SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Following a 4 day colloquium, a gathering of educators from art institutions around the country, in 2017, each were invited to submit an essay reflecting on our specialized programming and impact. Essays ranged from responsive programming in St. Louis around the murder of Michael Brown to disability politics and dangers of assimilation in inclusive education practices. My presentation and esssay reflects on my experiences building and leading our LGBTQ+ paid teen internship and youth centered programming, shifting power with LGTBQ+ youth of color and challenging institutions to be explicit. I am honored to have been invited to contribute to the colloquium and submit an essay “Being Explicit: Creating Space by and for LGBTQ+ Youth of Color,” for this publication.
October 18-20, 2018 in Istanbul, a conference organized by the Womens Museum Istanbul and SU Gender brought together researchers, museum administrators, educators and activists to analyze the existing and potential contributions of feminist pedagogy in museums, memory sites and practices of remembrance. I am deeply honored to have been invited to contribute to this international conference and publication.
I began at Brooklyn Museum in February 2015 in a new grant funded position in order to build and lead two new teen internships, LGBTQ+ Teen Night Planning Committee (now called InterseXtions) and Digital Artizens: Feminist Project. In the 6 year cycles since then, I have worked with incredible queer and trans youth, advocating for and creatively expressing themselves and each other in ways I could only imagine. These programs were dreamed up by the powerful queer chicanx educator and organizer Becky Alemán, who built on the foundation laid by Cheri Ehrlich’s tenured commitment to teen feminist programming and Brooklyn Museum’s first LGBTQ+ teen night in 2012. The three of us came together in 2018 to document the process of creating this rare programming in a major art museum, and sharing resources for other youth workers.
Teacher resource packet. Agitprop! Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. 2016
In connection with the exhibition Agitprop! organized by the staff of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator; Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator; Stephanie Weissberg, Curatorial Assistant; and Jess Wilcox, former Programs Coordinator, I wrote a teaching guide for K-12 teachers.
SELECTED POETRY + CREATIVE WRITING
On Day Nine, Sense: a cancer-season writing workout for (qt)poc, the starfruit project, 2018
I write a lot and more is coming soon. xo