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Publications

  •  "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.

  • “Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership”. 2021. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Berghahn Journals, New York & Oxford. 

  • “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. 

  • “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

  • "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.

  • "A Genre of Their Own: Black Girlhood and Cinema".  Stockton Childhood Studies Series. Rutgers University-Camden. November, 2025.

  • “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.​

  • "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.

  • "This Misappropriation of Intersectionality". New York Times TalkTowson University. April 2018.

Background Image: The Fits (2016)

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