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“Assembling Kin, Becoming Compost” responds to Helga Jakobson’s Sympoietic Sound, mounted at Ace Art Inc. Thinking through Jakobson’s work in conversation with Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding-with” other beings, intuitive witchcraft, and the economy, this essay appears as part of the Critical Distance series. Find it online or download a copy.


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“About Inflammation: Skins/scapes and Gestures of Defiance” is a fleshy essay in response to, and in conversation with, the exhibit “Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet” curated by Noor Bhangu at Gallery 1C03 . You can download a PDF version of the exhibition catalogue, which also features a curatorial essay by Noor and poems by Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai, here.


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Witness to the “ghosts of public sex” (so-called by Muñoz), these hand-forged objects have hauntingly endured (albeit in slow decay), while their human counterparts moved on, fell to the AIDS epidemic hollowing out queer communities in the 90s, or likewise remain somewhere, also in decay. These objects speak across time, stand in for memories and performances of queer pleasure that disrupted public space by rendering the public queer. Each metal tool is a carnal remnant, a gravestone, a proxy body, that reminds: we have always existed, no matter how covertly.

"The Tangled Roots of Haunted Queer Publics: Derek Dunlop's PARK," an exhibition essay on excavation, queer history, and materializing absent archives in the work of Derek Dunlop. Read online here or download the PDF here


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"What Was Denied Us: Reconstituting Memory with the Bodily Drawn Mark," critical writing, on drawing as a form of visual witness and memory practice for Post-Yugoslav Balkan artists in diaspora in the Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) Fall Newsletter 2018. Read it online here or download the PDF here.  


In the last 23 years, the Sarajevo Film Festival has come to stand for the renewed hope of the city, of the region, for a life beyond the trauma of war but not without its memory. Instead, it offers that the past can build bridges as well as destroy them, and is a testament to the ability of art to restore humanity in the face of terror. It is here where we see most clearly what Gandini refers to as the “Sarajevo spirit where Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Jews have been living together for centuries, exchanging culture and maintaining their own traditions, a people with no intention of dividing under the deadly pressure of ethnic cleansing.” Here, in this oversold theatre, in the afternoon heat, we choose to be, and to witness, together. We choose to be together, in spite of what has come before us and in anticipation of what will follow.

"2017 Sarajevo Film Festival, exhibition review",  Border Crossings, Issue 144, December 2017. Purchase a copy here. 


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"A Taxonomy of Loss," grieving a complicated figure in vignettes , Lumen Magazine. Find it online


 "Reconfiguring the Sick Girl in Young Adult Literature: Worlds Where We Might Belong," review essay, applying Johanna Hevda's Sick Woman Theory to rethink the chronically sick hero/ine in YA literature and expanding who is granted a girlhood (and who isn't), that ran in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures Vol 8, No 2, 2016. Read it online here or download a PDF here.