essays

Remembering Stanley Crouch: Mentor, Jazz Critic and Master Smack Talker - Colorlines

Black Women Jazz Artists Are Using Virtual Spaces To Speak On Race, Gender - DownBeat

10 Books Highlighting the History of Racial Injustice and Resistance in Jazz - WBGO.org

Distancing #15: Janet Jackson’s Control - The Believer

Black Women Are Leading the Charge in the Fight for Clean Water in Newark - Zora

Cardi B Is the Voice of Reason America Needs - Glamour

My Eyeballs Are Falling Out, and That’s OK - Lenny 

The Black Feminist Who Argued for Intersectionality Before the Term Existed - Broadly

The Black Trans Author Whose Erotic Writing Queered Urban Fiction in the 70s - Broadly

It Could Have Been Me: Korryn Gaines and the Criminalization of Black Women - Ms. Magazine blog

Blackgirl Pleasure Notes: Life, Sex, & 90s Black Cinema - Apogee Journal, Issue 07, Lit Hub

Black Girl Magik As Feminist Formation (& A Valentine’s Day Well Spent) - Weird Sister

On Breaking the Bad Bitch Archetype in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child - Weird Sister

Black Women Take Back Style: How Technology has Changed the Game - The Feminist Wire

Revisiting Raven: Thoughts on Zora, Nina, and Take-Down Culture - Weird Sister

On Bending the Gaze As Resistance: From Cosby Show to How to Get Away With Murder - Weird Sister

Modest Fashion: Bringing Women Together One Skirt at a Time -Bitch Magazine

Red Hook Summer: On Post-Soul Culture And Spike Lee Talkin’ Smack - The Indypendent

 


poems

Insomnia - Transition Magazine (print only)

ten cultures of dissemblance - Transition Magazine (print only)

Moonlight - Boston Review

Saturdays with Coltrane - Boston Review

We Was Good - Paterson Literary Review

My Favorite Things - Day One

Girls With Boobies Bigger Than Mine - Spork Press

Girdle - Spork Press

Spend This Wisely - Spork Press

Burden of Proof - The Rumpus

You Are Beautiful, He Says - The Rumpus

Sometimes I Stare At the Trees Right Before a Storm & Think - The Rumpus

Have Your Own Timeless Edition Every Black Woman for Free - The Feminist Wire

For Semenya and Sisters - Kweli Journal

Mom Still Needs Mahalia - Spork Press

The Story of How My Brother Danny Was Born - Spork Press


interviews

Interview with Terri Lyne Carrington - WINTER JAZZFEST 2023 Program Book

Celebrating the Queer Women Who Changed the Way We Think About Sex - Shondaland

Why Black Sex Matters - Lenny Letter

Studio A With Alexandra Watson, Naomi Extra, and Claire Schwartz WKCR 89.9 FM NY

Sound & Image, Naomi Extra Interviews Amaud Jamaul Johnson - Kweli Journal

The Aural Aspect, Naomi Extra Interviews Camille Dungy -

Unadorned and Free: An Interview with Issue 07 Contributor Naomi Extra - Apogee Journal