Featured Publications
The Complicated Characterization of WEDNESDAY’s Bianca and Lucas
In Celebration of Wong’s Character Growth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW Gives Jennifer Walters the Support She Deserves
Owning the Story
How DOCTOR WHO's 'Rosa' Episode Stays (Mostly) True to History
Doctor Who Continues to Inflict Violence on Black Characters
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Doctor Who
How DOCTOR WHO’s ‘Rosa’ Episode Stays (Mostly) True to History (Nerdist)
DOCTOR WHO Continues to Inflict Violence on Black Characters (Nerdist)
DOCTOR WHO and the Would-Be Companions That Weren’t (Nerdist)
How The Doctor Leaves a Path of Destruction on DOCTOR WHO (Nerdist)
Let’s Talk About Yaz! A Reaction to Flux Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse (The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Podcast)
Welcome to the End of the World (And the Wibbly Wobbly TImey Wimey Podcast!) (The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Podcast)
Harry Potter
Sacrificial Narratives: The Exploitation of Ariana Dumbledore in Harry Potter (Black Nerds Create)
How do the Character Descriptions in ‘Harry Potter’ Hold Up 20 Years Later? (Black Nerds Create)
Revisiting Harry Potter’s Final Battle: Where Did All the Kreatures Go? (Black Nerds Create)
Historical
Our elementary school names honor principals, groundbreakers, friendship itself, MLK and RFK (Cambridge Day)
High school foundations date back to 1800s; Parents’ moral panics go back almost as far (Cambridge Day)
Marvel
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW Gives Jennifer Walters the Support She Deserves (Nerdist)
In Celebration of Wong’s Character Growth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Nerdist)
Television
The Complicated Characterization of WEDNESDAY’s Bianca and Lucas (Nerdist)
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All of the Interesting People are in Hell: Limbo vs. Paradise in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Interpretations of the Sirens’ Song Within Homer’s Odyssey and the Siren Vase
On the Sack of Troy and Greek Myth within Xena: Warrior Princess
Lost and Found: How the Tocharian Languages Reveal Answers and Raise New Questions
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Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig (trans. from the German by Karen Leeder)
The Great Passage by Shion Miura (trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
I Remember Nightfall by Marosa di Giorgio (trans. from the Spanish by Jeannine Marie Pitas)
For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu (note that this article was changed without my input or consent by the editors and thus contains language that I consider outdated and inappropriate)
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Hope 11.16.2021
Curated 10.26.2021
Why fanfiction is the only Harry Potter content for me 3.12.2021
My Fanfiction Journey 3.31.2021
The Garden: A Mediatation 10.14.2020
Words are Weapons: Nonbinary Trans Thoughts About J.K. Rowling 9.15.2020
Wizard v. Muggle Media & Thoughts About J.K. Rowling 6.24.2020
Hogwarts Pride: A Meditation on my Relationship with Harry Potter, Fandom, and Queer Identity 6.8.2020
BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. That’s Not Up For Debate. 6.3.2020
UPG vs. Headcanon: Two Sides of the Same Coin? 12.11.2019
Some Thoughts About Tarot Cards, Hogwarts Houses, and the Four Elements 6.27.2019
An Exploration of the Fundamental Points of Critical Race Theory 4.2.2019
What Does It Mean To Be Well-Read? 3.19.2019
On Belief and Reality 10.23.2018
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Doctor Who & The Crumbs They Feed Us — TARBIS Takeover 4.14.2022 (Recorded March 2021)
Whovian Creators of Color — Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight 2.19.2022
So You Want to Start a Podcast — Kuumba Kickback 10.17.2021
Neurodiversity in Fandoms — Kuumba Kickback 10.17.2021
September U35 Reading Series with Mass Poetry — Trident Booksellers & Cafe 9.21.2021
These Bewitching Bonds Launch Party — Black Girls Create Livestream 2.27.2021
30 Years / 30 Poems — Wizards in Space Livestream 8.11.2020
Accio Identity: How Harry Potter Shaped Us All — NerdCon: Nerdfighteria 2.25.2017
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Host
Into the Archives: A Fanfiction Podcast
The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Podcast
Wandering Troupe Poetry Readings
Guest
The Restricted Section — Detention with Delores feat. Talia Franks
Gallifrey Public Radio Episode 469 — And Introducing Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor
Interspectional Episode 9 — The Fanfiction Episode
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These Bewitching Bonds — A Black Nerds Create Anthology
Owning the Story
The Mother
The Hero
The Lover
Black Nerds Create
Word-for-Sense and Other Stories
pandemic: a poem for our times
Better for the Horse: A Medieval Welsh Meet-Cute
POST AND BEFORE a.k.a. I want breakfast
Jaded Magazine
a list of things that ___ people have said about ___ people in a particular order
on humor and racism
Ebony Axis
Hush
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The Dinosaur (El dinosaurio) by Augusto Monterroso (Word-for-Sense and Other Stories)
Pablo Neruda Sonnet 88 (LXXXVIII) from 100 Love Sonnets (Cien sonetos de amor) (Word-for-Sense and Other Stories)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ‘Con el dolor de la mortal herida’ (Word-for-Sense and Other Stories)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ‘En la vida que siempre tuya fue’ (Word-for-Sense and Other Stories)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ‘Si los riesgos del mar considerara’ (The Hard Work of Hope)