Arts Writing

• “A Seattle Octavia Butler exhibition invites you to dream of an improved city,” The Seattle Times, 3 April 2024.
• Crosscut, Black Arts Legacies, 2022 – 2023
• Various posts for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies blog, Ongoing
• “The Boundless Light of Black Children: Barbara Earl Thomas’s ‘Geographies of Innocence’ at Seattle Art Museum,” Variable West, 16 November 2021.
• “The Kinsey Collection: Art, Archive, and History of the Black American Experience,” South Seattle Emerald, 9 October 2021.
• “Debuting Juneteenth, ‘Unmute The Voices’ Highlights Composers and Musicians of Color,” South Seattle Emerald, 18 June 2021.
• “Staging Black Memories, Singing with Ghosts,” South Seattle Emerald, 29 May 2021.
• “What the Emerald Means to Me: Illumination,” South Seattle Emerald, 27 April 2021.
• “Sensing Out of Numbness: A Conversation with Shin Yu Pai,” South Seattle Emerald, 23 April 2021
• “Jacob Lawrence Illuminates the American Struggle,” Hyperallergic, 5 April 2021
• “Ijeoma Oluo on the Pervasive Impact of White Mediocrity,” Literary Hub, 1 March 2021
• “Thinking With” on Abstractions of Black Citizenship Series for ASAP/J Online
  • “Online Curating During 2020,” 11 February 2021 (author)
  • “Interview with Molly Mac and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud,”18 February 2021 (in conversation with Ken Allan)
  • “Student Conversations,” 25 February 2021 (in conversation with Anna Iwasaki, Meilani Mandery, Ashley Marshall, and Ellen McGivern)
  • “The Artists,” 5 March 2021 (author)
• “‘Black and Center’ Holiday Gift & Giving Guide!,” South Seattle Emerald, 18 December 2020
• “‘Black and Center’ — Color, Collaboration, and Care,” South Seattle Emerald, 2 December 2020
• “Waking Up to Black Art: Wa Na Wari, Murals, and Art at Home,” A Year in Black Art, The Black Embodiments Studio, October 2020
• “‘Black and Center’: Archiving Indigenous and Black Futures,” South Seattle Emerald, 23 October 2020
• “‘Black and Center’: Moving with Art in Seattle,” South Seattle Emerald, 17 September 2020
• “Melted Snow on Virtual Stages,” (in conversation with Autumn Knight), Howlround, 26 August 2020
• “Tschabalala Self: Out of Body,” Art Forum, January 2020
• “Xenobia Bailey,” Wa Na Wari Gallery Guide, August 2019
• “To Salvage an Archive,” (in conversation with Deanna Bowen), Canadian Art Review, 6 June 2019
• “Tschabalala Self’s Avatars of Black Womanhood,” Hyperallergic, 4 March 2019
• “Touring the Divided City,” The Common Reader, 11 November 2016
• Co-Founder and Editor, The Arts Politic, 2009 – 2010