forthcoming
“Can I Get a Witness? Black Feminism, Trans Embodiment, Thriving Past the Fault Lines of Care,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. [1-33]
“Black Girlhood Remains,” in A Global History of Black Girlhood, edited by LaKisha Simmons and Corinne Field. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, [1–18].
recent publications
“Black Life, Trans Study: On Black Nonbinary Method, European Trans Studies, & the Will to Institutionalization,” (2021), TSQ: “Europa” (read)
“What Is to Be Done? A Foreword, After” (2020) Forum for Modern Language Study 1-4 (read)
“Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex,” (with P. Bacchetta, F. El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, J. Hernandez, V.E. Thompson, and T. Willoughby-Herard) (2018), Critical Ethnic Studies Journal (read)
Black Italianità: Citizenship and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean (2020), California Italian Studies: “Italia senza frontiere (Borderless Italy)” (read)
“The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of Imagination,” (2018) Middle East Report: “Suffering and the Limits of Relief” (read)
“Enfants métis et relations sexuelles interraciales en Afrique orientale italienne,” (2018), Sexe, race et colonies
“Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field” (with Charlotte Ross & Julia Heim), (2019), Italian Studies (read)
co- editor (with Julia Heim and Charlotte Ross), (2019), gender / sexuality / italy: “Italian Queer Cultures” (read)
“Trump, Conte, and Comparison in the Authoritarian World Order,” (2018), National Political Science Review
edited volumes
editor, Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity (2021), Postmodern Culture (read)
co-editor (with Julia Heim and Charlotte Ross), (2019), gender / sexuality / italy: “Italian Queer Cultures” (read)
guest editor (w/ Achille Mbembe), (2015) Johannesburg Salon, Vol. 8: Archives of the Non-Racial, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism
recent poetry, public scholarship, reviews
“Choose Your Quarantine House” in Catapult
“some call it a comeback” in The Feminist Wire – Trans Multitudes
“Postcolonialism and the Cultural Industry: Complicity and Resistance: Review of The Postcolonial Cultural Industry by Sandra Ponzanesi,” (2016), Postcolonial Studies (read)
“Italy Is Not Just Racist, It’s Anti-Black,” okayafrica
“How Europe’s Racism And Misogyny Led To The Lampedusa Tragedy“
“An Offering” in We Have Never Asked Permission to Sing: Poetry Celebrating Trans Resilience.
“On the need to claim (physical) QTBIPOC spaces” (with gens QTBPOC collective), (2017), contemp+orary .
“Rictus,” “Qui è dove si trova la follia,” “La punta di spillo segna dove sei,” “familiare” four poems in La Libellula Magazine
