Recent Publications

book projects here || sound art & performance here

forthcoming…

“Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams” in Sanctuary Spaces (eds. Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky), Duke UP
Transnational Black Studies, ed. SA Smythe, Liverpool Univ. Press
Calling the Conjurers: Technologies for Black Life & Study [edited volume w/ Logic(s)]
Neither/Nor/Necessity: Anarchiving Black Life [essay collection]

recent publications

“Black Life, Trans Study: On Black Nonbinary Method, European Trans Studies, & the Will to Institutionalization,” (2021) (read)
“Technologies of Black Freedoms Calling On Black Studies Scholars” Logic Magazine issue 15, “Beacons” (2022) (read here)
“Trump, Conte, and Comparison in the Authoritarian World Order,” (2018), National Political Science Review
“Enfants métis et relations sexuelles interraciales en Afrique orientale italienne,” (2018), Sexe, race et colonies
“Can I Get a Witness? Black Feminism, Trans Embodiment & Thriving Past the Fault Lines of Care” Palimpsest (2022) (read)
“Unsettle the Struggle, Trouble the Grounds” (2020), PMC, “Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, Indigeneity” (read)
“Queer of Color Space-Making in and beyond the Academic Industrial Complex,” (2018),  Critical Ethnic Studies (read)
“What Is to Be Done? A Foreword, After” (2020) Forum for Modern Language Study, Oxford (read)
“Requiem for the Death Droppers: Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism & the Trans / Queer Ungovernable” (2023) (read)
“The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of Imagination,” (2018) Middle East Report: “Suffering & the Limits of Relief”
“Black Girlhood Remains” (2022), in A Global History of Black Girlhood, edited by, Corinne Field & LaKisha Simmons, UI Press
“Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field” (with Charlotte Ross & Julia Heim), (2019), Italian Studies
“Resounding Shadows: Visual Journey through {spirit forged},” Marchal & Wilcox eds, Queer & Trans Studies in Religion (2024) (read)
“Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi, Depiction of a Jinbandaa, C. 1665–68” (2023) Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects eds. Frantz, Linden & Vargas (read)
“Black Italianità: Citizenship & Belonging in the Black Mediterranean” (2020), CIS Journal: Italia senza frontiere
“Cops off Campus & Everywhere Else: A Conversation” Society & Space: Making Abolition in Geography (2022) (read)

edited volumes & journals

Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism & Indigeneity Postmodern Culture (2021), edited by SA Smythe (read)
gender / sexuality / italy vol. 6: “Italian Queer Cultures” (2019) co-edited by Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross and SA Smythe (read)
Johannesburg Salon, Vol. 8: Archives of the Non-Racial, (2015) JWTC editor, Achille Mbembe, volume guest editor SA Smythe
THEM lit: a trans literary journal founding editor jos charles, co-editors SA Smythe & Emerson Whitney (2014-2017)

selected poetry, public scholarship, arts criticism & academic reviews

in When Language Broke Open anthology edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez (2023)
“some call it a comeback” in The Feminist Wire – Trans Multitudes series (read)
“On the need to claim (physical) QTBIPOC spaces” (with gens QTBPOC collective), contemp+orary (read)
“Ekphrastic Suite for Meleko Mokgosi’s Spaces of Subjection” catalogue
“How Europe’s Racism And Misogyny Led to Lampedusa Tragedy“ okayafrica (read)
“Complicity and Resistance: Review of Sandra Ponzanesi’s The Postcolonial Cultural Industry” (read)
“sustaining // remnants of their girlhood” in Apogee Journal 16 (read)
“Italy Is Not Just Racist, It’s Anti-Black (on Robert Calderoli & Cécile Kyenge), okayafrica (read)
“An Offering” in We Have Never Asked Permission to Sing: Poetry Celebrating Trans Resilience, edited by Kemi Alabi (read)
“Choose Your Quarantine House (parts I – IV)” in Catapult | Poetry (read)
“Rictus,” “Qui è dove si trova la follia,” “La punta di spillo segna dove sei,” “familiare” in La Libellula
“Ending, the Archive” & “You cannot ordain the end of times of disillusion with a wave of your hand,” the Johannesburg Salon, vol. 8