The Best
My writing is expansive, from longform reporting to personal essays to general assignments. Publications I’ve written for include the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, ELLE, GQ and others. For a recent selection of my music criticism for the Chicago Tribune, click here.
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On the Chicago GSA Prom, The New York Times
On the culture of Christmas movies, Harper’s Bazaar
On Kara Jackson, Pitchfork
On Solange’s Houston, The Guardian
On Le1f, Vice
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On Solange, The Cut
On Toni Morrison, VICE
On exploitation in art, The New York Times
On Michelle Obama, Esquire
On Laquan McDonald, Esquire
On the audacity of hope, W magazine
On Nina Simone, Pitchfork
On black athletes, Esquire
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On Jurnee Smollett, ELLE
On Chani Nicholas, Glamour
On Stacey Abrams, Rolling Stone
On Hank Willis Thomas, American Craft
On Gavin Rayna Russom, Pitchfork
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On the hair queens of Chicago, Vogue
On Solange and Houston, The Guardian
On the Chicago Period Project, Bon Appetit
On Brown Girls in Finland, Broadly
On Charlottesville, Grazia
On Brown Girls, ELLE
On queer hip hop, Esquire
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On Beyonce’s Black is King, Stereogum
On Beyonce’s Lemonade, Consequence of Sound
On Solange’s A Seat at the Table, Cosmopolitan
On Beyonce’s “Formation,“ Pitchfork
On Jlin’s Black Origami, SPIN
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I regularly contribute to many popular publications. Below are links to my archives at these outlets.
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Rust Belt Chicago collects essays, fiction, and poetry from more than fifty writers who speak directly to the concerns the city shares with the region at large, and the elements that set it apart. Writing with affection, frustration, anger, and joy, the writers in this collection capture all the harmony and dissonance that define one cacophonous place.
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Over the past ten years, Belt Publishing has been putting out books that prioritize the voices of the many people who live here. We’ve collected our favorite writing from our dozens of anthologies, from Pittsburgh to Gary, Chicago to St. Louis, Milwaukee to Cleveland, and more, documenting growing up in segregated St. Louis and elucidating the coded Islamophobia of southern Michigan.
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Responding to the key issues related to how marginalized communities mesh into today's culture, American Subcultures features an assortement of readings from psychologists, journalists, philosophers, sociologists, activists, and others to give you a broad understanding of this topic in order to write competently about it.