Selected Papers/Presentations to Download

Toward a Decolonizing Transgender Psychology. 2008. Paper presented for the Spring 2008 Colloquia in Feminist, Gender, & Sexualities Studies, Cornell University.

Toward ethnic transgender psychologies: Transgender men of color, gender identity, race, culture, and sexuality
Muñoz, 2006. Presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2006.

Still centering the margins: Assimilative pressure, resistance, and transformation in psychology education,
Hill, Muñoz, Correia, 2007. Model of assimilative pressure, resistance, and transformation, Hall, Hill, Muñoz, 2006.
Paper & model presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference,
Chicago, 2007

Listen to an interview, which aired on February 4, 2002, on the progress of the GISO Study on GenderTalk with Gordene MacKenzie and Nancy Nangeroni. This link will also let you view the archived webpage of that week's show.

Books

Where "Something Catches:" Work, Love, and Identity in Youth. 1995. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. In the book series "Identities in the Classroom," Deborah P. Britzman, Editor.

Orienting Gender, Disorienting Sex:Exploring the Shifting Relations Between Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, and Sexual Orientation Among Transgender Youths and Adults. (Tentative title). Manuscript in preparation.

"Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: When Sex Changes So Can Desire" Talk on findings of the GISO study focused on shifts in sexuality. Presented at the XVII World Congress of Sexology Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 2005 as part of the symposium titled, "Sexual Orientation."

"Carmen Miranda, Sylvia Rivera, and Queer  Latinidad" Paper presented at the annual National Women's Studies Association conference, Orlando, Florida,  June 2005.

Conference on Gender, Ethnicity & Sexuality: Daughters of the Motherland Speak, Stony Brook University, April 14, 2004. Muñoz presented, "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Drag Queen Scorned": Sylvia Rivera and Latina Identity. " The conference focused on cross-cultural presentations on the ways in which young women adapt and negotiate issues and concerns of gender and sexuality in the United States.

ORIENTING GENDER, DISORIENTING SEX: PROGRESS REPORT ON THE GENDER IDENTITY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION STUDY (GISO), presented at the 16th World Congress of Sexology, La Habana, Cuba, March 10 - 14, 2003, as part of the symposium titled, "Gender Identity Disorder: Experiences," March 14. This congress was held under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization and organized by the Cuban National Center for Sexual Education.  Research on transsexualism by endocrinologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and educators from Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Cuba and other countries was also presented thus providing an opportunity to compare findings internationally.
In La Habana, Cuba in front of el Hotel Nacional. Photo by: Tova Vitiello
 

"Orienting Gender, Disorienting Sex: Exploring the Shifting Relationships Between Gender Identities, Gender Expression, and Sexual Orientation Among Transgender Youth and Adults" presentation of the GISO Study for the paper session, Gender, Orientation, and Transgender Issues. The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 9, 2002.

"Orienting Gender, Disorienting Sex" presesentation of the GISO Study for the GLBTQ Awareness Month and the Out to Lunch lecture series at the University of Connecticut. October 16, 2002.

"Many Into One, One Into Many," keynote talk to celebrate Latin Night, Oct. 19, 2002 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Sponsor of Latin Night: Baobab Society

Access with George Kilpatrick, WCNY, June 12, 2002, 11:00 PM. Topic of show, "Issues Amongst Gay Youth." Access with George Kilpatrick is a weekly thirty minute program which seeks to openly discuss controversial issues that are of current interest in Central New York.

Panel on Activism and Diversity. "Women and Activism: Creating Local and Global Change," Womenís Month at Merrimack College, April 4, 2002, with Nancy Nangeroni, Transgender activist, talk show host, and author, of the Cambridge amendment to ban gender discrimination.

"Mi Casa Es Tu Casa? Negotiating Queer Community with Ethnic and Cultural Identities."
Invited presentation for the Syracuse University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs/Division of Student Affairs, and SUNY-ESF Office of Multicultural Outreach. February 2002.

"The History of Sex Education: Implications for Contemporary Queer Youth."
 Paper presented for the symposium, Pedagogies and Tensions in Sexuality and Sex Education, American Educational Research Association, April 2001. Seattle, WA.

"Diversity's Perversities." Paper presented as part of a panel, with Professors Pilar Greenwood and Breny Mendoza, for the Wells College Faculty Club, "Multicultural Education and Diversity at a Small Women's College". Fall 2000. This paper was a reworking of, "The Strangest Things Happen: How I Learned to Tolerate and Accept Heterosexuality," which was presented at the Wilson College conference, In Celebration of Women's Colleges,  as part of the panel "Multicultural Education and Diversity at a Small Womenís College." November, 1999.

"Jumping El Charco, Flying La Guagua Aerea, and Other Acrobatics of
Puerto Ricanness." Special Issue--The End of Innocence: Multiculturalism, Anti-Racism, and Pedagogy in Global Times. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 15, No. 4. Winter, 1999