Newer writing (2025-present) found on Substack.
Blog Highlights:
- LAPL Resignation Letter
- Pandemic Racial Justice Series:
– Thinking Through “Cougar Town” (April 19, 2020)
– Running Towards Justice (May 9, 2020)
– On Plunder (June 1, 2020)
– Entering Abolition (June 7, 2020)
– Disarming Shaun King (June 17, 2020)
– “Hamilton:” Triumph, or Triumphalism? (July 13, 2020)
– Against Brene (August 8, 2020)
– The 2020 Ticket (August 11, 2020)
– On Accountability (September 13, 2020)
– Pre-Election Thoughts (November 2, 2020)
– Post-Election Thoughts (November 4, 2020)
– January 6 (January 6, 2021)
– Disarming Shaun King, Pt 2 (January 14, 2021)
– Reopening (March 18, 2021)
– Abolition, Now (May 3, 2021)
– Is Vox OK? (Dec 13, 2022; from summer 2021) - On Weinstein
- My Fractal Heart
- Thinking Through the MCU
- “I Want to Believe:” Scully, “The X-Files,” & Feminism
- Anticipating (or not) “The X-Files” Season 10
- Going Home
- The Myth of the Indispensable Man
- Santa Rosa: A Love Letter
- Notes from South America
- Hip-Hop & Technology
- Hope & Change: Thoughts from 2008
- Lies New Urbanism Told Me
- The Futility of Violent Protection
- The Limits of Minimalism
- Andorra & Empire
- On Idealism
- On Depression
- On Loss
- On Showing Up
- Nobody Knows How to Fund This: A Brief History of the Arts
- Our Dumpsters, Ourselves
- A White Girl Like You
- The Inheritance of Plunder
- Fantasy, Fascism, & The Catholic Church
- Les Mis, Musicals, & the Art of Criticism
- On Activism
- The Power & Perils of Storytelling
- Girl-on-‘Girls’
- In Defense of Sansa Stark
- The Merits of ‘Miss Congeniality’
- Carried Urban Landscapes
- In Celebration of Books (& People)
- On Occupy, Part I & II
- Twilight: It’s the Worst
- The Rules of Television Feminism
- On Food & Cooking
- “Ghostbusters,” Rape Culture, & Telling Better Stories
- Reinvention
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Parts I, II, III, & IV
- Jane Jacobs
- Examining Automophilia, Parts I & II
- My Beef with “Glee”
- On Oscar Grant
- Healthcare Reality
- The Way We Live
- Getting Schooled, Parts I, II, & III
- Franzen’s Freedom
- Unpacking Betty’s Knapsack
- Tenure
- Finding Dignity in Food Stamps
- Joblessness v. Uselessness
- Book Review: Empire of Illusion
- The Last Racebender
- A Manifesto…ish
Other Writing:
- Hobo Pancakes
Highlights:
– Worldwide: Pitbull in a Post-Embargo Era
– Sierra Maestra
– A Night With Officer Monty
– Cruelty-Free Cocaine
– Dane Cook: Live From Mogadishu
– Past Help: King Louis XIV, Ada Lovelace, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Hippocrates of Kos, Hildegarde von Bingen
– Ask Papa Ratzi: Kanye, Judy Blume, Vladmir Putin I, II, III, IV - Cleveland Scene
- Grist Magazine
- The Billfold
- RustWire
- Oakland Local
- The Molotov Cocktail
- Salon