Writing
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope 2020
This book examines Janet's continuation of her quest for control as heard in her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. Engaging with the album, the promotion, the tour, and its accompanying music videos, this study unpacks how Janet uses Black cultural production as an emancipatory act of self-creation that allows her to reconcile with and, potentially, heal from trauma, pain, and feelings of alienation.
Book Chapters
Fast, Flaccid Capitalism in Victoria-Idongesit Udondian: How Can I Be Nobody, edited by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, 2024
Tschabalala Self’s Exquisite Corpses: or, The Bad Bitch Prometheus, in Tschabalala Self: Bodega Run, edited by Sasha Bonét, 2024
Out of Sight: Black Femmes and Explicit Acts, in Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, edited by Ashley James, 2023
Ecstatic Forms, Erotic Bodies, in Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, 2022
Process as Ceremony: Basketball and Kool-Aid, in David Hammons: Basketball and Kool-Aid, edited by Michelle Molokotos, 2021
The Music Video’s Counter-Poetics of Rhythm in Routledge Companion to Global Television, edited by Shawn Shimpach, 2019
Black Women and the Edit of Shame in The Cléo Reader (2013-2019), edited by Kiva Reardon, 2017
Screen Slate Contributions
Landing page for film articles, reviews, and interviews for Screen Slate
Latest entry: Eco Cybernoia: An Interview with Shu Lea Cheang, 2024
Brooklyn Rail Contributions
Landing page for film articles, reviews, and interviews for the Brooklyn Rail
Latest entry: Shu Lea Cheang's Fresh Kill, 2024
Peer Reviewed Articles
Conjuring Caliban's Woman: Moving beyond Cinema's Memory of Man in Praise House in Hypatia Vol. 36 Issue 3, 2021
Wayward Travels: Racial Uplift, Black Women, & the Pursuit of Love & Travel in Torchy in Heartbeats in Feminist Media Histories: (Special issue) Comics, edited by Kathleen McClancy, 2018
No Happy Returns: Aesthetics, Labor, and Affect in Julie Dash’s Experimental Short Film, Four Women in Feminist Media Studies Vol. 17 Issue 4, 2017
Journal/Magazine Articles
To Bulldoze a Cemetery in Three Fold Press, 2024
Surveilling Bodies: Archives and Sex Work in Pioneer Works: The Broadcast, 2022
What Remains: Exit 15x at Snake Hill in DENSE: Issue 1, 2021
From the Records of Loss: The Cities of the Dead Project in Race Space McGill Blog, 2021
Revolution Televised: Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation in the National Registry at The Library of Congress, 2021
Pathe-ways in Time, Bodies, and Aesthetics: Onyeka Igwe's Specialised Technique in NON-FICTION 02 - NETWORK, 2020
Begone with the Wind How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery in Bitch Magazine, 2020
Sound Garden: On Ja’Tovia Gary’s The Giverny Document in Artforum, 2020
Fucking Whiteness: Orientations, Desire, and Race in Camille Billops's Docu-Fantasy The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks in Another Gaze Vol. 2, 2018