Academic Writings

“The End of the World: Nationhood and Abolition in ATLA” (book chapter, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy) 

““Filming Nature” (Film and Philosophy)

“Towards a Definition of Black Cinematic Horror” (Film and Philosophy)

“Blackening Aesthetic Experience” (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism)

Review of Grant Tavinor’s The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality (forthcoming, British Journal of Aesthetics)

“Creativity, Imagination, and Race” (Forthcoming, Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity)

“Trans Conviction” (Forthcoming, Trans Philosophy in a Time of Panic)

“Black Voices on Aesthetic Love” (In progress)

Please do feel free to email me to request a pdf of any published, forthcoming, or in progress piece!

Public Writings

On David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (The Point)

On Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morales and the Big Steppers (Aesthetics for Birds)

“‘Everybody and No-body Are Allowed in on This’: A Conversation with Marquis Bey” (APA Studies on LGBTQ+ Philosophy)

On Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture (The Point)

On Chinelo Okparanta’s Harry Sylvester Bird (New York Times)

“Darkly Gleaming, Dreaming” (HOLO Magazine)

“How to Love: Matthew Strohl and Rax King on Bad Movies” (LA Review of Books)

“The Right to be Alone” (The Philosopher’s Magazine)

“When I Get Home” (The Point)

“What Slave Play Can Teach Us About Art and Ourselves” (Aesthetics for Birds)

“Case Sensitive: Why We Shouldn’t Capitalize ‘Black’” (The Drift)

“Making Them Suffer” (The Point)

“Syllabus Showcase: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought” (APA Blog)

“Antiblackness and Philosophical Duplicity” (APA Blog)

“What’s So Bad About Digital Blackface?” (Aesthetics for Birds)

Public Talks and Interviews

“Blackness, Horror, and Cinema” (Interview with Brandon Polite of Polite Conversations)