Writing
writing
My writing takes place primarily within academic contexts in the form of journal articles, book and art reviews, and my current book project. These lines of inquiry focus primarily on the politics of gender, sexuality, migration, and race in and through the body and aesthetics/cultural production.
“Relational Generativity in South African Queer Nightlife.”
Queer Nightlife. Eds. Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2021.
“Lawful Performance and Representational Politics of Queer African Refugees in Documentary Film.”
Journal of African Cultural Studies. 33.1 (2021): 67-83.
“Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement.”
Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. Eds. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma Chavez. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
“A circle made by walking.”
The Brooklyn Rail. March 2020.
“Gay Liberation Front,” “FTM International,” and “No Past, No Present, No Future (1973, Yulisa Amadu Maddy)”
in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Ed. by Howard Chiang. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019.
Prominently Performing blackness in the "rainbow nation"
Athi-Patra Ruga's the future White women of Azania, Women and performance: a journal of feminist theory 27.1 (2017): 67-80.
A Queer Memory: guilt, disappearance, and the youtube 'archive'
in A tyranny of documents : the performing arts historian as film noir detective. ed. Stephen Johnson. 2011.
Applied theatre: Resettlement--Drama, refugees and resilience by Michael Balfour, et al. (book review)
Theatre Survey 58.2 (2017): 261-263.
“Dancing toward Freedom: Queering South African Liberation.”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 27.4 (2021): 655-658
“In Search of a Desi Drag Queen: Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani.”
Performance Research. 26.8 (2021):135-136
“Tau(n)tology: Tannie Evita’s Stewardship of South Africa’s National Transitions.”
Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3 (2022): 264-283
South African Performance and Archives of Memory by Yvette Hutchinson (book review)
Theatre Research International 39.3 (2014): 248-249.