In one month, my book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, will be published. If you can, please pre-order the book. Also, I’ll be in Miami and New York City for two book-related events in March.
Read MoreTeaching at the Universität der Kunste Berlin
Teaching at the Arts School in Berlin.
Read MoreRoad Trip
As someone born and raised in Miami, driving through the state allows me to work through the many contradictions of the place I once called home. Although I have not lived in Florida since I was eighteen, understanding the ways that like-minded people continue to uphold pregnant people's bodily autonomy is important to me. I want to comprehend how pro-choice activists, medical staff, and lawyers continue to fight against a repressive government that has rescinded women’s rights, gay rights, and transgender rights over the past decade.
Read MoreContributing Writer for Frieze Magazine
Now that I am a contributing writer for Frieze, I will be writing more art exhibition reviews and profiles.
Read MoreThe Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for 2023
The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts.
Read MoreAfter Sex Book Launch
After Sex provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women.
Read MoreSome of my book reviews
The fall has brought a whirlwind of interviews with neuroscientists, activists, and writers. I published two book reviews in the Washington Post and The Nation.
Read MoreRecipient of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation Grant
The funding will allow me to continue researching and writing about abortion access, as I have done in my upcoming co-edited anthology, After Sex (Silver Press, 2023). As many people know, reproductive freedom continues to be dear to my heart, and I want to narrate stories that move us enough to grant justice to all. More than anything, I am grateful for my friends, comrades, and interlocutors who put confidence in my prose.
Read MoreA Word about Haiti, Abortion, and Art
Some highlights from my recent essays in Esquire, The Nation, and Frieze.
Read MoreSome News
An announcement about my upcoming books.
Read MoreInterview in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
My collaborator and I went through a pandemic, coordinated from different time zones, and underwent major life changes. We were mourning our past lives while also holding dear to our labor and our commitment to producing scholarship about medicine, disease, and psychiatry.
Read MoreIn conversation with an Afrofuturist
Die Kuratorin und Afrofuturistin Ingrid LaFleur entwirft neue Narrative für Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Ein Gespräch über intersektionale Kunst, ihr politisches Engagement und den Begriff der Utopie im Afrofuturismus.
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