Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry applicationThis was written while applying for The New School’s Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry summer program 2024. The application was for…Aug 5Aug 5
Fract/al Subjects*This essay was written for a graduate course on race and technology. The primary text for the piece is Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Toward a…Jun 27Jun 27
Sans-Soucci Plantation*This essay was written for a graduate theory course. The primary text for this piece is Michel-Roplh Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power…Jun 27Jun 27
The Apostate Revolutionary(this short creative essay is based on the book _Whither Fanon_ by David Marriott)Mar 21Mar 21
Black Reconstruction as a PortalThis piece was written as a cover letter application for the 2022–2023 Black Reconstruction Fellowship at UC IrvineDec 31, 2022Dec 31, 2022
I Mumbled At the Fire“Silence often denotes something that is suppressed or repressed and is an interiority that is about withholding, absence, and stillness…Apr 22, 2022Apr 22, 2022
A Foray into African StudiesThese remarks were given at a University of California African Studies workshop held at UC Berkleley in March 2022.Apr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022
Review of Frank Wilderson’s _Afropessimism_“Althusser writes about the three great fatherless children of modernity: Marx, Nietsche, and Freud. And then ya know you get from those…Apr 3, 2022Apr 3, 2022
Of What to the Slave is Juneteenth?Racial slavery remains an under-theorized and misunderstood condition.Jun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021