All of my journal articles, book chapters and systematic reviews as well as citations for submitted and accepted publications can be found here. Where possible, items are hyperlinked to full-text versions.

Please note that when citing my research, the last name + first initial formatting should read: Lowik, A., without the J. Since A.J. is my first name (no space), my first initial is ‘A’ alone. :)

Lowik, A. (2025 - Available for Preorder). On abortion, sexual and gender minority pregnant people, and reproductive justice. In M. Greenfield, K. Luxion, E. Molloy and A. Hinton (Eds.) A Guide to Providing LGBTQ+ Inclusive Reproductive Health Care. Routledge.

Lowik, A., Delgado-Ron, J. A., Khonina, M., & Salway, T. (Accepted). Measuring gender modality: Comparing strategies and methods from the UnACoRN Youth Survey. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Lowik, A. (2024). Gender-affirming hormones and family formation considerations. In L. Halpern Zisman (Ed.) Conceivable: A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing.

Lowik, A. (2024). Why we should care about trans people and menstruation. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 2081-2082. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-02014-3

Harding, K. G., Lowik, A., Guinard, C., & Wiseman, S. (2024). Exploring gender diversity in Canadian surgical residency leadership. Journal of Surgical Education, 81(12), 103282. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.09.001

Riggs, D. W., Lowik, A., Restar, A. J., Everhart, A., Lett, E., Cheung, A. S., Arora, M., Treharne, G. J., & Rosenberg, S. (2024). Ensuring an inclusive, trans-led future for the field of trans health. International Journal of Transgender Health, 25(4), 619-622. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2024.2370607

Lowik, A., Mniszak, C., Pang, M., Ziafat, K., Karamouzian, M., & Knight, R. (2024). A sex- and gender-based analysis of alcohol treatment intervention research involving youth: A methodological systematic review. PLoS Medicine, 21(6), e1004413. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004413

Ramadan, R., Tan, S., Lowik, A., & Isaacs, K. V. (2024). Influence of gender modality on the delivery of breast cancer care from diagnosis to treatment: A systematic review. International Journal of Transgender Health, online ahead of print, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2024.2351448

Lowik, A., & Smith, L. (2024). Periods on the table: Taking stock of the menstrual equity movement in Canada. Nursing Clio, https://nursingclio.org/2024/12/06/periods-on-the-table-taking-stock-of-the-menstrual-equity-movement-in-canada/.

Perrin, H., Shannon, K., Lowik, A., Rich, A., Baral, S., Braschel, M., & Deering, K. (2023). Access to and quality of care for sexual and gender minority women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Women’s Health, 19. doi: 10.1177/17455057231205677

Lowik, A., Parkyn, J., Wiesenthal, E., Hubinette, M., & Wiedmeyer, M. (2023). A curricular audit method: Addressing the erasure of intersex, trans and Two-Spirit people and the imprecise use of gender and sex concepts in undergraduate medical education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, online ahead of print. FULL TEXT HERE.

Lowik, A., Al-anzi, S. M. F., Amaresekera, A., Chan, A., Edworthy, M., Rana, M., Nath, R., Salter, A., Ybarra, M., & Saewyc, E. (2023). Transgender youth’s perspectives on factors influencing intentional and unintentional pregnancies. Women’s Reproductive Health, online ahead of print.

Lowik, A. (2022). “I gender normed as much as I could”: Exploring nonbinary people’s identity concealment and disclosure strategies in reproductive health care spaces. Women’s Reproductive Health: Special Issue ‘Trans Sexual and Reproductive Health’, online ahead of print.

Lowik, A., Prangnell, A., Carson, A., Wong, J., & Knight, R. (2022). Factors Influencing the Acceptability of Nominal, Non-nominal and Anonymous HIV Testing Options among Young Men Living in Vancouver, Canada: A Qualitative Study. The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, online ahead of print.

Lowik, A., Dlamini, S.N. & Anucha, U. (2022). Engaging Youth Creativity through PhotoVoice in a multicultural city. In S. N. Dlamini and S. Stienen (Eds.) Spactialized Injustices in the Contemporary City: Experiencing the New Urbanism. Abington, UK: Routledge Advances in Sociology Series.

Lowik, A. (2020). Bookshelf Review: The Palgrave Handbook in Critical Menstruation Studies. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28(1).

Lowik, A. (2020). “Just because I don’t bleed, doesn’t mean I don’t go through it:” Expanding Knowledge on Trans and Non-Binary Menstruations. International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2), 113-125.

Lowik, A. (2020). Betwixt, Between, Besides: Reflections on Moving Beyond the Binary in Reproductive Health Care. Creative Nursing, 26(2), 105-108.

Lowik, A., Hoong, P. & Knight, D. (2020). Where’s the Science? A Critical Interrogation of how Sex and Gender are used to Inform Low-risk Alcohol Use Guidelines. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 14(5), 357-359.

Ferlatte, O., Salway, T., Oliffe, J.L., Kia, H., Rice, S., Morgan, J., Lowik, A. & Knight, R. (2019). Sexual and Gender Minorities’ Readiness and Interest in Supporting Peers Experiencing Suicide-Related Behaviours, Crisis, 41(4), 273-279.

Knight, R., Mniszak, C., Karamouzian, M., Pang, M. & Lowik, A. (2019) Addressing gender and sex in alcohol treatment research for youth: A systematic review of a decade of research. PROSPERO 2019 CRD42019119408

Lowik, A. & Knight, R. (2019). Toward Gender-Inclusive, Nonjudgmental Alcohol Interventions for Pregnant People: Challenging Assumptions in Research and Treatment. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 13(5), 335-337.

Lowik, A. (2018). Reproducing Eugenics, Reproducing while Trans: The state sterilization of trans people. The Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 14(5), 425-445.

Lowik, A. (2015). The Ties that Bind are Broken: Trans* Breastfeeding Practices, Ungendering Body Parts and Unsexing Parenting Roles. In F. Green and G. Pelletier (Eds.), Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers & Mothering, pp. 205-221. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press. BUY THE BOOK HERE

Mulé, N., Lowik, A., Teixeira, R., Hudler, R. & Hader, D. (2014). Engaged queer scholarship: Probing a new paradigm of knowledge creation. Scholarly Research and Communication, 5(3), 1-17. FULL TEXT HERE

Dlamini, S.N., Maticka-Tyndale, E., Omorodion, F., Anucha, U., Lowik, A. and the HP4RY Team. (2012). What Does a Decolonizing/Decentralizing Methodology in Examining Sexual Lives Entail? African Journal of Reproductive Health, 16(2), 55-70. FULL TEXT HERE

Dlamini, S.N. Okoro, F., Ekhosuehi, U.O., Esiet, A., Lowik, A. and Metcalfe, K. (2012). Empowering Teachers to Change Youth Practices: Evaluating Teacher Delivery and Responses to the FLHE Programme in Edo State, Nigeria. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 16(2), 87-102. FULL TEXT HERE