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Selected Writing

On Labour, Liberty and Art / Studio Magazine (link to issue)

In Search of New Ground: Black Art and the Natural World / BlackFlash

Material Memories / Studio Magazine

Melancholy Letters / Hazlitt

The End of Progress / Hazlitt

Learning to be a Black man without knowing my father / NOW

My trip to the Peace Park in Nagasaki / NOW

In/Tension (Podcast)

Conversation with artist June Clark

Conversation with artist Sin Wai Kin

Conversation with artist Rajni Perera

Conversation with artist Raven Davis

Conversation with artist Kosisochukwu Nnebe

Conversation with artist Oluseye

Conversation with artist Timothy Yanick Hunter

Conversation with artist Ken Lum

Conversation with artist Anique Jordan

Reviews

Do Ho Suh’s Anti-Monument Arrives at the Smithsonian Museum / Ocula

The Best Shows to See During Art Toronto / Frieze

Brown Boy / by Omer Aziz / Quill & Quire

Ordinary Notes / by Christina Sharpe / Quill & Quire

Kapwani Kiwanga Makes a Petri Dish Out of Our World / Frieze

Together / Apart / Ciel Variable (link to issue)

Daniel Lind-Ramos’ Pathways to Rememberance at MoMA PS1 / Ocula

Practice as Ritual/Ritual as Practice / Momus

In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire: Kochi-Muziris Biennale / Ocula

Marla Hlady and Christof Migone’s Whisky-Infused Resonances / Frieze

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Beyond the Myth / Ocula

Denyse Thomasos posthumous exhibit pays homage to towering talent / Toronto Star

The 58th Carnegie International Overwhelms, as it Intends / Ocula

FRONT 2022: Can Art Heal Cleveland? / Ocula

Making Do and Getting Over: Wayne Salmon’s Portraits of Black Belonging in Kensington Market / Momus

Toronto Biennial of Art Moves from Land to Water in 2022/ Ocula

At The Power Plant in Toronto, Three Artists Disrupt Colonial Legacies / Ocula

On Freedom: Songs of Care and Constraint / by Maggie Nelson / Humber Literary Review

Fragments of Epic Memory / Group Exhibition / Ocula

Saga Boy / by Antonio Michael Downing / Humber Literary Review

Falling for Myself / by Dorothy Ellen Palmer / Humber Literary Review

Proof I Was Here / by Becky Blake / Humber Literary Review

BlackLife / by Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi / NOW

The Water Dancer / by Ta-Nehisi Coates / NOW

The Beautiful Ones / by Prince / NOW

Interviews

Curator Gaëtane Verna on Her Path to Venice and What Follows

June Clark: How to Come to Terms with the World / Ocula

Lubaina Himid on ‘Thinking, Feeling, and Holding Back’ / Ocula

Stanley Whitney on Dream Time and Going Where the Work Takes Him / Ocula

Curator Kimberli Gant on the legacy of Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club / Ocula

“Sink Back In To What Was Lost” an interview with Jonathan Escoffery / Hazlitt

“I think there is a huge disconnect in the art world” an interview with artist Ken Lum / Ocula

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic” an interview with Kenneth Montague / NOW

“The Legacy of Presence” an interview with artist Sandra Brewster / Canadian Art

“Author Marlon James finds sensual and queer inspirations in ancient Africa” / NOW

Columns

Mark Saunders’s candidacy for mayor of Toronto is untenable / Globe and Mail

COVID: at a crossroads for Toronto’s Black communities / NOW

Addressing anti-Black racism in post-secondary institutions can transform Canada after the COVID-19 pandemic / The Conversation

Amid stormy waters, Toronto’s police chief drifts away / Globe and Mail

What white people still don’t understand / Toronto Star

College admissions scandal example of long-standing inequality / Toronto Star

Liam Neeson’s interview can be a teachable moment around anti-black racism / Globe and Mail

Research

This issue has been with us for ages / Community-based research project / LogicalOutcomes