I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
-Audre Lorde
Academic & Creative Writing
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Social Welfare History Project (VCU Libraries)
“Precarious Learners: Race, Status and the Making of Virgin Islands Education from 1917-1970” (2023) was written through the support of a Virginia Commonwealth University Publishing Research Award. In it, I discuss the early educational history of the U.S. Virgin Islands and its relationship to projects of American imperialism in the region.
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The Caribbean Writer
“Jumbie Man” and “Like You Mommy” are two original poems published in the 36th edition of The Caribbean Writer: Disruptions, Disguises & Illuminations (2022).
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University of Curaçao Press
“Conserving America’s Paradise: Where the Fight for Land and Learning Meet” (2021) is a book chapter in Distancing as Infinite Entanglement: Healing, Intersectionality and Interstices in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean and Beyond. It discusses a portion of my dissertation research on conservation colonialism’s impact on educational aims on the island of St. John.
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Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
“Disrupting Whiteness: Jonin’ and the Fugitivity of Black Speech in American Public Schools” (2021) examines the way speech projects among Black urban public school students belong to a genealogy of Black fugitivity and resistance.
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Environmental History Now
“Politics of Nature: The Wait/Weight of Disaster in St. Vincent” (2021) is an autoethnographic appraisal of colonialism’s role in natural disasters and the way they can be mitigated.
“Human Fragility: The Condition We Fight to Escape” (2020) is a reflection on how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the disorders and fragility of of civil society as well as the racial and class dynamics inherent to crises.
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E3W - Ethnic & World Literatures
This article (2021) is a review of Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom. In it, I explore Cottom’s discussion of various aspects of the black female experience such as beauty, money, infant mortality, and sexual violence.
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History Workshop Online
“Problems of Possession: The Colonial History of Eco-Tourism in the Virgin Islands” (2021) analyzes the history of the Virgin Islands National Park and its relationship to present-day issues of dispossession and cultural erasure.
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Moko: Caribbean Arts & Letters
“Place of No Escape” (2020) interrogates white tourists’ desire to escape the troubles endemic to racialized modernity only to find it reiterated and reproduced in “paradise.”
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ProudFlesh:New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness
“Call It By Its Name” & “Unforgotten” (2013) are two original poems (and my first postgraduate publications!) that feature the themes of resistance, coloniality, and heritage.
Press & Op-Eds
The St. Thomas Source
“Educator and Activist Addresses Historians Society Meeting” (January 2024)
The Virgin Islands Daily News
“GVI releases abandoned and derelict property draft legislation” (October 2023)
“Administration plan for abandoned, derelict houses weathers second night of questioning” (August 2023)
“Residents weigh in on proposed NPS land exchange for St. John school” (April 2022)
The St. John Source
“Events Stir New School Debate on St. John as Deadline Nears” (March 2023)
“Ancestral St. Johnians Speak Out on Future of Development, Part III” (May 2020)
The Washington Post
The St. Thomas Source
Op-Ed: Confronting Colonialism Together, Virgin Islanders Attended Right to Democracy Summit in NY (February 2024)
The St. John Source
Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Blog
“Teaching Beyond a Colonial Blackness, or The Costs of Being Black and not really American in the Classroom” (October 2019)
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