Essays and reflections I’ve published outside the classroom and the conference room, where I get to write in my own voice about mattering, marginality, and the work of building environments where people can belong.
Not New: The Policing of Black Childhood
October 28, 2026
A 3-year-old on a Winter Park soccer field, the research on adultification, and the long history of treating Black children as adults, from the fields to the classroom to the stadium.
Title IX and Black Bodies: Whose Pain Gets Believed and the Work of Mattering
October 20, 2026
On the Cornell 7 and LSU cases, the history of sexual violence and racial terror behind them, and what it takes for a Title IX process to show Black students they matter.
Say Their Names: On Mattering, Marginality, and the Transitions That Made This Work
September 17, 2026
On Nancy Schlossberg’s theories of marginality, mattering, and transition, and why I say the names of the Black lives lost to police violence each year.
