Recent Writing

Environmental Justice

Smell something, tell something: How Black residents in coastal Georgia are holding polluters accountable (Southerly, July 2021)

Water Is Life: Black coastal Georgians remain resilient in the face of environmental peril (Oxford American, Summer 2021)

The Georgia town that was home to Ahmaud Arbery has an environmental racism problem (Prism, July 2020)

Movement History

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL’s most beloved neighborhoods: The history of Little Five Points’ little feminist press (Scalawag, December 2021)

Race & Politics

Organizers in Ahmaud Arbery’s community celebrate guilty verdict and continue to fight for systemic change (Prism, December 2021)

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack hit the road in rural Georgia to talk about historic debt relief for Black farmers. The audience was skeptical. (The Counter, May 2021)

Names Not Lost: Racial Terror Lynching, Past and Present (A Blade of Grass, Fall 2020)

After 100 Days of Protest, Writers and Photographers Reflect on What They’ve Witnessed (Harper’s Bazaar, September 2020)

John Lewis’ legacy: Four Southern states are still battling for voter rights (Scalawag, August 2020)

The Supreme Court LGBTQ+ ruling is just the beginning (YES! Magazine, June 2020)

Meet five Black and Brown Southerners running for office to change the system (Scalawag, June 2020)

Gender & Reproductive Justice

Georgia funding anti-abortion centers posing as clinics puts pregnant people at risk (Prism, December 2022)

How Medicaid expansion could help relieve Georgia’s reproductive health care crisis (Prism, August 2022)

Georgia Is Funneling Millions of Dollars to Fake Abortion Clinics (VICE, December 2020)

What life is like for Black sex workers during the pandemic (Prism, September 2020)

How Georgia’s Blocked 6-week Abortion Ban is Already Affecting Clinics (Rewire News Group, February 2020)

Gullah Geechee Culture

How this 150-year-old Gullah Geechee farm on Georgia’s coast is driven by ancestral culture (Black Farmers’ Network, April 2023)