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BOOKS
Author, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, Macmillan, 2021
Contributor, Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears, by Brandon Stousy, Simon & Schuster, 2023
Contributor, The Slow Grind: Practising Hope and Imagination, by Georgina Johnson, 2023
ONLINE
Andscape: Maya Cade’s Black Film Archive Is Just The Beginning
Refinery29: Reclaiming Narratives Around Black Bodues & Sexuality
SEEN Journal: Saint Heron Centers the Intimacy of Black Dance Films
AWARDS, RECOGNITION, APPEARANCES
Indiewire Critics Academy Fellow, 2012
Featured Speaker, The New School Afrofuturism Conference, 2015
NABJ Award Nominee for Best Commentary, August 2016
Webby Winner for Public Service & Activism Video (MTV’s “Decoded”), 2017
Panelist, Center For Fiction Black Women In Pop Culture Roundtable, 2021
Keynote Speaker, Northwestern University Black Studies Symposium, May 2023
Jury President, Indie Memphis Film Festival, October 2023
Featured Speaker, Black Women Radicals Summit, August 2023