A list of titles written for FNewsmagazine
Tales From the Exercise Bed: How a disability bed baptized my imagination and made me into a storyteller (Apr. 2021)
To Thine Own “Soul” Be True: Pixar chooses to stay apolitical. In “Soul,” does this work? (Mar. 2021)
Black Reparations and American Imperialism in Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee’s new film goes far in its critique, but not far enough (Nov. 2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Straight White Masculine Things: Charlie Kaufman’s message to an uncertain American future (Oct. 2020)
“White Snake”’s White Knight Problem: Another adventure film, another undervalued female hero (Mar. 2020)
Desolation & Complicity, SAIC’s Fall 2019 BFA Show: A close look at two of the pieces in this year’s exhibition (Jan. 2020)
The Perils of Panels, 1619 Project at SAIC: The difficulties of condensing 400 years of racial injustice into a two-hour panel (Nov. 2019)
The 2020 Poll Games: An outline of the policies and pasts of 10 candidates running in the 2020 Democratic primaries (Oct. 2019)
100 Days of Lightfoot: A rundown of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first State of the City address (Sep. 2019)