Books
art essays and cultural criticism
“While the U.S. Celebrates the End of Slavery on Juneteenth, Incarcerated Artists Depict the Harsh Reality That Forced Labor Persists in Prison,” Artnet, 19 June 2022
“The Right to Intimacy” with Raphaela Rosella, GRANTA 159 28 April 2022.
“From Innocence to Beyond Guilt,” with Tyra Patterson, In The Innocents: Photographs and Interviews by Taryn Simon. 2nd edition. Forthcoming.
“Abolition,” Aperture 241 (Winter 2020): 84-85.
“Project,” Artforum International (Sept 2020): 116-123.
“Black Radical Feminism and the Iconic Status of Angela Davis,” In Angela Davis: Seize the Time, edited by Gerry Beegan and Donna Gustafson. New Brunswick, NJ: Zimmerli Art Museum and Munich, Germany: Hirmer Publishers, 2020: 71-77.
“Policing and the Production of Crime,” In The Atmosphere of Crime, edited by Sarah Meister. Germany and New York: Steidl and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2020: 74-77.
“Racist Police Practices like Mug Shots Normalize the Criminalization of Black Americans,” NBC News, THINK, 6 August 2020.
“When the Government Stops Counting,” Dissent Magazine (Summer 2020): 154.
“The Quiet Risks of John Edmonds’s Photographs,” New York Review of Books Daily, 30 August 2019.
“The Non-Linear Temporalities of Fatimah Tuggar’s Media Art,” In Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons. Munich, Germany: Hirmer Publishers, 2019: 50-59.
“Drawing toward Freedom” In The Pencil is the Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists. Drawing Papers 140. New York: The Drawing Center, 2019: 18-22.
“Deana Lawson’s Mohawk Correctional Series.” In Reflections: The American Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art, edited by Nannette Maciejunes and M. Melissa Wolfe. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art in Association with Ohio University Press, 2019: 648-649.
“Raising a Black Boy Not to be Afraid,” Literary Hub, 3 October 2018: https://lithub.com/raising-a-black-boy-not-to-be-afraid/
“Mickalene Thomas’s World Making.” In Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me, edited by Ryan Shafer. Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2018: 57-61.
“Public Intimacy: Deana Lawson’s Mohawk Correctional Facility Series.” In Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the American Justice System, edited by Risa Puleo. Miami, FL: NAME Publications, 2018: 300-305.
“Through His Art, A Former Prisoner Diagnoses the Systemic Sickness of Florida’s Penitentiaries,” The Conversation, 31 August 2018: https://theconversation.com/through-his-art-a-former-prisoner-diagnoses-the-systemic-sicknessof-floridas-penitentiaries-101588 *republished by The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Salon, and SF Gate.
“Collective Conscious: The Art of Social Change,” Black Art in America, 14 August 2018.
“Marking Time.” Aperture 230 (Spring 2018): 76-81.
“Prison Portraits.” Aperture.org. “Vision & Justice Online,” June 2016
“Painting While Shackled to a Floor: Review of Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay and Windows on Death Row: Art from Inside and Outside the Prison Walls,” Public Books, 10 November 2017.
“Diasporic Connections: Black Documentary Filmmakers from New York meet their Counterparts in Brazil.” International Documentary (February-March 2004): 40-41.
“Carrie Mae Weems Brings Love to Harlem.” Rev. of A Certain Kind of Love. Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire (Summer 2003): 180-184.
Rev. of Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman. Theatre Journal 55.2 (2003): 331-332.
Editorial
Co-Editor, HOME FREE: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition. Monolith Editions, 2024.
Editor with introductory essay, Mark Bradford: Process Collettivo. Zurich, Switzerland: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2024.
Co-Editor, “The New Status Quo: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Poverty in the 21st Century,” special issue of Feminist Formations, co-edited with Sarah Tobias (anticipated publication date: Spring 2021).
Co-Editor, “Prison Nation,” special issue of Aperture magazine, with Michael Famighetti, Issue 230 (Spring 2018).
Series Associate Editor, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender Studies. 10 volume series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2015-2018.