Selected essays, reviews, interviews, and poetics
Academic
“Precious Okoyomon’s Atmospheric Grief,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol 32, no. 2 (2023)
“One is not in control in dreams”: Reading Dionne Brand’s Notes to Belonging,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2023)
“Neon Paratexts: Reading M. NourbeSe Philip Reading,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol 31, no. 1 (2021)
"The Shape of Poetics to Come: On Taking up the Task of Criticism," American Quarterly, vol 70, no. 1 (2018)
Essays and Reviews
“A New Survey Erases Male Artists From the Western Canon,” The New York Times (2023)
“Fierce Detachments,” Artforum (2023)
“Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto,” MOMUS (2023)
“The Quest to Protect the Father of Ivorian Photography,” Aperture (2023)
Hilton Als’s My Pinup, BOMB Magazine (2022)
“‘I Was Mobile,’” The New York Review of Books (2022)
“Light Years,” Artforum (2021)
“Mandabi: Paper Trail,” Current (2021)
Tourmaline, 4Columns (2021)
On Breonna Taylor’s image, ZORA (2020)
“Groundations,” Canadian Art (2020)
“What Barrington Watson’s Paintings of Jamaican Women Reveal About Pan-African Legacies,” Frieze (2020)
“The Promiscuity of Power,” Art in America (2020)
“‘Atlantics:’ Migration’s Left-Behind Women Brought into Focus,” The New York Review of Books (2019)
“Black Ghosts: Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’ at the Guggenheim,” Art in America (2019)
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel Carby, Bookforum (2019)
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib, Bookforum (2019)
“Back to Plath,” Post45 (2019)
“The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace,” The Nation (2019)
“Killing It,” Propter Nos (2019)
“A Reading Life,” The Creative Independent (2019)
“What it Means When Columbia Does a Show About the Black Model on Its West Harlem Expansion Campus,” Vulture (2018)
“John Akomfrah, On the Verge,” The Paris Review (2018)
"Crushed...," The New Inquiry (2018)
"Move on Up," Real Life (2018)
"Blue Life," co-written with Nijah Cunningham, The New Inquiry (2017)
Profiles and Interviews
Marlon James, WSJ Magazine (2022)
Mickalene Thomas, WSJ Magazine (2022)
Shikeith, Aperture (2022)
Titus Kaphar, WSJ Magazine (2020)
The Weeknd, CR Fashion Book (2020)
Huma Bhabha, T: The New York Times Style Magazine (2020)
Norma Xavier, Pinko (2020)
Jacolby Satterwhite, The Nation (2019)
Leslie Hewitt, T: The New York Times Style Magazine (2019)
Astra Taylor, The New Inquiry (2019)
H.E.R., SSENSE (2018)
Tau Lewis, Topical Cream (2018)
David Scott, The New Inquiry (2018)
Poetics
“To Nowhere,” “Some men need extra lessons,” and “Mistranslation Theory,” Broadcast (2023)
“will I ever stop smoking?,” and “night swim,” Oversound (2022)
“Summertime, Madness,” Feminist Formations (2020)
“did-you-just-say-thang theory,” Poets.org (2020)
"Self-Citation Spell," Roseanne (2017)
"D-E-H-I-S-C-E-N-C-E" and "Not," The Recluse (2017)
"POETRY FOREVER EVER?," Elderly Mag (2016)