2023
“A Retrospective on Author Ann Petry,” Shondaland, October 23, 2023
“Flying Toward a Twenty-First Century Aesthetics of Technomagic Girlhood,” Vault of Culture, August 9, 2023
AWARD: “Flying Toward a Twenty-First Century Aesthetics of Technomagic Girlhood” received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship from the Comic Studies Society
“How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris,” Shondaland (Interview), January 11, 2023
2022
“Writing into Joy with Leah Johnson,” Shondaland (Interview), November 14, 2022
“Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed,” SUPERHERO GIRLFRIENDS ANONYMOUS for Catapult, June 16, 2022
“What ‘Fast & Furious’ Can Teach Us About Women Who Reclaim Their Power,” SUPERHERO GIRLFRIENDS ANONYMOUS for Catapult, April 7, 2022
2021
“Zendaya is Not Your Mama’s Mary Jane,” SUPERHERO GIRLFRIENDS ANONYMOUS for Catapult, December 16, 2021
“Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Unraveling the Myth of the Black Supermom,” SUPERHERO GIRLFRIENDS ANONYMOUS for Catapult, November 4, 2021
“Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend,” SUPERHERO GIRLFRIENDS ANONYMOUS for Catapult, September 23, 2021
“Dreaming Up a Digital Class for Magical Black Girls: A Reflection on the Place of Black Girls in American Studies Scholarship and Pedagogy,” Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, September 2021
“Bullet Journaling to Save a Life,” Catapult, August 9, 2021
“How Eve L. Ewing Makes Her Stories Fly,” Catapult, May 19, 2021
“How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy,” Catapult, April 19, 2021
“For We Humans Tend to Name Hurricanes,” midnight & indigo, January 21, 2021
“Passage,” Voyage YA Journal, January 13, 2021. (Second Place Winner of the Voyage First Chapters Contest, judged by NYT Bestselling Author, Dhonielle Clayton)
“Book Review: Brock, André, Jr., Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures,” Media Industries (peer reviewed, open access)
2020
“How Legend of Korra Gave a Big Black Girl Permission to be Broken,” Catapult, October 8, 2020
“Watercolors,” in midnight & indigo, vol. 3, October 2020. PREORDER HERE.
“Wakanda Forever,” a tribute to Chadwick Boseman, Popular Culture Studies Journal vol 8. no. 2,
“How Being Creative Helps Black People Find Their Mind/Body Connection,” Greatist, June 14, 2020
“I’ve Found 25 Four-Leaf Clovers Since I Started Stayed At Home,” Greatist, May 11, 2020
“How America’s Second Oldest University is Reckoning With Its History of Slavery,” Shondaland, February 26, 2020
“How a Black Girl Learned to Fly,” Catapult, February 24, 2020
“‘Brown Sugar’ Was More Than a Love Story. It’s an Ode to Black Feminism,” ZORA, January 10, 2020
2019
“Committing to Wellness Practices When You’re the Only Black Person in the Room,” Wear Your Voice, December 12, 2019
“My parents’ storybook romance gave me unrealistic expectations for (Black) love in the digital age,” Black Youth Project, October 25, 2019
