Selected writing
On abolition in public libraries Teen Vogue
On the psychedelic history of holograms Art in America
On Minneapolis’s sanctuary movement The Baffler
On radical gardening Hyperallergic
On art and friendship Catalogue essay
On Hilma af Klint’s secret notebooks Frieze
On the capitalist hellscape of a for-profit cancer hospital The Baffler
On the spectacular desert The Baffler
On Grant Wood’s queer midwest Los Angeles Review of Books
On Virginia Woolf’s pencil Ploughshares
On the female quantified self Iowa Review
On my life as a butterfly-wrangler The Common
On the Florida memoir and the state of post-truth Los Angeles Review of Books
On 70s London, glamour & the sadness of photography Los Angeles Review of Books
On slow criticism Temporary Art Review
On space photography Invisible Culture: Electronic Journal of Visual Culture
Projects
Sometimes I work with and for artists. I was the research coordinator for Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures, I created this experimental museum tour for the RISD Museum, and wrote this strange play Umbrellahead, I Will Find You, in Hong Kong.