The Plague Isn't Over: Contingent Magazine
Repairing the Broken Links: Compost
I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie: The Nation
Fighting No-Fault Evictions With A Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance: Shelterforce
John D'Emilio Dives Deep Into Queer Archives: Chicago Reader
The Smart Museum Wants You to 'Take Care': Chicago Reader
In the Covid era, the relationship between cities and megadevelopments makes even less sense: City Monitor
Sasha Geffen's 'Glitter Up The Dark" Unravels Queer Music History: Nylon
N.K. Jemisin Confronts the City We're Becoming: Citylab
Development in Black and White: Belt Magazine
The Gentrifiers' Digest: CityLab
SimCity and “possibility spaces”: reshaping how we build the worlds around us: Glitch
“Southern Exposure” Uncovers the Proud Architectural Legacy of Chicago’s South Side: Metropolis
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, MASS Design Group Proposes a Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence: Metropolis
The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook digs deep into the meaning of home: Curbed
Ezra Furman's "Twelve Nudes" is a "Firehose of Frustration": Bandcamp
'Out of the Closets and Into the Streets': Belt Magazine
'There Aren't Clear Heroes: Eve Ewing on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919: Pacific Standard
Cate Le Bon Shows The Wild Beauty In Being Alone: Nylon
Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos Talks Touring, Mental Health, And His Music's Surprising Influence: Nylon
Revisiting America's Little-Known Experimental Suburbs: Metropolis
Priests Takes On American Hypocrisy In Their New Album: Nylon
You Can Never Go Home to GeoCities Again: Slate
Are Planners Partly to Blame for Gentrification?: CityLab
A quick guide to biking in Chicago: Curbed
Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD Plans: Shelterforce
A Global, Invisible Empire: Jacobin
Get To Know Bellows, Who Wants Musicians To Unionize: Nylon
Preserving Affordable Housing by Buying, Not Building: Shelterforce
Juan Wauters Went On A Magical Mystery Tour: Nylon
Who Will Benefit From Opportunity Zones? It’s Still Unclear: Shelterforce
'Go Ahead In The Rain' Is A Powerful Homage To The Ultimate '90s Group: Nylon
Chicago’s cultural history, ambitious ideas covered in new book: Curbed
Rent Control's Momentum: Jacobin
Q&A: Andrea Gibbons talks City of Segregation: Curbed
Beloved, historic Davis Theater celebrates its storied past: Curbed
Colin Self Explains The Alternative Queer Kinship Heard On ‘Siblings’: Nylon
How Geocities Suburbanized the Internet: Citylab
Native American routes: the ancient trails hidden in Chicago's grid system: The Guardian
Nearly Half a Million U.S. Homes Are About to Become Unaffordable: In These Times
A Template for Displacement Narratives: On Daniel Kay Hertz's The Battle of Lincoln Park: Cleveland Review of Books
New book details Lincoln Park’s gentrification history: Curbed
Bike Lane Uprising empowers cyclists to report blocked bike lanes, make roads safer: Curbed
Jenny Hval Doesn’t Need Her Politics To Translate To Facebook: Nylon
Journalism Still Carries the Mark of 1968: Columbia Journalism Review
Entering the Grey Zone: Rhizome
Chicago Activist Convention Shifts Focus to Community Benefits Campaign: Shelterforce
A Deeper Critical Consciousness: An Interview with Wayne Au: The Progressive
A Year Later, Can the Grenfell Tower Fire Be a Catalyst for Reimagining Housing Policy?: Shelterforce
In Response to ICE Raids and Family Separation, Immigrant Communities Are Fighting Back: In These Times
Homeownership is Dead. The Future Lies in Public Housing.: In These Times
Buying Into Queer Dance-Punk Trio Shopping: Into
Ezra Furman Writes About His Love Of Lou Reed In New 33 1/3 Ode to 'Transformer': Into
It's Time To Build New, Mixed-Income Public Housing: Shelterforce
The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago: Chicago Review
The Right to Rent Control: Jacobin
The Surprising Reason Why All Google Searches Aren't Created Equal: Colorlines
Ezra Furman and the Fragile Body: The Spark Magazine
In Freezing Chicago Winter, Protesters Stage Camp-In to Protest Unaffordable Rents: In These Times
What Happened When I Let The Shuffle Button Soundtrack My Life: Nylon
The Search For Radical Happiness: On Of Montreal And Queer Masculinity: Nylon
Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate: Chicago Reader
The Chicago Architecture Foundation creates a graphic novel for the city’s future: Chicago Reader
An emotional case for circular time: North By Northwestern
Meritocratic Myths: Jacobin
Do Less, Feel More: North By Northwestern
Twenty-seven years after Straight Outta Compton, can political hip-hop reach white listeners?: Chicago Reader
Does 'objective' reporting distort the truth?: Chicago Reader
Post-marriage equality, disparities persist in the LGBTQ community: Chicago Reader
For Chicago Reader, I explored recent controversy around the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, putting it in conversation with Keith Haring's Self Portrait to ask what HIV/AIDS art offers in the face of another pandemic.
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For Chicago Reader, I wrote about former 46th Ward Alderwoman Helen Shiller's memoir Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win, and the current state of the Uptown community, long one of the nation's most organized neighborhoods.
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For Boston Review, I wrote about Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, and the valuable insights it offers to those looking to dreaming and the unconscious to help build a better world.
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For Lapham's Quarterly, I wrote about the incalcuable loss within queer communities from the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the role of fragile archives in preserving community memory, and the challenge of living in the aftermath of a deadly pandemic.
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For Chicago Reader, I wrote about Queer to the Left, a ragtag group of queer activists who challenged gay gentrification, homonormativity, and the death penalty in Uptown in the late 90s and early 2000s.
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For Majuscule Lit, I wrote about the in-between digital and physical spaces which increasingly populate our world, as forces like gentrification bleed from the physical realm to the digital and back again.
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