• We’re Queer, ‘We’re Here’, and We’re Fighting Back, Scalawag Magazine, March 2023.
• Where The Banshees of Inisherin was filmed, Entertainment Weekly!, January 2023.

2022

• M. Night Shyamalan movies, ranked, Entertainment Weekly!, December 2022.
• Ethiopian Food as Divine Blessing, Tasteful Rude, November 2022.
• In “Don’t Go In The Woods,” Slasher Meets Musical, Certified Forgotten, November 2022.
• Who Gets to Be an Antihero: A Primer on White Devilry in Visual Media, Black Girl Nerds, September 2022.
• The best horror and sci-fi films to stream on Paramount+, Entertainment Weekly!, September 2022.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race visibilizes queerness—and the police state, Scalawag Magazine, September 2022.
• These Violent Delights Have Survivalist Ends in ‘Westworld’ Season 4, Black Girl Nerds, August 2022.
• ‘Orphan: First Kill’ is a Campy Slasher Prequel With Uncomfortable Shades of Ableism, Black Girl Nerds, August 2022.
• ‘Prey’ Honors Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience, But We Can’t Ignore Anti-Blackness Inherent in the ‘Predator’ Framework, Black Girl Nerds, August 2022.
• It Does Not Belong in a Museum: Indiana Jones’ Colonizer Legacy, Black Girl Nerds, August 2022.
• ‘Flowers in the Attic: The Origin’ is the Nuanced Adaptation VC Andrews’s Fans Have Waited Decades to Experience, Black Girl Nerds, August 2022.
• The End of More Than Just Reproductive Rights in the USA, Black Girl Nerds, June 2022.
• The Westworld character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, June 2022.
• Reinterpreting The Blair Witch Franchise as Fae Horror, Certified Forgotten, June 2022.
• The AHS: Coven character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, June 2022.
• On its 35th Anniversary ‘Dirty Dancing’ Still Breaks the Mold on Realistic Abortion Representation, Black Girl Nerds, May 2022.
• The ending of Cloud Atlas explained, Looper, May 2022.
• In Defense of Racebending ‘Cloud Atlas’ on Its 10th Anniversary, Black Girl Nerds, May 2022.
• The Serious Moonlight, flash fiction featured in Assignment Magazine, April 2022.
• ‘The Lost Boys’ through a ‘Dracula’ Lens Highlights the Film’s Queer Subtext On Its 35th Anniversary, Black Girl Nerds, March 2022.
• ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Honors its “Found Footage” Legacy on its 30th Anniversary, Black Girl Nerds, March 2022.
• ‘Euphoria’ Season 2 Continues Normalizing Male Full Frontal, While Exploring Sobriety’s Dark Side, Black Girl Nerds, February 2022.
• Powers of Darkness is an Important Addition to Dracula Lore Despite Heightened Xenophobia, White Supremacy, and Romaphobia, Powers of Darkness, February 2022. Available on Kindle, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads; soon in Apple Store and Google Play.
• ‘Yellowjackets’ Celebrates Three-Dimensional Women Characters as It Explores Their Extreme (Generational) Traumas, Black Girl Nerds, January 2022.
• Revisiting ‘The Village’ in the Era of Active Shooter Drills, Certified Forgotten, January 2022.
• ‘Dexter: New Blood’ Highlights America’s Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, While Invoking Morbid Nostalgia and Unpacking Generational Trauma, Black Girl Nerds, January 2022.
• The ‘This Is Us’ character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, January 2022.
• Please stop saying “I hope you’re well” to your (chronically ill) friends, Medium, January 2022.

2021

• ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Goes Through the Looking Glass Into a Metatextual, Queer, and Old School Love Story, Black Girl Nerds, December 2021.
• The Dexter character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, December 2021.
• The American Horror Story character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, December 2021.
• The Keanu Reeves movie character you are based on your zodiac sign, Looper, November 2021.
• ‘Til Death Do Us Part, zombie apocalypse literary flash fiction published at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop The Margins, October 2021.
• ‘Mare of Easttown’ Continues Media Obsession with Dead and Missing White Women (and Humanizing Bad Cops), Black Girl Nerds, June 2021.
• Things you only notice in Westworld after watching it more than once, Looper, June 2021.
• The entire Dexter timeline explained, Looper, May 2021.
• ‘Promising Young Woman’: Not a Revenge Movie That Honors Sexual Assault Survivors, Black Girl Nerds, February 2021.
• What the cast of Stand By Me should look like, Looper, February 2021.
• What the cast of The Shawshank Redemption should look like, Looper, January 2021.
• The best robot movies of all time, Looper, January 2021.
• Minor characters in horror movies who totally stole the show, Looper, January 2021.

2020

• Blumhouse’s Freaky is the Future of Feminist Horror, Bitch Magazine, December 2020.
• Gender-Flipped Toxic Fan Culture in Misery, Horror Homeroom Issue #2, December 2020.
• The scariest travel horror movies of all time, Looper, December 2020.
• On Its 40th Birthday ‘Friday the 13th’ Warns of the Dangers of Unresolved Trauma, Black Girl Nerds, November 2020.
• How Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Predicted Internet-Inspired Crime, Crooked Marquee, October 2020.
• Final girls that didn’t survive the horror movie, Looper, October 2020.
• The ending of The Craft explained, Looper, October 2020.
• Horror movie outcomes that were worse than dying, Looper, October 2020.
• The scariest kids in horror movie history, Looper, October 2020.
• How the cast of The Silence of the Lambs should look, Looper, September 2020.
• The untold truth of Misery, Looper, September 2020.
• The real life inspirations of everything in the John Wick universe, Looper, September 2020.
• Michaela Coel’s ‘I May Destroy You’ Establishes a New Paradigm for Social Justice Television (and Life), Black Girl Nerds, September 2020.
• Trauma and Isolation in ‘Flowers in the Attic’, Shudder’s The Bite, September 2020.
• When Good Cops are Still Bad Apples: The Unlikely Cases of ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Magnolia,’ Black Girl Nerds, September 2020.
• 30 Years Later, the Rental Anti-Blackness in ‘Pacific Heights’ Remains a Troubling Social Problem, Black Girl Nerds, August 2020.
• These are the scariest movies of all time, Looper, August 2020.
• Great 90s movies that still hold up today, Looper, July 2020.
• The ending of Labyrinth explained, Looper, July 2020.
• The creepiest attics in horror movies, Looper, July 2020.
• ‘In Bruges’: A Tale of Self-Isolation Gone Wrong, Black Girl Nerds, July 2020.
• In 25 Years We’ve Moved Closer to the ‘Tank Girl’ World, Black Girl Nerds, July 2020.
• Tips on Link/Information Sharing During a Pandemic, Election, and Other Social Upheavals, Medium, June 2020.
• Jordan Peele’s Sly Commentary on Whiteness in ‘Us’, Black Girl Nerds, June 2020.
• On its 25th Birthday ‘Seven’ Shatters White Devilry Tropes, Black Girl Nerds, June 2020.
• For 35 Years ‘The Goonies’ has Warned Capitalist Greed Harms Children, Black Girl Nerds, June 2020.
• Things only adults notice in Splash, Looper, June 2020.
• The untold truth of Tales From The Crypt, Looper, June 2020.
• The creepiest basements in horror movies, Looper, June 2020.
• The ending of Nocturnal Animals explained, Looper, June 2020.
• These Violent Delights Have Vengeful Ends in ‘Westworld’ Season 3, Black Girl Nerds, May 2020.
• Lost Girls vs. Lost Boys: The Case for ‘Fight Club’ on its 21st Birthday, Black Girl Nerds, May 2020.
• 25 Years Ago ’12 Monkeys’ Taught Us the Futility of Time Travel in a Pandemic, Black Girl Nerds, May 2020.
• White Devilry in ‘Black Swan’ Marks its 10th Birthday, Black Girl Nerds, May 2020.
• The untold truth of Fight Club, Looper, May 2020.
• The untold truth of Silence of the Lambs, Looper, May 2020.
• For 10 Years ‘Blue Valentine’ Has Dismantled the Notion of Romantic Love, Black Girl Nerds, April 2020.
• The Key Message of “The Wizard of Oz” is Fit for a Pandemic 81 Years Later, Black Girl Nerds, April 2020.
• The ending of Gerald’s Game explained, Looper, April 2020.
• The untold truth of Contagion, Looper, April 2020.
• John Wick’s entire backstory explained, Looper, March 2020.
• Things only adults notice in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Looper, March 2020.
• The best slasher movies of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes, Looper, March 2020.
• The untold truth of Tron, Looper, March 2020.
• The ending of The Outsider season one explained, Looper, March 2020.
• On its 25th Birthday, ‘Now and Then’ Resonates Differently as an Adult, Black Girl Nerds, March 2020.
• The creepiest characters in TV show history, Looper, March 2020.
• The untold truth of The NeverEnding Story, Looper, March 2020.
• Things only adults notice in Coraline, Looper, March 2020.
• Let’s Talk About What a Trauma Trigger Actually Is, Medium, February 2020.
• The untold truth of Pretty Woman, The List, February 2020.
• Things only adults notice in One Tree Hill, The List, February 2020.
• The different beings in Lord of the Rings explained, Looper, January 2020.
• The changing looks of Lady Gaga, The List, January 2020.
• The untold truth of Field of Dreams, Looper, January 2020.
• On its 21st Birthday, ‘The Sixth Sense’ Reminds Us of the Competence of Children, Black Girl Nerds, January 2020.

2019

• The best romcoms of the past decade, The List, December 2019.
• The best female-led action movies of the past decade, Looper, December 2019.
• The best horror movies of the past decade, Looper, December 2019.
• For 35 Years ‘Gremlins’ has Warned of the Dangers of Cultural Appropriation, Black Girl Nerds, December 2019.
• The best horror movies of the past decade, Looper, November 2019.
• How AHS 1984 might be connected to previous seasons, Looper, November 2019.
• Things everyone ignores in Love Actually, The List, November 2019.
• How the Doctor Sleep movie is different from Stephen King’s book, Looper, November 2019.
• How Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker changed the comic book movie landscape, Looper, October 2019.
• “A Little Late with Lilly Singh” has a code-switching problem, Bitch Magazine, October 2019.
• The entire American Horror Story timeline explained, Looper, October 2019.
• How The Shining book differs from the movies, Looper, October 2019.
• How the cast of the It movies should really look, Looper, October 2019.
• The untold truth of River Phoenix, Looper, September 2019.
• The untold truth of Joaquin Phoenix, Looper, September 2019.
• Hannibal Lecter’s backstory explained, Looper, September 2019.
• How Twin Peaks changed tv and no one noticed, Looper, September 2019.
• Deep Diving into ‘Siren’ with Creators Emily Whitesell and Eric Wald, Black Girl Nerds, September 2019.
• American Horror Story’s biggest unanswered questions, Looper, September 2019.
• The entire Friday the 13th story finally explained, Looper, September 2019
• The Alien movie saga finally explained, Looper, August 2019.
• ‘The Neverending Story’ Remains Timeless in a Surprising Way on its 35th Birthday, Black Girl Nerds, August 2019.
• ‘The Big Lebowski’ Turns 21 and Can Finally Order its Own White Russian, Black Girl Nerds, August 2019.
• The untold truth of Euphoria, The List, August 2019.
• We finally understand the ending of Dexter, Looper, August 2019.
• HBO’s ‘Share’ Shows Groundbreaking Post-Assault Parental Behavior, Bitch Magazine, August 2019.
• The ending of The NeverEnding Story finally explained, Looper, August 2019.
• On The Blair Witch Project’s 20th Birthday, Heather Donahue is the Film’s Unsung Hero, Black Girl Nerds, July 2019.
• Labyrinth 2: Everything we know so far, Looper, July 2019.
• The untold truth of Brandon Lee, Looper, July 2019.
• ‘Crawl’ Gets Everything Wrong about Florida, Hurricanes, and Even Alligators, Black Girl Nerds, July 2019.
• How ‘Jackass’ changed television and no one seemed to notice, Looper, July 2019.
• 30 Years Later and ‘Do the Right Thing’ Still Painfully Reflects Race Relations and Police Brutality in America, Black Girl Nerds, July 2019.
• Practical Special Effects Keep ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Totally Magical on its 30th Birthday, Black Girl Nerds, July 2019.
• HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ is a Dark, Edgy, and also Problematic High-school Drama, Black Girl Nerds, July 2019.
• Part 2 of ‘Siren’ Season 2 Continues Deepening its World-building and Social Commentary, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• ‘Loners’: A Campy Social Satire with Important Political and Cultural Commentary, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• ‘Claws’ Season 3 Opens a Mixed (Valentino) Bag While its Messy Intersectional Feminism Continues, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• For 40 Years Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Has Been a Cinematic Masterpiece, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• ‘Ma’ Honors Black Women’s Rage, Bitch Magazine, June 2019.
• HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ is Devastatingly Relevant to the World Now, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• On its 25th Birthday ‘The Crow’ Remains a Singular Gothic Horror-Revenge Love Story, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• AMC’s ‘N0S4A2’ is an Atmospheric and Haunting Adaptation of Joe Hill’s Novel, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• ‘Vida’ Season 2 Dives Deeper into Issues of Gentrification, Sexuality, Colorism, and Community, Black Girl Nerds, June 2019.
• ‘Lil’Buck: Real Swan’ Brings Memphis Jookin with a Ballet Twist to the World Stage, Black Girl Nerds, May 2019.
• The Evolution of Zombie Getaway Cars in Honor of Zombie Awareness Month, Black Girl Nerds, May 2019.
• On its 30th Birthday ‘Teen Witch’ Remains a Fun Journey Through Archetypes. Top that., Black Girl Nerds, May 2019.
• Cody Meirick’s ‘Scary Stories’ Documentary is a Love Letter to Alvin Schwartz’s Beloved Books, Black Girl Nerds, May 2019.
• Netflix’s ‘Chambers’ is a New Gold Standard for Indigenous Representation in American Visual Media, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• Tribeca Review: ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ is a Fascinating Dive into the Evolution of News Media, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• Tribeca Review: ‘Come To Daddy’ is Not Your Usual Father-Son Reconciliation Film, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘The Matrix’ and its Cinematic Legacy Hold Strong 20 Years Later, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• On its 15th Birthday, ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ is Still the Perfect Love Story, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• On the 30th Anniversary of ‘Pet Sematary’, Sometimes the Original is Better, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘Thriller’ is a Fun High-School Slasher Homage, With a Twist, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• Happy 20th Birthday to the Ever Iconic ’10 Things I Hate About You’, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘Lizzie’ Puts a Sapphic Spin on the Borden Family Murders, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• 30 Years On and ‘Field of Dreams’ Messages of Faith and Family Hold Strong, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• Horror Anthology ‘The Field Guide to Evil’ is a Creepy Dive into Reimagined Folk Tales, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘A Dark Place’ Portrays Mental Illness with a Compassionate Touch, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘Babylon’ is an Incisive Portrait of Systemic Violence Against Jamaican Brits, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘Critters: A New Binge’ is a Fun Horror Comedy in a Unique Short-form Format, Black Girl Nerds, April 2019.
• ‘Now Apocalypse’ is Another Wild and Sexy Ride from Gregg Araki, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• 30 Years Later and ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ Continues to be Excellent (Even Though It’s Problematic AF), Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• ‘Footloose’ Continues to be a Relevant Snapshot of Small-Town America 35 Years Later, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• SXSW: ‘The Garden Left Behind’ is a Story About Transitioning, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• SXSW: ‘Porno’ Tries Hard at Social Commentary Horror and Fails, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• SXSW: ‘Museum Town’ Traces Art History with a Loving Touch, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• SXSW: ‘Snatchers’ Elevates the Entire Horror-Comedy Genre, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• SXSW: ‘Alice’ is an Emotional Roller Coaster, Black Girl Nerds, March 2019.
• ‘Counterpart’ Season 2 Concludes with More Spectacular Twists, and an Uncertain Network Future, Black Girl Nerds, February 2019.
• ‘Horror Noire’ is a Brilliant and Definitive Documentary About the History of Black Horror, Black Girl Nerds, February 2019.
• Sundance: ‘Bedlam’ is a Horrifying Gaze into America’s Substandard Mental Illness Services, Black Girl Nerds, February 2019.
• ‘Siren’ Season 2 Continues with Themes of Environmentalism, Inclusion, and the Dangers of Obsession, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• Sundance: ‘Top End Wedding’ is the New Template for Cross-Cultural RomComs, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• Sundance: ‘Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen’ is a Moving Tribute to this Exceptional Filmmaker and Also a Crash Course in Maori Cinema, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• Sundance: ‘The Magic Life of V’ Beautifully Explores LARP as a Tool for Healing Childhood Trauma, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• Sundance: ‘Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire’ Shows the Toll Anti-Fascism Work Takes on a Life, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘Broad City’ Opens with Big Changes and Transformations in its Final Season, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘A Discovery of Witches’ is a Solid Gothic Horror Romance, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ Brings the Immigration Debate into an Extraterrestrial Love Story, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘Drunk History’ Season 6 Premieres with Star-Studded and Boozy Splash of Comedic Mastery, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘Doctor Who’ Season 11 Stuns with an Abundance of Equitable Representation, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• The 10 Horror Films Lupita Watched to Prepare for her Role in ‘Us’ and Their Clues About the Film, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘Escape At Dannemora’ Whitewashes the Reality of the American Carceral System, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘I Feel Bad’ is Both A Foot Forward and Steps Back, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.
• ‘A State Like Sleep’ Explores Suicide and Grief with a Tender Touch, Black Girl Nerds, January 2019.

2018

• The Enchantment of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Lasts All Year Long, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• ‘Trading Places’ is Still a Socially Relevant Christmas Comedy, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• ‘Scrooged’ is the Rare Christmas Film that Withstands the Test of Time 30 Years Later, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• The ‘Charmed’ Reboot is the Socially Conscious Witch Show We Need Right Now, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• BGN Interview: Lucas Brown Eyes, Creator of the First Native American Sitcom in Development, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• Until There is No More Sexually-Based Violence, We Need ‘SVU’, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• Elizabeth Liang’s ‘Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey’ is a Poignant Transcultural Voyage, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• ‘Mandy’ is a Beautiful and Monstrous Joyride into the Hell of Vengeance, Black Girl Nerds, December 2018.
• Eli Roth’s ‘History of Horror’ Will Take You to Church on the Horror Genre, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• Meet Lisbeth Salander, the Iconic Survivor and Vigilante with the Dragon Tattoo, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• ‘American Horror Story: Apocalypse’ is the Gift that Keeps on Giving, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Misses the Mark in this Lackluster Sequel, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• Jim Carrey’s New Showtime ‘Kidding’ Handles Grief Like Nothing Before, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• ‘The Purge’ Manages a Fine Balance Between Family Drama and Horror Show, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018. 
• Happy 50th Birthday to ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and George Romero’s Brand of Social Justice Horror, Black Girl Nerds, November 2018.
• Not Your Final Girl: In ‘Halloween,’ Laurie Strode is a Survivor, Bitch Magazine, October 2018.
• 20 Years Later and ‘Blade’ is Still Singular and Relevant, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• Celebrating the Beloved Owens Witches on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Practical Magic’, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• Exploring Horror and the “Pleasure” of Fear, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• Excavating Trauma and the Healing Power of Haunted-Home Films, Bitch Magazine, October 2018. (Originally published in Bitch’s print GHOSTS issue, August 2018.)
• Meet the People Who Won’t Be Having Children Because of Gun Violence, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2018.
• ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Aims High with Mixed Results, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• Happy 30th Birthday to ‘Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• A Short List of On-Screen Mothers Who Abuse and Kill, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• 13 Under-the-Radar Family Horror Films Scarier than Hereditary, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• Missouri is the New Pop Culture Landscape for “White Devil” Narratives, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• The Painful Reason Christine Blasey Ford Needs Two Doors, Bitch Magazine, October 2018.
• “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” documentary humanizes and contexualizes this often-demonized pop star, Black Girl Nerds, October 2018.
• “A Suitable Girl” Unpacks the Nuances of Arranged Marriages, Black Girl Nerds, September 2016.
• “Warrior Women” is the Story of Indigenous Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk’s Lifelong Struggle, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.
• HBO’s “Sharp Objects” explores trauma, white women’s violence and the subject of child-abusing mothers, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.
• Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric” will provoke many interpretations, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.
• The Slovenian pre-carceral systems transform deliquents into criminals through Darko Štante’s moving LGBTQ drama “Consequences”, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

• “Diamantino” is a welcome piece of social justice comedy, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

• Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky’s “Freaks” wastes a perfectly good movie title on a whitewashed sci-fi story, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

  

• “Stupid Young Heart” is an important film as we attempt to negotiate this era of the “alt-right.” Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

• Klaus Härö’s “One Last Deal” explores the second chances that lead to last chances, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

• Filmed in both Denmark and Thailand, the contrast between worlds couldn’t be starker in “Heartbound”, Black Girl Nerds, September 2018.

• Luis Ortega’s “El Angel” is about far more than just Argentina’s most notorious serial killer, Black Girl Nerds, August 2018.

• ‘The Affair’ Season Four Gets Real with Diversity and Social Commentary, Black Girl Nerds, August 2018.
• Please Stop Telling Depressed and Suicidal People to “Reach Out”, Wear Your Voice, August 2018.
• ‘Claws’ Season Two is More Messy Intersectional Feminism, and it’s Still So Necessary, Black Girl Nerds, August 2018.
• What You Need to Know About Abortion Doulas and their Vital Work, Wear Your Voice, August 2018.
• Violent Delights Have Redemptive Ends in Westworld’s Second Season, Black Girl Nerds, July 2018.
• Saying Goodbye to ‘Sense8’, One of the Most Inclusive Television Shows of All Time, Black Girl Nerds, June 2018.
• “Siren” is the Socially Relevant Mermaid Show We’ve All Been Waiting For, Black Girl Nerds, May 2018.
• How #MarchForOurLives Leaves Out Gun Crime Survivors Like Me, Ravishly, May 2018. Syndicated by Good Men Project.
• 14 Self-Care Tips for Sexual Assault Survivors Suffering from PTSD, Wear Your Voice Magazine, April 2018.
• Frida Kahlo Was a Communist, So Stop Capitalizing Off Her Likeness, Wear Your Voice Magazine, April 2018.
• Why White Male Shooters Are Often Called “Lone Wolves,” Teen Vogue, April 2018.
• “Scream 3” Foreshadowed Hollywood’s #MeToo Moment, Bitch Magazine, March 2018.
• Why Are Awards Shows Still Even A Thing?, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2018.
• Honoring Asma Jahangir, Pakistani Feminist Trailblazer and Human Rights Activist, Wear Your Voice Magazine, February 2018.
• M.F.A. Rewrites the Rape-Revenge Formula, Bitch Magazine’s Revenge Issue #78, February 2018. 
• The #MeToo Backlash and United States’ Disintegration of Rule of Law, Wear Your Voice Magazine, February 2018.
• What Aziz Ansari Did Was Coercion, Not Consent, Wear Your Voice Magazine, January 2018.
• Abeer Hoque’s “Olive Witch” Explores the Damaging Side-effects of Unresolved Grief, HuffPost, January 2018.

2017

• P.T. Barnum Was Not A Romantic Hero, He Was A Capitalist Exploiter, Wear Your Voice Magazine, December 2017.
• No Thank You, Apu — Don’t Come Again, Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2017.
• “Stranger Things 2” is a Working Example of Allyship, Wear Your Voice Mag, November 2017.
• The Anti-Indigenous and Anti-Black Roots of the Second Amendment, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2017.
• Halloween Inspiration from Twin Peaks Cosplayers of Color, Ravishly, October 2017.
• Waking from a Dream, Deprogramming from a (Twin Peaks) Cult, Huffington Post, October 2017.
• How Environmental Racism Affects Indigenous Communities in the United States, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2017.
• The Sexism and Whitewashing in “IT” is More Disturbing than Pennywise, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2017.
• The Unavoidable Whiteness of the New Twin Peaks, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2017.
• Twin Peaks is Aging Against the Machine, Bitch Magazine, September 2017.
• A Primer on the Prison Industrial Complex in America, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2017.
• We Need to Talk About Racism in the Tattoo Industry, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2017.
• What Would Impeaching Trump Look Like?, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2017.
• Edgy Breastfeeding Fashion for Rebel Mamas, Now In Plus Sizes, Ravishly, August 2017.
• “The Dark Tower” is the Perfect Movie for Our Current Times, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2017.
• Twin Peaks and Brechtian Sensibilities in Modern Visual Media, Dilettante Army, August 2017.
• The Casting of a New “Doctor Who” is a Victory For White Women and Not Much Else, Wear Your Voice Magazine, July 2017.
• 10 Things You May Not Know About Frida Kahlo, Wear Your Voice Magazine, July 2017.
• “Twin Peaks” is Overwhelmingly White, So Why Do Fans of Color Keep Watching It?, Wear Your Voice Magazine, June 2017.
• Black and Brown Sisters Are Doing Visual Media for Themselves, Wear Your Voice Magazine, June 2017.
• Pussy Bites Back: Vagina Dentata Myths From Around the World, Vice’s Broadly, June 2017.
• Hasan Minhaj’s “Homecoming King” and the Audacity of Equality, Wear Your Voice Magazine, June 2017.
• “Master of None” Brings Diversity and Empathy to Entertainment, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• Silicon Valley and the South Asian Communities Keep Protecting Misogynists. Why?, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• Desi-Founded, Women-Run Luminoustudios is Fighting the Film Industry’s Patriarchy Problem, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• This White Woman’s “Protest Saris” are Peak Appropriation, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• The Revived Global Gag Rule is Already Endangering Lives in India, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• India Renews Plans to Finish its Border Walls, Because Trump, Wear Your Voice Magazine, May 2017.
• 13 Reasons Why “13 Reasons Why” is Dangerously Problematic, Wear Your Voice Magazine, April 2017.
• 5 Unexpected Benefits of “Coming Out” as a Sexual Assault Survivor, Wear Your Voice Magazine, April 2017.
• Good South Asian Girls Don’t Have Tattoos (And That’s Why I’m Covered In Them), Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• “Big Little Lies” Takes On An Unspeakable Taboo: Mothers Who Regret Motherhood, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• 9 Desi Feminist Activists You Need To Know, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• The Women of “Twin Peaks,” From the Trickster to the Shapeshifter, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• Stop Shooting Brown People — Whether They’re Muslim Or Not, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• Emerald City is a Refreshing Take on Oz, But it’s Still Problematic, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• India’s Hindu Sena Treat Trump Like a God, and White Nationalism Like Gospel, Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2017.
• Trans Folks Will Finally Be Counted in Pakistan, But Other Rights Lag, Wear Your Voice Magazine, Febrary 2017.
• The Sociology of Casual Sexual Encounters with Lisa Wade, Huffington Post Books, February 2017.
• Lady Gaga: Performing and Discarding Freakishness is Another Example of her White Privilege, Wear Your Voice Magazine, February 2017.
• The Complicated and Sometimes Racist History of Referring to South Asians as “East Indian,” Wear Your Voice Magazine, January 2017.
• Serial Abuser/Sexual Predator Bikram Choudhury Loses “Hot Yoga” Empire to One of His Victims, Wear Your Voice Magazine, January 2017.
• When Travel Writing Demonstrates White Privilege: Condé Nast’s Problematic Snapshot of Sri Lanka, Wear Your Voice Magazine, January 2017.
• “Rogue One” is the Perfect Brutal Movie for a Collectively Bleak Future, Wear Your Voice Magazine, January 2017.

2016

• Netflix’s “Sense8” Gives Us the Diverse Television We’ve Been Waiting For, Wear Your Voice Magazine, December 2016.
• Suicide Squad Is The Perfect Garbage Movie To Describe Garbage Year 2016, Huffington Post Entertainment, December 2016.
• How To Plant Roots In Sand, Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, “Treasures” issue, December 2016.
• Nepali Woman Dies in Menstrual Hut, Galvanizing Calls to End this Horrible Practice, Wear Your Voice Magazine, December 2016.
• These Violent Delights Have Misogynistic Ends in HBO’s Westworld, Wear Your Voice Magazine, December 2016.
• Where Are All the South Asians in Dystopian Films and TV?, Wear Your Voice Magazine, December 2016.
• The Gilmore Girls Revival Gets Real (But it is Still a Beautiful Escape From These Troubled Times), Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2016.
• India’s First Transgender News Anchor Brings Visibility to Country’s Trans and Hijra Folks, Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2016. Cross-posted at HuffPost Queer Voices.
• Consent and Being “Other” In Trump’s America, Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2016. Cross-posted at HuffPost Women.
• The Crack In Everything Widens: A Dirge for Leonard Cohen, Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2016. Cross-posted at HuffPost Entertainment.
• The Election Fallout Begins for Women, People of Color, Immigrants, and LGBTQ Community, Wear Your Voice Magazine, November 2016. Also published at HuffPost Politics.
• Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan: Admit It, You’re a Feminist, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016.
• “Good Girls Marry Doctors” Anthology Unveils South Asian Women’s Fraught Lives, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016. Cross-posted at HuffPost Books.
• Mindy Kaling’s Brother Slut-Shamed Her to Distract From His Bizarre Race Experiment, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016.
• Skirt Warning Won’t Prevent India Rapes, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016.

• Dear Tim Burton: I’m Done with Your Racism, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016.
• Shame is on the Other Side: The 10 Stages of “Coming Out” as an Abuse Survivor, Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016.
• How Changing My Name Gave Me a Deeper Respect for the Resistance Trans Folks Face, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2016.
• Explaining the Seemingly Bizarre Indian-Americans for Trump 2016 Movement, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2016.
• Showtime’s Roadies is a Dumpster Fire of Asian Stereotypes and Casual Racism, Wear Your Voice, September 2016.
• This is What Happens When You Watch Killer Mermaid Right After Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, The Mary Sue, September 2016.

• Through Naz, the Man at the Core of The Night Of, We See The U.S. Legal System’s Ugly Side, Wear Your Voice Magazine, September 2016.
• Ghostbusters Smashes the Patriarchy One Proton Blast at a Time, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2016.
• Why I Almost Chose an Arranged Marriage, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2016.
• Everything I Know About Body Positivity I Learned From Saris and Tattoos, Wear Your Voice Magazine, August 2016.
• Why This Feminist Ended Her Game of Thrones Boycott — And Was Surprised by Season Six, Wear Your Voice Magazine, July 2016. Picked up by HuffPost Women in August 2016.
  
• A Woman of Color Author’s Favorite Novels by Other Women of Color Writers, Wear Your Voice Magazine, July 2016.
• Healing from the Ground Up and Inside Out: Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein’s The Dirt Cure, Huffington Post Parents, July 2016.
• The Discreet Anti-authoritarianism of Leche Libre’s Edgy Breastfeeding Wear, Huffington Post Style, July 2016.
• Internal and External Displacement: Immigration, Mental Illness, and Netflix’s River, Huffington Post Entertainment, July 2016.
• Shame Withers in Sunlight: An Open Letter to the Stanford Rape Survivor, Wear Your Voice Magazine, June 2016.
• Towards a Sociology of Turkish Food: Zeynep Kilic’s Tables of Istanbul, Huffington Post Taste, June 2016.
• Music That Heals: A Love Letter to Pearl Jam on Their 25th Anniversary Tour, Huffington Post Entertainment, May 2016.
• Happiness is Purple: A Requiem for Prince, Huffington Post Entertainment, April 2016.
• The Difference Between Romantic Love and True Love, Huffington Post Healthy Living, April 2016.

• Enough With the “I Am” Memes Already, Huffington Post Politics, April 2016.
• Why Everyone Should Thank Donald Trump, Huffington Post Politics, March 2016.
• Boldly Going Where Few Have Gone Before: Meet Space Gynecologist Dr. Varsha Jain, Huffington Post Science, March 2016.
• Happiness is a Choice, and So is Love, Huffington Post GPS For the Soul, February 2016.
• Kylo Ren, the Parent Wound, and Complicating Good vs Evil In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Huffington Post Entertainment, February 2016.
• A Cabinet of Curiosities, Americana Style: Tom Manning’s Runoff, Huffington Post Books, January 2016.
• The Goblin King is Dead, Long Live the Goblin King: An Elegy for David Bowie, Huffington Post Entertainment, January 2016.
• “It’s Not Your Fault”: Netflix’s Jessica Jones and the Outward Ripples of Domestic Violence, Huffington Post Women, January 2016.
• Complex Legacies of War, Abuse, and Immigration: Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us, Huffington Post Books, January 2016.
• Tales for A HalloweeNight, Asylum, and More: An Interview with Real-life Scream Queen Sandy King Carpenter, Huffington Post Entertainment, January 2016.

2015

• Moving On After the World Ends: The Dark Truths of HBO’s The Leftovers and Trauma, Huffington Post Entertainment, December 2015.
• America Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass, Huffington Post Politics, December 2015.
• Putting Faces on the Immigration Debate: The Cortes Family and Ted Roach’s 120 Days, Huffington Post Impact, November 2015.
• Jury Duty and the Gun Crime Survivor, Huffington Post Impact, October 2015.
• The Gateway Fundamentalism of Kim Davis and Her Supporters, Huffington Post Politics, October 2015.
• Rape is Not About Sex: A Notice to Damon Wayans and Everyone Who Still Doesn’t Get It, Huffington Post Impact, October 2015.
• Examining the Highly Sensitive Personality — Sensitive: The Untold Story, Huffington Post Healthy Living, October 2015.
• The Mainstreaming of Empathy, or How Hannibal Changed My Life, Huffington Post Entertainment, September 2015.
• These Are the Rules of Trauma Club, Huffington Post Healthy Living, September 2015.
• In Defense of True Detective Vol. 2: A Love Letter to  Crime Noir and Broken People, Huffington Post Entertainment, August 2015.
• Why I Stopped Giving Unsolicited Advice, Huffington Post Healthy Living, August 2015.
• Honoring Rockhaven Sanitarium, America’s First Feminist Asylum, Huffington Post Arts, August 2015.
• Trigger Warning, Huffington Post Healthy Living, July 2015.
• How I Finally Developed Some National Pride, Huffington Post Impact, June 2015.
• His Watch Has Ended, and So Has Mine: An Open Letter to Game of Thrones, Huffington Post Women, June 2015. Also published at HuffPost Brasil.

2014

• The Heart of the Matter: Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking, Huffington Post Impact, December 2014.
• The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? When the Holidays Aren’t So Jolly, Huffington Post Impact, December 2014.
• 13 (Non-pharmaceutical) Ways to Deal with PTSD, Huffington Post Healthy Living, November 2014.
• Living in the Shadow of a Gun Crime: 14 Years Later, Huffington Post Healthy Living, October 2014.
• 8 Reasons Why I’m Not Having Children (Not That It’s Any of Your Business), Huffington Post Women, September 2014. Also published in HuffPost Italy, Germany, France, Quebec, Spain, Korea.
• The Sexual Politics of Full Frontal in HBO Shows (NSFW), Sociological Images, June 2014.

2013

• Trauma and the Third Culture Kid Experience, Djibouti Jones, October 2013.

• What Rapists Say Echoes the Lyrics of “Blurred Lines”, Ms Magazine, September 2013.
• From the Mouths of Rapists: The Lyrics of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, Sociological Images and Pacific Standard, September 2013.
• Review: The Lords of Salem (2013), Anything Horror, May 2013.
• The Problematics of the Fake Harlem Shake, Sociological Images, March 2013.
• A Mermaid Out of Water, It’s A Dome Life, February 2013.
• Guns, Part Two, Follow Your Ears, radio interview with Edward Champion, January 2013.

2012

• 19 more films that depict the horrors of being abroad, or otherwise displaced, The Displaced Nation, November 2012.

• 15 films that depict the horrors of being abroad, or otherwise displaced, The Displaced Nation, October 2012.
• The accidental repatriate, The Displaced Nation, September 2012.
• Review: Don’t Go In the Woods, Anything Horror, September 2012.
• The Sidewalk Ends, Roadside Attractions, August 2012.
• Eat Your Face Off: The Miami Zombie, Anything Horror, July 2012.

2011

• The 99% of Cologne, Occupy Writers, November 2011.
• The Blood Room, Red Room, September 2011.
• American Monsters, illustrated second edition, Ghostwoods Books, August 2011.

• Karma’s A Bitch, Red Phone Box special edition, July 2011.
• Portrait of the Writer as a Wife, SexLoveJoy, July 2011.
• Zuzu in Prahaland, The Displaced Nation, June 2011.
• Alice Award recipient for travel writing, The Displaced Nation, May 2011.
• The new global laborers, expat+HAREM, May 2011.
• Parents of the Third Culture, expat+HAREM, April 2011.
• The Cautionary Tale of Jason Voorhees, Anything Horror, April 2011.
• The Passion Project: HARDCORE INDIE, Anything Horror, April 2011.

• His Name Was Jason, Anything Horror, February 2011.
• Dreamcatchers, Love, Rose, February 2011.

2010

• Expat Inspiration, Orangesplaash, December 2010.
• Monster brawl, expat+HAREM, November 2010.
• My foreign body, expat+HAREM, October 2010.
• Shooting Dogs, Glossolalia Flash, September 2010.
• With/out borders, expat+HAREM, September 2010.
• Hybrid Ambassadors Blog Ring, Post #1: White’s Only?.
• Pensive Mr Zuzu (photograph) featured on Gender bending with James Chartrand, expat+HAREM, August 2010.
• Intertextuality and Irony in Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, Red Room blog competition winner, week of May 20, 2010.
• Past is present, expat+HAREM, May 2010.

• Living in Prague as an Expat: The Times they are a’Changing, runner up winner for the Transitions Abroad expatriate writing competition, April 2010.
• Visiting, Relocating and the Journey In Between, Taking Up Residence, March 2010.
• Dialogue 2010, February 28, 2010.
• The Inside Outsider, expat+HAREM, February 2010.
• The Sneeze, Red Room blog competition honourable mention, January 2010.

2008

• Dream A Little Dream, Provokator Magazine, April 2008.

2007

• Pagan Is As Pagan Does, Provokator Magazine, December 2007.
• The Devil’s Codex, Provokator Magazine, October 2007.
• Satanic Inspiration, The Prague Post, September 2007.

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