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Other Writing

“Issa Rae’s ‘Creative Empire’: How Authenticity is Challenged by Art’s Relationship with Capitalism” *​

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April 2024

This project is my 131-page senior thesis which I worked on throughout my last year as an African American Studies major at Princeton University.

Visual compilation of my research for my senior thesis on Issa Rae's work, 2024.

“On Being ‘That Girl’: How the Media Socializes Black Trans Girls Through their Hair” *

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April 2023

This project is my junior paper, my second largest research project at Princeton University. 

"How Elvis, the Movie and the Figure, Appropriate Black Struggle"

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May 2023

This essay was written for a class called "A History of Intellectual Appropriation of Blackness," taught by Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, that I took in Spring 2023 at Princeton University. 

"The Miseducation of Black Motherhood and Impossibility of Black Womanhood"

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December 2022

This essay, which has been retitled, is an excerpt of a larger project for a class called "In Living Color: Performing the Black '90s," taught by Dr. Rhaisa Williams, that I took in Fall 2022 at Princeton University. 

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Artwork and Design Credits.

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