PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
ESSAYS
“The fight for an Otherwise: Why the protests in Iran are about more than just women’s rights.” The Conversationalist. October 18, 2022
“Critical Animal Studies has a race problem.” Mobilizing Ideas, The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame; and the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society Section Newsletter. October/November 2020.
“The revolution will not be humanized.” The Conversationalist. June 5, 2020. Shared by RaceBaitr June 6, 2020. Shared by RaceBaitr June 7, 2020.
“Jay-Z’s 4:44 Moves Black Radical Thought Through and Beyond the Classroom.” CounterPunch. December 15, 2017. Republished in The Black Scholar (Routledge) December 21, 2017.
“Notions of Aryan Iranianness Must Be Rejected.” With Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki, Nasrin Rahimieh, and Parisa Vaziri. Letter, The Chronicle of Higher Education. September 13, 2017.
“An Open Letter to Iranian/American Academics and Scholars in the United States.” With Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki, Nasrin Rahimieh, and Parisa Vaziri. Medium. September 14, 2017.
“An Open Letter to Duke University’s Class of 2007, About Your Open Letter to Stephen Miller.” CounterPunch. March 24, 2017. Republished in The Black Scholar (Routledge) April 5, 2017.
“DAPL and the Matter/ing of Black Life.” The Feminist Wire. November 30, 2016. December 8, 2016. Republished in The Black Scholar (Routledge) December 8, 2016.
“New interdisciplinary resource, Black Lives Matter, introduces 6-12th graders to antiblack violence in U.S. law and society.” The Feminist Wire. August 17, 2015. Linked to Fox News August 23, 2015, The Daily Caller August 21, 2015, Fusion August 27, 2015, and Public Philosophy Journal August 18, 2015.
“It’s a hard knox life for a Duke woman who likes sex: An open letter to Belle Knox from the old guard.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. March 12, 2014.
“Understanding antiblack racism as species-ism: Reflections on Richard Sherman’s affective excess and the Twitterverse’s response.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. January 22, 2014. Republished in Racialicious: The intersection of race and popular culture. January 29, 2014. Linked to The Nation January 23, 2014.
“Trayvon Martin nativity scene co-opts Black erasure, urges victims to be ‘nonviolence, loving, [and] forgiving’.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. December 27, 2013.
“Justine Sacco tweet not wrong, because we would never let white people die at those rates.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. December 21, 2013.
“Kanye West I.Q. petition reeks of scientific racism.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. December 17, 2013.
“Reading Beyoncé’s ‘Superpower’ as a love letter to Black radical insurgency: An open letter to white feminists who want to remind us that Beyoncé’s music is just ‘art’.” JFCB: Popular Culture, Critical Theory, and the Limits of a Liberal Humanist Discourse. December 15, 2013. Republished in Racialicious: The intersection of race and popular culture. December 23, 2013. Linked to Hiphopocracy. January 6, 2014.
PODCASTS
“On love, bell hooks, and our climate crisis,” Extinction Rebellion Radio. New York City and Pacifica Radio Network. December 2022.
“Unbreaking Media: Our kind of feminism.” The Conversationalist, Episode 2. March 24, 2022.
“Sylvia Wynter, ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom.’” Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast, Episode 57. June 28, 2018.
“Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive.” Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast, Episode 54. February 6, 2018.
“On the Cornel West – Ta-Nehisi Coates Brouhaha.” Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast. December 20, 2017.
“Calvin Warren and Frank Wilderson III on Antiblackness, Nihilism, and Politics.” Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast, Episode 48. May 5, 2017.
“Get Out” (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017). Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast, Episode 47 (minute 45:00 – 55:00). March 6, 2017.
“Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks.” Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast, Episode 43. October 4, 2016.
interviews
“Becoming bell hooks.” Kentucky Educational Television (KET/PBS). February 27, 2024.
“Author bell hooks, Butterfly Greenhouse, and More.” Kentucky Life. Kentucky Educational Television (KET/PBS). Season 28, Episode 16. May 20, 2023.
“The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. March 13, 2023.
“Late Kentucky scholar dropped from AP African American Studies curriculum.” Lex 18 News (NBC). February 6, 2023.
“Ky. author's books being removed from AP course curriculum.” WKYT News (CBS). February 6, 2023.
bell hooks day coverage, Kentucky edition, Kentucky Educational Television (KET/PBS). September 22, 2022.
“Berea College celebrates first bell hooks day.” FOX 56 News. September 21, 2022.
“The critic of our time: An interview on bell hooks’ life, love and legacy.” The Platform. July 20, 2022.
“Here’s what bell hooks’ friends and colleagues want you to remember about her.” NPR. December 29, 2021.