Selected published and forthcoming academic writing.
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ACADEMIC WRITING
“Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation.”African-American Arts: Activism and Aesthetics. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. Ed. Sharrell D. Luckett.
“’We Were What No One Else Had:’ How Black Fashion Models Constructed a New Wave of Performativity and Visibility.” The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance (CAATP). (Fall 2018). Eds. Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. Richards, Renée Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz.
“Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style.” College Art Association Reviews (caa.reviews). (April 2018). Eds. Edward Chambers, Alan Gilbert.
“In Search of the Good Life: Toward a Discourse on Reading the Black Body in Hip Hop and Luxury Fashion.”QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. (Special Issue: Sartorial Politics, Intersectionality, and Queer World Making). (Fall 2017). Ed. Eric Pritchard.
“Open Space: Black Fashion Studies.” International Journal of Fashion Studies 4, no. 1. (April 2017): 103-139. Ed. Rikki Byrd.
“On the ‘Black Designer.” The Fashion Studies Journal, 1, no. 1 (September 2016). Eds. Kimberly Jenkins, Lauren Downing-Peters. http://www.fashionstudiesjournal.org/essays/2016/9/11/on-the-black-designer.
“Looking the Part: The Liberation and Criminalization of Black Men Through Style and Adornment.” BIAS Journal of Dress Practice 4, no. 1 (May 2016). https://issuu.com/dresspracticecollective/docs/bias_issue_4_fashion_and_violence.
ARTS WRITING
“Notes on Provenance.” Amanda Williams: What Black Is This, You Say?. (forthcoming 2023).
“Hip Hop’s Mourning Aesthetics.” The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. (Baltimore Museum of Art; St. Louis Art Museum, 2023).
“Rikki Byrd in conversation with Suzanne Jackson.” Suzanne Jackson: Listen N’ Home. (Chicago: Chicago Arts Foundation, 2022).
“A Gem.” Sandra Payne: A World of Shine. (St. Louis: Barrett Barrera Projects, 2022).
“Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Grandassa Models, Merton Simpson Gallery).” In Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking About History With The Block’s Collection. Edited by Essi Ronkko and Kate Hadley Toftness. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021).
“Afterword.” Abstractions in Black Citizenship: African American Art from St. Louis exhibition catalog. Edited by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud. (Forthcoming).
“How We Endure: A Conversation on Blackness with Esmaa Mohamoud.” In Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom exhibition catalog. (October 2018). Ed. Modou Dieng and Jesse Siegl.
“Taking Care.” In Amongst Friends exhibition catalog. (February 2018). Ed. Dario Calmese.
“New Feelings.” In New Feelings exhibition catalog. (February 2018). Ed. Modou Dieng.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
“A Great Day in Hip Hop – A Decade of Hip Hop Style’s Influences,” special project for Fashion and Race Database and Tommy Hilfiger, April 6, 2022. https://fashionandrace.org/database/a-great-day-in-hip-hop/.
“Eartha Kitt,” special project for Fashion and Race Database and Tommy Hilfiger, April 6, 2022. https://fashionandrace.org/database/eartha-kitt/.
Feeling It Out: What We Do When We Get Together, collaborative essay with Camille Bacon, Rikki Byrd, Doriana Diaz, Carla Forbes, Amari Arrindell, and Kanyinsola Anifwoshe. In Studio Magazine. (Harlem: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2022). https://studiomuseum.org/article/feeling-it-out-what-we-do-when-we-get-together