Humanities
"Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women" in Theatre Research in Canada, 39 (1), 227-241
For close to two decades Trey Anthony has carved out a successful career as a published and produced playwright in Canada in a national theatre landscape where few playwrights enjoy sustained success. This is, in part, because Anthony is also an entrepreneur who identified Black women in Canada as a financially viable and lucrative target […]
"Black Lives Matter Toronto Sit-In at PRIDE" in Until We're Free: Black Lives Matter in Canada, 263-275.
Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more.
"Black girl thought in the work of Ntozake Shange" in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12 (2), 32-47
In this article I examine the performances of black girlhood in two texts by Ntozake Shange—the choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” (1977) and the novel Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo (1982). The black girls whom Shange portrays navigate anti-black racism in their communities, domestic violence in their homes, […]
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
"Austin Clarke's 'Saga Boys': Black Aesthetics as Epistemology?" in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 42, 76-95
Austin Clarke in Nine Men Who Laughed and Ebony Patterson in her Gangstas for Life series both inspire an investigation of the way in which the “Black dandy” is an index of Black aesthetics as epistemology. Via a dialogue between Clarke’s Black male dandies of the post 1960s Toronto in his short stories and Patterson’s […]
"Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing" in Beyond "Understanding Canada:" in Transnational Perspective on Canadian Literature
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside […]
Everything Remains Raw: Photographic Toronto's Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital
A photographic excavation of Toronto's hip hop archive, ...Everything Remains Raw draws on photographs of Kardinal Offishall, Michie Mee, Dream Warriors, Maestro, Drake, Director X, and others by Michael Chambers, Sheinina Raj, Demuth Flake, Craig Boyko, Nabil Shash, Patrick Nichols, and Stella Fakiyesi to offer a deep dive in hip hop's visual culture. An intentional intersection of […]
"Scratch, Look & Listen: Improvisatory Poetics and Digital DJ Interfaces" in Critical Studies in Improvisation, 10 (1), 1-10
Since 2004, digital interfaces have become the dominant mode in which professional hip hop DJs perform for their audiences. There are a number of benefits and drawbacks to utilizing digital interfaces, such as increased or decreased abilities to improvise. This essay explores the impacts of digital interfaces on the hip hop DJ's abilities to improvise […]