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