writing
PROFILES
"Everyday Architecture: An Artist Interview." - Chitra Ganesh. 2024.
Wildseed: A Fellowship Model By and For Black Creatives - C Magazine, June 2021
The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Tariku Shiferaw - Artsy December 2021
“Old Confessions and New:” The Many Faces of Danez Smith - CULTURED, February 2020
INTERVIEWS
Sinister Pleasure: An Interview with Ja’tovia Gary - C Magazine, April 2024
Practices of Care: Jeffrey Meris Interviewed - BOMB, May 2022
How Steffani Jemison Made Movement and Extension of Being - Frieze, September 2021
Investigating Violence: interview with Jonathan Herrera Soto - BOMB Magazine, October 2019
Empathy, Fantasy, and the Power of Protest: An Interview with Chitra Ganesh - Hyperallergic, October 2016
Where My Girls At: Meet Two of Ferguson's Black Queer Activists - Bitch Media, April 2015
BOOK REVIEWS
Glenn Ligon’s Distinguishing Piss from Rain. Brooklyn Rail, September 2024.
Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes. Brooklyn Rail, June/July 2023
Martine Syms and Rocket Caleshu’s The African Desperate. Brooklyn Rail, February 2023
JJJJJJJJerome Ellis’s The Clearing. Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
Gabrielle Civil’s the deja vu: black dreams & black time - The Brooklyn Rail, July 2022
Pope L., My Kingdom for A Title - The Brooklyn Rail, December 2021
N.H. Pritchard, The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS - The Brooklyn Rail, June 2021
Ishmael Reed Picks Hamilton Apart, Bit by Revisionist Bit - Hyperallergic, January 2021
Chronology, review - The Brooklyn Rail, October 2019
Review of Making History: Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada, co edited by Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, and Silvia Forni. “Letters to Canada,” University of the Toronto Press
Unearthing Unicorns – Simone Elizabeth Saunders - C Magazine, August 2023
“Black (CITE) – Karina Griffith, Abde Osman, Raquel Rowe, Wayne Salmon” - C Magazine, June 2023
"Faye Driscoll: WEATHERING." “69: The Witch - PUBLIC.” PUBLIC , Issue 6: The Witch, August 2021
Samantha Box: Confluences, “The Edges of Things: On the Photography of Samantha Box”- essay for exhibition at Des Moines Art Center
“Free to Be More: Creative Activisms in the Era of Black Lives Matter”- Sandra Brewster, We Gather, forthcoming 2026
Rico Gatson, Above and Below - Rico Gatson, October 2024
ART REVIEWS & CRITICISMS
52 Artists Celebrates How far We’ve Come - Frieze, October 2022
Recipes for Representation: Lucia Hierro at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum - Art in American, December 2021
Cultural Staying Power - American Theater Magazine, November 2021
A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief - Hyperallergic, July 2021
‘Born in Flames’ Trailblazes a Radical Feminist Future - Frieze, July 2021
Christian Nyampeta’s Sometimes It Was Beautiful - Performa Magazine, June 2021
El Museo Documents Its Roots and Celebrates Latinx Art - Frieze, November 2020
An Artist Probes Her Southern Lineage in Luminous Shades of Blue - Hyperallergic, October 2020
Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration - Hyperallergic, October 2020
For Freedoms’s Campaign to Bring Creativity Into Politics are More Relevant Than Ever - Artsy, October 2020
Karyn Olivier Subverts the Formal Seriousness of Monuments - Hyperallergic, May 2020
Noah Davis’s Celebratory Vision of Black Family Life - Frieze, February 2020
Probing the Tensions between the Universal and the Specific in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls - Hyperallergic, December 2019
“Engaging with the ‘Thing’: The Hard Work” of Performa 19 - Frieze, December 2019
Consciousness, Conflict, and Contradiction in the Art of Robert Colescott - Hyperallergic, November 2019
The Undersung Art of Native American Women, Front and Center - Hyperallergic, August 2019
Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, Review - Radical Teacher - 2018
Black Women Want a Revolution: On Black Women and Objectification - Rewire, October 2018
Jean Michel Basquiat and the Immortal Black Life - Hyperallergic, May 2015
Who Are the Black Girls in the New French Film Girlhood? - Bitch Media, February 2015
ESSAYS & CHAPTERS
"Correcting Course: Reading a Reframed Canon." Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism. 2023.
Heritage algorithms and other Letters from the Future, Art Papers 2023
Ayanna Dozier’s Cities of the Dead - “A Dream, Unarchived” THE SHED, OPEN CALL, June 2021
Essay for inaugural issue of For the Culture Magazine: It’s Personal + The Pandemic, January 2021
Before Live Laugh Love (For Breonna Taylor) - accompanying text for Elliot Jerome Brown Jr.’s photographs in “A Language for Intimacy” digital exhibition at Abrons Arts Center (June 29-August 30)
Myriad Selves - Green Mountain Review, January 2018 (print and online)
Kara Walker and the Black Imagination - The Believer, December 2017
Our Existence as Women of Color is Resilience: It is Radical Love - Rewire, June 2017
Latoya Ruby Frazier: Art as Transformation, A Lens for Social Change - Haas Institute, July, 2017 Othering and Belonging Conference
Tara Houska, Alicia Garza, Zahra Billou, Jidan Koon: The Being of Belonging. - Haas Institute, July 2017, Othering and Belonging Conference
Delilah, Sinister Wisdom, Issue 100 (print only)
Samson, EMERGE: Lambda Literary 2015 Fellows Anthology (print only)
victory - Feminist Wire, January 2013