
Publications
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"Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership". 2025. Girls Take Action: Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women edited by Catherine Vanner, Berghahn. pp. 169-186.
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“Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership”. 2021. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Berghahn Journals, New York & Oxford.
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“Changelings in Chicago”. 2020. Review of Southside Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Berghahn Journals, New York & Oxford.
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“A History of Resilience”. 2019. Review of Black Girlhood in the 19th Century by Nazera Sadiq Wright. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Berghahn Journals, New York & Oxford.

Conferences & Talks
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"Aesthetics of Resonance in the 'Afterlife of Slavery': Filmic Representations of Black Girl/Hood(s)". Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference. Upcoming: February, 2026.
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"A Genre of Their Own: Black Girlhood and Cinema". Stockton Childhood Studies Series. Rutgers University-Camden. November, 2025.
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“Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership”. Girls Take Action: Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women Book Launch. Virtual, March 2025.
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"FindingBlackGirlhood: A Digital Archive". Department of Childhood Studies and Gender Studies. The Mundanity of Girlhood: Pleasure, Play, and the Everyday. Girlhood Studies Collective; Rutgers University. April, 2024.
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"This Misappropriation of Intersectionality". New York Times Talk. Towson University. April 2018.

Background Image: The Fits (2016)