recent work

BORDER ECOLOGIES: Injera’s Microbial Autonomy mold magazine may 2025

MIKE cult classic (cover story) oct 2024

The Politics of Black Portraiture art + practice spring 2024

Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present momus sep 2023

reflections on Saint Omer Black Life july 2023

Space is the Place Cult Classic june 2023

Mirrors & Mines: Digital Soul Searching arkive feb 2023

Ground Plus Empty Deem Journal nov 2022

on Killer of Sheep Black Life july 2022

Land to the Tiller! A Review of Haile Gerima’s Harvest: 3,000 Years seen nov 2021

food COLUMN

Food Writing Could Be Better, But It Will Need to Get Unappetizing First nov 2020

When Corporations Attempt Mutual Aid oct 2020

Food Technology Might Be More Efficient. But Is it Better? sept 2020

Who Pays the True Cost of Dining Out During a Pandemic? aug 2020

This Wave of Reckoning in Food Media is Different, But There's More Work to Do july 2020

Eating at Black-Owned Restaurants Isn't Going to Save Us june 2020

select ESSAYS & PROFILES

Oakland Celebrates the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program the guardian

How Oakland’s Underground Music Scene Survived Silicon Valley the guardian

Arthur Jafa Turns His Lens to Whiteness the guardian

Boots Riley's radical vision the fader

2018: The Bay Area’s Banner Year in Film kqed

Kahlil Joseph Broadcasts the Vastness of Black Life in ‘BLKNWS‘ kqed

Berkeley Blooms  sf moma open space

select INTERVIEWS

Stepping Into Character with Dijon ssense

The Secret Ingredient is Always Kelis ssense

Enter ThugPop’s Fantasy World ssense

Nia Wilson’s rap group Girlz N The Hood is keeping her legacy alive the fader

bbymutha Should Be Your Favorite Rapper ssense

ALLBLACK is carrying Oakland's complicated rap legacy the fader