My writings.
A selection of my favorite ESSAYS
New York Times, “The Other Talk”
January 2019
The Bold Italic, “Black People Are Struggling With How to Forgive You”
June 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine, “Copenhagen, Paris, and Sweet Sweet Sarajevo”
January 2024
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A selection of my favorite ART MUSINGS
Elephant Magazine
“How to Feel: Five Artists Reflect on the Legacy of Alvin Ailey” / December 2024
“Collecting the World’s Debris with Lonnie Holley” / July 2024
“The Guggenheim’s Ashley James Is Focused on the Work – Like She Always Has Been” / December 2023
The OG, “The Devoted Eye: Monique Meloche”
April 2025
Juxtapoz Magazine
“Elizabeth Glaessner: The In-Between” Fall 2024
“Wendy Red Star: What’s in a Name” Fall 2024
“rafa esparza: A Sense of Generosity” / Summer 2024
“Bony Ramirez: Cutthroat” / Spring 2024
“Sarah Lee: At Moonlight” / Winter 2024
“Gary Simmons: Public Enemy @ the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago” / July 2023
“Sadie Barnette: The Lexicon Of” / Spring 2023
“Jesse Mockrin: A Tragedy in Two Parts” / Spring 2023
“Jenna Gribbon: The Pleasure of Looking” / Summer 2021
“Lina Iris Viktor: Dark Mark Has Substance” / Summer 2020
Alta Journal
“Lava Thomas: Portrait of Phenomenal Women” October 2024
“Mickalene Thomas’s Visions of Love” September 2024
“Simone Leigh’s Timeless Artwork Gets a Major Los Angeles Show”
August 2024
NY Mag’s The Cut, “Women at Rest: Ten Black artists imagine the freedom of leisure at ICA San Francisco’s “Resting Our Eyes” exhibition”
January 2023
San Francisco Chronicle, “Oakland Artist Woody De Othello Molds his Imagination From Everyday Objects”
February 2021
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A selection of my favorite INSTITUTIONS + GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
Night Gallery, Los Angeles, “Esiri Erheriene-Essi: Reflections” 2025
Stems Gallery, Paris, “Shaina McCoy, No Tears for the Sun” 2024
GNYP Gallery, Berlin, “Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne” 2022
Marianne Ibrahim Gallery Publication, Chicago, “Amoako Boafo MONOGRAPH” 2021
Stanford Cantor Arts Center Magazine, “Reflections on the Forces that Push and Pull us Towards Home” 2021
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FICTION
Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest, Shortlist, “A Chance to Be Reborn” 2024
San Francisco’s Writers Conference, Finalist for Fiction, “Band-Aid” 2020