E.J. Graff is a journalist, author, commentator, speaker, and editor whose award-winning reporting and provocative commentary examine social ills and our political landscape from every angle: academic, investigative, analytic, sociological, historical, constitutional, legal, and human. She delivers witty, irreverent, informed insight on a wide range of subjects, especially gender, sexuality, politics, and family – but with forays into such issues as terrorism, the death penalty, beach towns, and blizzards.
About
E.J. Graff has been exploring the explosive resistance to Trump’s presidency, writing for Mother Jones about how middle-aged women across the country transformed unexpectedly into full-time political activists and for The American Prospect about how left-of-center organizations are joining together to get beyond individual issues.
Books
She wrote the first full-length American book on same-sex marriage, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004), called “the bible” of the same-sex marriage movement. Beginning in 2000 and 2001, she was one of the first to report on transgender issues in the mainstream media.
Stories
As an investigative and analytic journalist, her work has led to the passage of a new U.S. statute on intercountry adoption; has been cited in scores of academic and law review articles; was quoted in governmental policy-making commissions and on legislative floors and submitted in court cases; is reprinted in textbooks and distributed as course assignments; and is used in NGO research, to train government officials, and in other policy venues.
Speaking
As a columnist and commentator, she delivers witty, irreverent, informed insight on social justice issues, especially related to gender, sexuality, and family – but including subjects that range widely, from “upstanders” to the death penalty, from “voting while trans” to blizzards. Currently she is the managing editor of The Monkey Cage at the Washington Post, which brings political science research and analysis into public discussion.