This is an ongoing list of my published work.
Essays and Stories
‘On America’s Two-Party System…and the Damage It Has Done’ - Literary Hub
‘Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming’ - Literary Hub
‘Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence’ - Literary Hub
‘Chain-Gang All-Stars Is Gladiators Meets the Prison System’ - The Atlantic
‘On Jellyfish and the Fear of Touch’ - Catapult
‘The Kindred Adaptation Reclaims Octavia Butler’s “Grim Fantasy” for a New Era’ - Literary Hub
‘Art Doesn’t Care If You Like It: On the Sandman Adaptation’ - Literary Hub
‘Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era” - Literary Hub
‘How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre’ - New York Times Magazine
‘Think Being Trans Is a Trend? Consider These 18th-Century “Female Husbands”’- The Guardian
‘Octavia E. Butler’s Visionary Science Fiction’ - Bookforum
‘Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel, and Me’ - Catapult
‘Rewatching Freaks and Geeks in a Polarized America’ - Catapult
Review of Nadia Owusu’s Aftershocks - The Washington Post
‘Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness and Disability’ - Literary Hub
‘The Ghosts of the Trump Presidency Will Linger Longer Than We Think’ - Literary Hub
‘The Year of Breath’ - Catapult
‘How Kuniko Tsurita Shaped Literary Manga History’ - The Atlantic
‘What to Do When Our Heroes Fail Us’ - Forge
‘What the Harper’s Open Letter Get’s Wrong’ - Literary Hub
‘When Will Black Women See Justice?’ - The Cut
‘How J. K. Rowling Betrayed Her Fans’ - Literary Hub
‘Living in Dread of the Next Name We’ll Chant’ - Catapult
‘How E. M. Forster’s Only Foray into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing’ - Literary Hub
‘Why Do We Read Plague Stories?’ - Catapult
‘The Curious Language of Grief’ - Catapult
‘Kamau Brathwaite and the Voice of the Caribbean’ - The New York Review of Books
‘The Wildness of Maurice Sendak’ - Catapult
‘For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock’ - Literary Hub
‘The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today’ - The Atlantic
‘On Justin Trudeau, Virginia Woolf, and the Orientalist History of Brownface’ - Literary Hub
‘Linger’ - Indelible in the Hippocampus (McSweeney’s, edited by Shelly Oria)
‘The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory: On the Origins of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fable of Frustrated Affection’ - Literary Hub
‘How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction’ - Literary Hub
‘Edwidge Danticat Returns to Haiti in New Stories’ - Publishers Weekly
‘How to Eulogize an Animal: On Woolf and Neruda’s Animal Writing’ - Literary Hub
‘Lady of the Moon’ - Poetry Foundation
‘On the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam’ - Literary Hub
‘By the Lamplight’ - Kenyon Review
‘What The Great Gatsby Reveals About the Jazz Age’ - JSTOR Daily
‘James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room’ - Literary Hub
‘Same Fear, Different Decade: On the Damaging Discourse Around Trans Rights’ - Literary Hub
‘How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother” - Literary Hub
‘Even if Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Inspires Wonder, Will It Be Enough?’ - Literary Hub
‘Blackface Is a Strange Ghost that Haunts America’ - The Guardian
‘What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk’ - Literary Hub
‘In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity’ - Literary Hub
‘On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile’ - Literary Hub
‘On Yeats, When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt’ - Literary Hub
‘James Baldwin’s Harlem through a Child’s Eyes’ - New York Review of Books
‘Edward Gorey and the Power of the Ineffable’ - The Atlantic
‘Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression’ - Literary Hub
‘James Baldwin’s Optimism’ - The Paris Review Daily
‘How Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea” Subverted Racism (But Not Sexism)’ - TOR
‘I Will Not Be an Invisible Trans Woman’ - New York Review of Books
‘The Story I Kept Hidden’ - Literary Hub
‘Alone with Elizabeth Bishop’ - New York Review of Books
'On the Enigma of V. S. Naipaul' - Literary Hub
'Specter of Oppression: Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties' - American Book Review
'A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel' - Literary Hub
'How Black Trans Women Are Redefining Beauty Standards' - Harper's Bazaar
'On Marjane Satrapi's Early #MeToo Novel' - Literary Hub
'Music and My Father' - Literary Hub
'Kevin Williamson, Transphobia, and the Myth of Ideological Diversity' - Literary Hub
'Stephen Hawking Was a Poet' - Literary Hub
'Why Dating Another Trans Person Makes It Easier for Me to Love My Own Body' - them
'What Ursula K. Le Guin Meant to Me: Four Writers Remember' - Literary Hub
'The Ugly History of Vilifying Haiti' - Literary Hub
'Surviving 2017 with Borges' - Literary Hub
'The CDC's 7 Word Ban Is an Attempt to Erase Transgender People from Existence' - them
'The Tenuous Nonfiction of Clarice Lispector' - The Paris Review Daily
'Sexual Harassment and Hollywood's Earliest Cartoons' - HuffPost
'The Other Black Invisibles of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man' - Literary Hub
'Hollywood's First Major Harassment Case, 96 Years Before Weinstein' - The Cut
'Why Schools Are Still Banning 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in 2017' - Shondaland
'Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novel' - Literary Hub
'Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It' - Literary Hub
'Octavia Butler: The Past Is All Around This' - Literary Hub
'We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds' - Literary Hub
'The Paradox of a Hurricane' - Literary Hub
'On the Dark, Wondrous Optimism of Ray Bradbury' - Literary Hub
'How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity Is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?' - Literary Hub
'Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Defies Genre' - TOR
'The Ineradicable Color-Line: Danzy Senna's New People' - L. A. Review of Books
'Girl Made of Wood' - Ignota Magazine
'Trump's Shameful, Cruel Ban on People Like Me' - Literary Hub
'Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn't Need, as Important as Ever' - Literary Hub
'Science Fiction's Under-Appreciated Feminist Icon' - The Atlantic
'The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman' - Literary Hub
'The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline' - Literary Hub
'The Real Magic of Moebius' Edena' - TOR
'On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey' - Literary Hub
'A Life Altered by War and Transmuted into Fiction' - New Yorker
'Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People' - Literary Hub
'Derek Walcott: Poet of Twilight, Poet of the Caribbean' - Literary Hub
'The Forgotten Black Woman Behind Betty Boop' - The Cut
'Transhumanism: More Nightmare than Dream?' - Literary Hub
'Milo Might Be Done, But His Transphobia Lingers' - Literary Hub
'The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat' - The New Yorker
'We See What We Want: On the Ever--Widening Political Divide' - Literary Hub
'Calvin and Hobbes Gets Christmas Right' - Electric Literature
'Kurt Vonnegut's Atheist Marvels' - Literary Hub
'What Counts as Transgender Literature?' - Literary Hub
'Finding Empathy in the Face of Hate' - Literary Hub
'Queer Writers in the Age of Trump' - The Atlantic
'Odd, Weird, Scary: 12 Books to Read this Halloween Night' - Literary Hub
'Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Being a Woman' - The Atlantic
'Why Every American Should Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist' - Literary Hub
'On Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners' - Tin House (69: Sex, Again)
'Translations' - Prairie Schooner blog
'The Magic of Miyazaki's Literary Imagination: On Studio Ghibli's Literary DNA' - Literary Hub
'Who Gets to Decide What Counts as "English?"' - Literary Hub
'Why Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature' - Literary Hub
'On Being Queer in the Caribbean' - New York Times Sunday Review
'On the First Novel Published By a Black Caribbean Writer in England' - Huffington Post
'Shipwrecks in Deserts: On Mystic Atheism' - The Toast
'Flight of the Ruler' - Guernica
'Women and the Global Imagination: The Isle of Exile' - Prairie Schooner's blog
'A Trans Woman Enters the Restroom' - Slate
'Fighting Against Ghosthood' - VIDA
'Dreams in a Mirror' - The Normal School
'The True Price of Salt: On the Book that Became Carol' - Autostraddle
'On The Antioch Review, Daniel Harris, and Transphobia' - Medium
'How to Write About Trans Women'- Autostraddle
'Recording Casual Violence and the Banality of Evil' - Harlot Magazine
'Growing Pains' - Caribbean Review of Books
'Skydiving in Two Genders: An Essay on Trans Visibility' - Autostraddle
'Making the Dive and Loving Myself Dangerously' - Autostraddle
'Coconut' - Small Axe (50) (Second-Place Winner of 2015 Small Axe Literary Competition)
'On Noise, Richard O'Brien and Transphobia' - Autostraddle
'Zami' - Moko Magazine (Special Issue for Emerging Caribbean Writers for Nov/Dec, 2015)
'Casual Othering and Literature of the Fantastic' - Fantasy Lit's blog, in two parts
'On Safety, Politics, and Art' - The James Franco Review
'Review: Paris Twilight' - The Southeast Review
'Even Amidst the Carnage of a Flying Saucer's Spontaneous Appearance It May Be Found' - Sx Salon
'Viola and the Passing of the Ghost Train' - Transnational Literature
Interviews and Conversations
Between the Covers: Crafting With Ursula: Gabrielle Bellot on the Power of Names and Naming
'Vastness in Microfiction: An Interview with Jennifer Tseng' - L. A. Review of Books
'Best American, Transphobia, and Literary Editing' - Essay Daily
'Brit Bennett on Place, Isolation, and What It Means to Be Good' - Literary Hub
Some Places I'm Mentioned In
'Reading Like a Writer: Sustaining an Image' - Brevity
'The Intersectional Woman's Reading List' - Buzzfeed
'Gabrielle Bellot and Writing Beyond the Binary' - Ploughshares Blog
'This Writer's On Fire' - featured on The Butter
My speech at the 2017 AWP Candlelight Vigil
'The Best American Animation Writing 2016' - The Dot and Line
'A Woman Who Shouts Into the Sea' - The Rumpus
'"Inundation of Texts": Poets and Writers on Social Media' - Kenyon Review blog
'17 Incredible Autostraddle Essays by Trans Women' - Autostraddle
'Amplifying the Voices of LBT Women in the Caribbean' - Antillean Media Group
Moko Magazine's Special Issue: 'Firing the Canon' (Introduction by Stephen Narain)
