Where possible I have uploaded open access versions of my articles and reports. Click on the links for more information and/or free PDFs.
Books
Vincent B, Erikainen S and Pearce R (2020) TERF Wars: Feminism and the fight for transgender futures. London: SAGE.
Pearce R, Moon I, Gupta K and Steinberg DL (2019) The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives. Abingdon: Routledge.
Pearce R (2018) Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility. Bristol: Policy Press.
Journal Articles
Horton C and Pearce R (2025) The United National Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Rights of Trans Children in Scotland, The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 33(4): 859–889.
White FR, Pearce R, Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, and Hines S (2025) ‘Why is the chubby guy running?’: Trans pregnancy, fatness, and cultural intelligibility, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 42(1): 415-430.
Hines S, White FR, Pfeffer C, Pearce R, and Riggs DW (2025) Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy, Body & Society, 31(1-2): 39-66.
Wright T, Lewis G, Greene T, Pearce R, and Pitman A (2025) The association between microaggressions and mental health among UK trans people: a cross-sectional study, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 60: 1211-1225.
Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, White FR, and Hines S (2024) Trans Birth Parents’ Experiences of Domestic Violence: Conditional Affirmation, Cisgenderist Coercion, and the Transformative Potential of Perinatal Care, Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 3(1-2): 45-68.
Pfeffer CA, Hines S, Pearce R, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2023) Medical Uncertainty and Reproduction of the “Normal”: Decision-Making Around Testosterone Therapy in Transgender Pregnancy, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 4 (Article 100297): 1-10.
Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2022) TERF Savaşları: Bir Giriş, Kaos Q+, 10(1): 32-43.
Pearce R (2021) Academic freedom and the paradox of tolerance, Nature Human Behaviour, 5(11): 1461.
Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, Hines S, and White FR (2021) Trans Conception, Bent Street, 5(1): 16-19.
Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, Hines S and White FR (2021) Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people negotiating conception: Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism, International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2): 6-17.
Pearce R (2020) A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy, Sociology, 54(4): 806-824.
Note: this article includes extensive discussion of suicide.
Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68(4): 677-698.
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2020) Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy loss: An international qualitative study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, Article 482: 1-9.
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2019) Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care, American Psychologist, 74(8): 912-924.
Pearce R and White FR (2019) Beyond the pregnant man: representing trans pregnancy in A Deal With The Universe, Feminist Media Studies, 19(5): 764-767.
Tzanakou C and Pearce R (2019) Moderate feminism within or against the neoliberal university? The example of Athena SWAN, Gender, Work & Organization, 26(8): 1191-1211.
Pearce R and Lohman K (2019) De/constructing DIY identities in a trans music scene, Sexualities, 22(1-2): 97-113.
Adams N, Pearce R, Veale J, Radix A, Castro D, Sarkar A and Thom KC (2017) Guidance and Ethical Considerations for Undertaking Transgender Health Research and Institutional Review Boards Adjudicating this Research, Transgender Health, 2(1): 165-175.
Pearce R (2012) Inadvertent Praxis: What Can ‘Genderfork’ Tell Us About Trans Feminism?, MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 3(4): 87-129.
Book Chapters
Adams N, Pearce R, Veale J, Radix A, Sarkar A, and Castro D (2025) By Us and For Us: Bringing Ethics into Transgender Health Research. In: Wolf-Gould C, Denny D, Green J, and Lynch K (eds) A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream. New York: SUNY Press.
Gupta K and Pearce R (2024) From conflict to collaboration: Solidarity and compromise in trans and women’s movements. In: Connaughton SL and and Pukallus S (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication. London: Routledge.
Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2023) Giving birth as a father: experiences of trans birthing parents. In: J Gill-Peterson (ed) The Conversation on Gender Diversity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer C, and White FR (2023) Whiteness in research on men, trans/masculine and non-binary people and reproduction: Two parallel stories. In: R Andreassen, C Lundström, S Keskinen, and SA Tate (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. London: Routledge.
Riggs DW, Hines S, Pearce R, Pfeffer C, and White FR (2023) ‘Spunkles’, Donors, and Fathers: Men, Trans/Masculine, and Non-Binary People’s Accounts of Sperm Donors and Their Relationships to Children. In: F Kelly, D Dempsey, and A Byrt (eds) Donor-Linked Families in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Riggs DW, Pfeffer C, White FR, Hines S, and Pearce R (2023) Young men, trans/masculine and non-binary people’s views about pregnancy. In: DW Riggs, JM Ussher, KH Robinson, and S Rosenberg (eds) Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health. Abingdon: Routledge.
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2023) Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care. In: EL Zurbriggen and R Capdevila (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Note: this is a slightly updated reprint of our 2019 article originally published in American Psychologist.
Lohman K and Pearce R (2021) Queering Community Development in DIY punk spaces. In: R Meade and M Shaw (eds) Arts, Culture, and Community Development. Bristol: Policy Press.
Riggs DW, Hines S, Pfeffer C, Pearce R, and White FR (2021) Men transmasculine and non-binary people and midwifery care. In: M Anderson (ed) Midwifery Essentials: Perinatal Mental Health. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Riggs DW, Hines S, Pfeffer C, Pearce R, and White FR (2021) Trans Parenting. In: A O’Reilly (ed) Maternal Theory: Essential Readings, The 2nd Edition. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter.
Dietz C and Pearce R (2020) Depathologising Gender: Vulnerability in Trans Health Law. In: M Thomson, C Dietz and M Travis (eds) A Jurisprudence of the Body. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pearce R, Gupta K and Moon I (2020) The Many-Voiced Monster: collective determination and the emergence of trans. In: R Pearce, L Moon, K Gupta and DL Steinberg (eds) The Emergence of Trans: Politics, Culture and Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge.
Lohman K and Pearce R (2020) DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music in the UK. In: R Pearce, L Moon, K Gupta and DL Steinberg (eds) The Emergence of Trans: Politics, Culture and Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge.
Pearce R (2019) Moving through the world as a woman. In: G Crimmins (ed) Stategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy: Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pearce R (2019) Trans Temporalities and Non-Linear Ageing. In: A King, K Almack, Y-T Suen and S Westwood (eds) Older LGBT* People: Minding the Knowledge Gaps. Abingdon: Routledge.
Editorials
Pearce R and Lohman K (2025) Community development in the second Trump era, Community Development Journal, 60(2): 243–248.
Lohman K and Pearce R (2025) Towards 60 years of CDJ, Community Development Journal, 60(1): 1-2.
Horton C, Pearce R, Veale J, Oakes-Monger TC, Pang KC, Sansfaçon AP, and Quinney S (2024) Child rights in trans healthcare – a call to action, International Journal of Transgender Health, 25(3): 313-320.
Pearce R and Lohman K (2024) Academic publishing and the privilege of a platform, Community Development Journal, 59(3): 375–383.
Lohman K and Pearce R (2024) Living our values in research and practice, Community Development Journal, 59(1), 1-7.
Pearce R and Lohman K (2023) Academia on the Edge, Community Development Journal, 58(3): 363-372.
Lohman K, Pearce R, and Craig G (2023) Learning from the history of Community Development, Community Development Journal, 58(2): 181-187.
Pearce R and Lohman K (2022) Old problems, new forms, Community Development Journal, 57(4): 581-588.
Lohman K and Pearce R (2022) The case for a community development journal, Community Development Journal, 57(3): 391-398.
Pearce R (2022) Editorial 57(2), Community Development Journal, 57(2): 187-191.
Hines S, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW and White FR (2021) Trans pregnancy: Fertility, reproduction and body autonomy, International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2): 1-5.
Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2020) Afterword: TERF wars in the time of Covid-19, The Sociological Review, 68(4): 882-888.
Pearce R, Steinberg DL and Moon I (2019) Introduction: The Emergence of ‘Trans’, Sexualities, 22(1-2): 3-12.
Book Reviews
Pearce R (2025) Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die, Symbolic Interaction. Advance publication.
Pearce R (2023) Non-binary genders: navigating communities, identities and healthcare, by Ben Vincent, Community Development Journal, 58(2): 359–361.
Reports
LGBT Foundation (2022) Trans and Non-Binary Experiences of Maternity Services. Manchester: LGBT Foundation. [co-author]
Trans Learning Partnership (2020) Written evidence submitted by Trans Learning Partnership: Reform of the Gender Recognition Act. London: UK Parliament. [lead author]
Jenkins K and Pearce R (2019) The Gender Recognition Act: a trans-inclusive feminist approach. University of Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement.
Pearce R (2017) Certifying Equality? – A critical reflection on Athena SWAN and equality accreditation. Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.
Pearce R and Lester CN (2016) Gender Recognition – Where Next. UK Trans Info.
Pearce R (2015) Community Development Journal 50th Anniversary Conference: Participant Feedback. CDJ Plus.
Pearce R (2012) Public Launch of Community Development Journal Special Issue on Mental Health and Community Development. CDJ Plus.
Pearce R (2008) Under Construction: Trans Students. National Union of Students.
Media Articles
Horton C and Pearce R (2024) The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children, Scientific American, 7 August.
Pearce R (2020) Feminism in the Precarious Academy, Red Pepper, 10 March.
Pearce R (2019) If a man gives birth, he’s the father – the experiences of trans parents, The Conversation, 25 September.
Pearce R (2014) Imagining a trans-inclusive Stonewall, Pink News, 2 September.
2011-2013: Staff writer for Lesbilicious.
2004-2007: Review writer for Screaming Tarts.
Zines
But What Can I Do? How to Fight the Trans Panic (2023-2025, five editions)
New Year’s Resolution: Smash the New Section 28 (2024)
smalltime (2023) with wormboys
Moving Through the World as a Woman (2019)
Revolt Zine! #5 (2017) with the Revolt! Collective
Revolt Zine! #4 (2016) with the Revolt! Collective
In Your Face! (2016)
Revolt Zine! #3 (2015) with the Revolt! Collective
Not Right #7 (2014) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon
Revolt Zine! #2 (2014) with the Revolt! Collective
Revolt Zine! #1 (2014) with the Revolt! Collective
Not Right #6 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Holly Cruise, Becca Rothwell
Nine Worlds Geekfest Zine (2013) with Kirsty Lohman and workshop participants
2013 Grrrl Style Now? (2013) with Kirsty Lohman
Not Right #5 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Holly Cruise, Nazia Hussein, Jo McKillop
Not Right #4 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon
Not Right #3 (2012) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Milena Kremakova
Not Right #2 (2012) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon
Not Right #1 (2012) with Emma Beckett, Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Milena Kremakova
PhD Thesis
Pearce R (2016) (Im)possible Patients: Discourses of Trans Health in the UK. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.
(Note: my book Understanding Trans Health is based upon an edited and updated version of this thesis. However, the material in Chapter 4, Evoking the Field, is largely absent from the book.)
MA Dissertation
Pearce R (2010) Genderforking: Identity, Ambiguity and Diversity Within a Community Blog. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.
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