Writing
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP & ARTS WRITING
- 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
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP — EDITED BOOK
Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS — ARTICLES & REVIEWS
“Dancing, Walking, and Brace: Black performance in Seattle emerging from the pandemics,” in Movement Research Performance Journal #56, Summer 2022.
“Sighting Segregation Black aesthetics and the materiality of art in St. Louis and Ferguson,” in The Material World of Modern Segregation edited by Iver Bernstein and Heidi Kolk, 2022.
A book review of Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity by Dorinne K. Kondo. In TDR: The Drama Review 64.3 (2020): 179-181.
“Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-collapse Seattle,” in Postdramatic Theatre and Form. Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
A book review of Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York by Hillary Miller. In Modern Drama 61.1 (Spring 2018): 118-120.
“An uncharted persistence: Alternative minoritarian theater in Chicago,” in Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World, An Anthology. Edited by Chinua Thelwell. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Right to the Artistic City: Performing Engagements Beyond Austerity in Post-Collapse Chicago” in the French Review of American Studies special issue Reclaiming the Right to the City in the American Metropolis. French Review of American Studies 148 (2016): 84-97.
“Brooklyn’s Experimental Frontiers: A Performance Geography.” TDR: The Drama Review 58:3 (August 2014): 97-123.
“‘What a Body Can do’: A praxis session by Ben Spatz, Zihan Loo, Christine Germain, Donia Mounsef, Ira Murfin, Justin Zullo & Krista DeNio.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. 19:3 (August 2014): 150-151.
“Beyond Capitalist Value: Experimental persistence in the austere city.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts 18: 2 (June 2013): 80-91.
“Black love? Black love!: All Aboard the presence of punk in Seattle’s NighTraiN.” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 22: 2-3 (November 2012): 315-323.