” Inside Higher Ed, December 1, 2021
“An Irish Immigrant and Her Quests for Survival: An Interview with Novelist Lee Hutch,” Houston Review of Books, November 10, 2021
“Texas Abortion Law Threatens Academic Freedom,” Inside Higher Ed, October 8, 2021
“Blackboard and the Queerphobic Learning Management System,” An Injustice, September 22, 2021
“Building Classroom Community Through Dance: An Interview with Author Trevor Boffone,” The Left Gazette, September 22, 2021
“Pandemic Teaching Reflections, Not All Rainbows,” Houston Review of Books, August 16, 2021
“Teaching Through Scenarios: Identities and Sexual Violences in the Gender Studies Classroom,” Sexuality, Gender, & Policy, May 13, 2021.
“Formalized Extensions and Pedagogies of Care,” #RealCollege Blog, April 13, 2021
“Inclusive Teaching Doesn’t Mean Including ‘Everyone,’” Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion, April 1, 2021
“The Big Idea History Syllabus (Video Essay),” History News Network, March 14, 2021
“Taking an Oath Upon the Constitution, Rather than the Bible , Merion West, February 19, 2021
“Sexism, Everyday Microaggressions, and Collective Trauma,” An Injustice, February 14, 2021,
“Cripnormativity: An Essay About How We Think (And Don’t Think About Disability,” The Left Gazette, February 6, 2021
“People Aren’t Born Gay or Straight: Deconstructing the ‘Born This Way’ Movement A Decade After Lady Gaga’s Song,” Modern Identities, February 5, 2021
“Notes on the Imperialist White Supremacist Capitalist (Heteronormative Ableist Theistic) Patriarchy,” The Left Gazette, February 2, 2021
“When Discussing Loan Forgiveness, There’s More Than Just Student Debt,” Merion West, February 2, 2021
“‘She’s such a child!’: and Other Unfortunate Examples in the Dictionary,” The Left Gazette, January 31, 2021
“I’m One of the Professors Spending Thousands of My Own Money to Teach from Home,” The Hechinger Report, January 26, 2021
“‘Going A Little Unhinged’: Some Raw, Informal Thoughts About Presidential Politics,” The Good Men Project, January 13, 2021
2020
“Create Collaborative Videos to Build Historical Engagement,” History News Network, December 20, 2020,
“Privilege and Childhood Possessions: Objects Effectively ‘Store’ Important, Formative Memories,” The Good Men Project, December 7, 2020
“Welcoming Activities That Work,” Inside Higher Ed, September 2, 2020
“Neurofibromatosis Survivor: Please Wear a Mask to Prevent COVID-19,” Cancerwise, September 1, 2020
“Examining Christian End Times Rhetoric in the Time of COVID,” History News Network, August 16, 2020
“Forgiveness is a Toxic Practice,” The Good Men Project, August 15, 2020
“Suggestions for Teaching About Race,” Inside Higher Ed, August 12, 2020
“Little Known Reasons People Think COVID-19 is a Liberal Hoax,” The Good Men Project, August 1, 2020
“Not Cis. Not Trans. Genderqueer,” Queer Studies Network, July 15, 2020
“While Monuments Are Being Removed, A Historian Asks Questions,” History News Network, July 3, 2020
“Second Class Citizens and the Film That Never Was: UH Professor Calls on Filmmaker to Release His Documentary,” The Daily Cougar, July 1, 2020
“Notes on ‘First World Problems’,” Merion West, June 29, 2020
“People Really Do Get Their Civil Rights History From Movies Like The Help. The Problem With That Is Clear,” Time, June 12, 2020
“You’re Not That Different from the Trans People Around You,” The Daily Cougar, February 24, 2020
“The Democratic Party Talks About Race by Not Talking About Race,” Talking Point Memos, February 21, 2020
“What People Still Get Wrong About Segregation,” Time, February 3, 2020
“Kindergarten Goes to the University Classroom: The Educational Value of Show and Tell,” History News Network, February 2, 2020
“I Asked People Why They Don’t Vote, and This Is What They Told Me,” The Conversation, January 17, 2020
“The Problem with a Year of Celebrating the 19th Amendment,” The Washington Post, January 10, 2020
2019
“Creating New Connections and Conversations in the Classroom,” Inside Higher Ed, November 26, 2019
“Neurofibromatosis Survivor: Snapshots from an MD Anderson Patient Who Doesn’t have Cancer,” Cancerwise, June 6, 2019
“Yes, You Should Have Free Speech on Facebook,” History News Network, May 26, 2019
“Trendy Chick-fil-A Boycotts Don’t Go Far Enough,” Houston Chronicle, March 28, 2019
2018
“Lawrence v. Texas,” Handbook of Texas, 2018
2017
“Guest Column: Students Should Enroll in LGBT Courses,” The Daily Cougar, April 10, 2017
2016
“19 More Lesson about Teaching,” Inside Higher Ed, April 19, 2016
2015
“Lighten Up! Why Andrew Joseph Pegoda Is so Critical of the World,” Conditionally Accepted, February 3, 2015
2014
“The Emotional Costs of Student Success,” Inside Higher Ed, October 30, 2014
“It’s Andragogy, Not Pedagogy,” Inside Higher Ed, June 17, 2014
“Writing Intensive Classes,” Inside Higher Ed, February 7, 2014
2013
“How We Respond to Students,” Inside Higher Ed, October 9, 2013
“19 Lessons About Teaching,” Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2013
2010
“The University of Houston and Texas Southern University: Perpetuating ‘Separate but Equal’ in the Face of Brown v. Board of Education,” Houston History Magazine, 2010
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda 