This page includes a selection of essays published online. For a comprehensive list of publications, speaking invitations, and related work, please refer to my CV.
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📝 Selected Zines
Title: The First Amendment and You
Date: July 2020
Description: "This zine is meant as a quick primer on your rights under the US first amendment, especially with regards to freedom to assemble, peaceful civil disobedience"-Brown Recluse Zine distro website
Link: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_Ammendment_and_You.html?id=W6tczgEACAAJ
Date: July 2020
Description: "This zine is meant as a quick primer on your rights under the US first amendment, especially with regards to freedom to assemble, peaceful civil disobedience"-Brown Recluse Zine distro website
Link: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_Ammendment_and_You.html?id=W6tczgEACAAJ
Title: "Utilizing the Deep Web Towards Black Liberation"
Date: July 2020
Description: Originally published as a 6-page zine, this work is now archived and available online at the link below.
Date: July 2020
Description: Originally published as a 6-page zine, this work is now archived and available online at the link below.
📠 Essays:
- Time Fetish: An essay on the sensual and philosophical dimensions of time, media loops, and digital smoothness as symptoms of a broader cultural obsession with control.
- Why Aren’t Pictures Grainy Anymore: A lyrical elegy to image degradation, this essay laments the loss of poor-quality digital artifacts—once unintentional but poetic reflections of time, memory, and technological imperfection—in today’s hyper-optimized visual world.
- On Why I Have Decided to Paint Myself White: This essay delves into the complexities of race, identity, and performance, exploring the symbolic weight of "whiteness" in both personal and societal contexts, and reflecting on how these concepts shape one’s body and art.