Writing

Teen Vogue:

• “2020 Was a Year to Learn (or Relearn) Important Black Feminist Lessons”
• “Trump’s Illness Isn’t a National Emergency, White Supremacy Is”
• “Kamala Harris as VP Challenges Our Notion of Representation”
• “Don’t Let Them Bad-Mouth Rebellion or Riots”
• “Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing Is a Reminder We Must Be Anti-Racist”
• “Democrats Need to Stop Chasing the White Moderate”

The Root

• “Yes, 55 Percent of White Women Voted for Trump. No, I’m Not Surprised.”
• “Forced Sterilization Is Nothing New to Criminalized People in the US”
• “Kinship” Isn’t Enough — Harris Must Be Accountable to Black People”

Teen Vogue:

• “What Marginalized Populations Need From Our Allies In 2020”
• “It’s Your Responsibility to Challenge Bigoted Relatives Over the Holidays”
• “My Wakanda-Wannabe Neighborhood Still Has a Race Problem”
• “The Real Scandal With This College Admissions Mess Is White Privilege”
• “Terry Crews’s Latest Comments Perpetuate the Same Toxic Masculinity He Opposes”
• “Icon Shirley Chisholm Paved the Way for Black Women In Politics”
• “We’re Bound by Rape Culture. It’s Time to Shift the Lens”
• “People of Color Deserve Credit for Their Work to Save the Environment”

The Root

• “What Chris Brown’s Guest Appearance on Black-ish Says About All of Us”
• “On White Women Who Pen Criticisms of Beyoncé and Serena When White Feminism Isn’t Enuf”
• “Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels Built Careers on Black Women Stories but Trade in Misogynoir”

BITCH Magazine (online)

• “The Prison Paradox: Ending Mass Incarceration in the Age of Cosby“
• “Racial Roadblocks: The NAACP Lights a Flare on Anti-Blackness” ( reprint from magazine)
• “More Than Checking Privilege: The Gun Debate Has To Get Serious About Race”
• “No Need for Superheroes: “A Wrinkle In Time” Shows Black Girls How To Save Themselves”

Black Perspectives (Blog of the AAIHS)

• “Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement”, (Book Review: Barbara Ransby’s Making All Black Lives Matter)
• “#SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie”
• “Multiple and Interlocking: Black Lives Matter as a Lens”

Teen Vogue

• “Yes, the Midterms Felt Heartbreaking, but Not All Hope Is Lost”
• “Kanye West Is What Internalized Racism and Misogyny Looks Like”
• “Boycotting Should Be a Tactic to Protest the Powerful, Not to Strengthen Them”
• “We Need to Talk About Anita Hill Now More Than Ever”
• “Black Women Have Always Been Underpaid and Mistreated at Work“
• “Chicago’s Girls Took Over a Park to Celebrate and Empower Each Other”
• “Black Women Are Not Your Superheroes”
• “Imprisoning Children Is an Ugly American Tradition ”
• “Trying to Free Just One Person Isn’t Really Prison Reform“
• “Meghan Markle’s Blackness is Significant Because of England’s Imperialism”
• “Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About Black People“
• “Calling the Police on Black People Puts Them in Danger“
• “Milwaukee Civil Rights Icon Vel Phillips Has Died“
• “Don’t Whitewash the Hatred That Caused Martin Luther King’s Death“
• “Women’s History Month Should Center Black Women for Once“
• “Why Is Forgiveness Always Expected from the Black Community After Violence Occurs?“
• “Black History Month Isn’t Racist, It’s a Form of Reparations“
• “Call the Super Bowl Destruction What It Is: A White Riot“
• “We Need to Honor MLK’s Real Legacy, Not the One That Makes White Americans Comfortable“

BITCH Magazine (online)

• “Doing the Work: White People Must Invest In Anti-Racism”
• “Forced Exile: How Queer Families Navigate Holidays”
• “Conditions of Consent: Teaching Children Bodily Autonomy”
• “The Fragility of Silence: Unlearning Childhood Secrecy and Breaking the Chains in Adult Life” (reprint from magazine)
• “Not Your Belly, Not Your Business: On Serena Williams, Reproduction, and Athleticism”
• “Beloved, Black Women, and the Limits of Freedom: Reflecting on the Literary Classic as a Love Letter to Black Women”
• “A Square Peg at the Roundtable: On Jessica Williams and Why Black Women are Not Here to Save You”

Teen Vogue

• “Racist Violence Killed Four Girls in the 1963 Birmingham Bombing“
• “Trump Bullies and Disrespects Black Women“
• “The Story Behind the East St. Louis “Race Riots”
• “Publicly Lynching Black People Was Once Common Practice in the U.S.“
• “Women Have Always Been a Part of White Supremacy“

The Root:

• “What Chris Brown’s Guest Appearance on Black-ish Says About All of Us”
• “On White Women Who Pen Criticisms of Beyoncé and Serena When White Feminism Isn’t Enuf”
• “Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels Built Careers on Black Women Stories but Trade in Misogynoir”

Washington Post:

• “I struggle with the fact that I passed my disability on to my children“
• “Why mothering as a queer black woman is inherently political“

Washington Post:

• “The House sit-in was just a way to cover up years of failure on guns”

Daily Dot:

• “Your overpriced Starbucks latte isn’t going to fix America’s race problems”

EBONY:

• “Hate in the Pulpit”

The Root:

• “As a Woman, I Can’t Love Madea and Hate Straight Outta Compton”
• “How ‘Selling a Home While Black’ Nearly Broke Me”

EBONY:

• “The Politics of Pregnancy and the Workplace”
• “Black Women Slammed by Unemployment Cuts”

The Root:

• “Janet Mock Breaks Through the Isolation for Transgender Women of Color”