Essays, Articles, Interviews
The Audacity of Home: POOR Magazine’s New Paradigm of Place, Bitch, November 2012
Homo Work: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Bitch, March 2012
The Art of Survival, GOOD, March 2012
Megaphone: Q&A with Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, make/shift no. 10, Fall/Winter 2011-2012
Embodying Power through Pleasure: An Interview with Pa’ti Garcia, make/shift no. 8, Fall/Winter 2010-2011
The New Mythos Project: An Interview with tk (tanya karakashian) tunchez, make/shift no. 8, Fall/Winter 2010-2011
Flipping the Script on Poverty: welfareQueens, ColorLines, October 2009
Interview: Mapping Home with First-Time Novelist Randa Jarrar, Bitch, Spring 2009
Black Farmers Urge Obama to Keep Promises, ColorLines, April 2009
Farm Subsidies Overwhelmingly Support White Farmers, ColorLines, January/February 2009
The Last Plantation: Black Farmers and the USDA, ColorLines, January/February 2009
Giving Circles: A Round, make/shift no. 4, Fall/Winter 2008/09
Liar’s Poker: Interview with Hilary Goldberg, Bitch, Winter 2008
Interview: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Rain Taxi, Winter 2008
Flash Point, ColorLines, March/April 2008
Turning to Tasers, ColorLines, November 2007
LAPD Gentrifies Skid Row, ColorLines, September/October 2007 (re-published at AlterNet)
Look for It Everywhere: An E-Symposium on Feminist Art, make/shift no. 2, Fall 2007
This Is Not a Travel Essay, Kitchen Sink, Summer 2007
Gay Mom’s Happy as She Goes It Alone, Single Mother, May/June 2007
Skid Row Homeless Displaced but Still Homeless, The NewStandard, 4/13/07
No One’s Gonna Do It For Us: A Roundtable on Journalism, Activism, and the Left, LOUDmouth, Spring 2007
Two-Wheelin’ in Tinseltown: On Cars, Class, the Planet, the System, and Riding a Bike in L.A., Kitchen Sink, Winter 2006
LAX Hotel Workers Hungry for Living Wage, The NewStandard, 12/12/06
Making Space for Movement, DIY-Lady Style, We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, Seal Press, 2006
Sometimes It Flies: Talking with Amber Hollibaugh, LOUDmouth, Fall 2006
L.A. Cops Crack Down on Skid Row as Gentrification Looms, The NewStandard, 10/17/06
Making Change, Covering Homelessness in Los Angeles: Interview with Rick Mantley, The NewStandard, 10/15/06
Better Than Books: Or, How I Learned to Stop Fronting and Love the Magazine, Kitchen Sink, Summer 2006
White Supremacy in Media: An Interview with Time Wise, The NewStandard, 8/13/06
South Central Farmers Lose Latest Court Fight, The NewStandard, 7/27/06
Protestors Resist Sheriffs, Developers in Fight to Save L.A. Farm, The NewStandard, 6/16/06
Indie Auteurs, Depressed Middle-Aged Murrays, and the Girl, Kitchen Sink, Spring 2006
Immigrants Demonstrate Power through Strike, Boycott, Protests, The NewStandard, 5/02/06
L.A. Urban Farmers Fight for Community Garden, The NewStandard, 4/05/06
History of the South Central Farm, The NewStandard, 4/05/06
14 Acres: Conversations Across Chasms in South Central Los Angeles, Clamor, Spring 2006
The Author Eats: A Food Diary, LOUDmouth, Spring 2006
Various Articles, woa.tv: The Women of Action Network, Fall 2005 to Winter 2006
Everybody Cut: Transgressive Leaps on the Big Screen, Kitchen Sink 12, Fall 2005
Writersblock Colony: On Cabin Fever in Paradise, Kitchen Sink, Fall 2005
These People Live Here: On Gentrification, LOUDmouth, Summer 2005
Watching Alone Kitchen Sink, Summer 2005 (Reprinted in The Quiet Feather, UK)
Here’s Why: In Defense of Rules of Democratic Engagement, Salty, Spring 2005
Fashionable Neighborhoods: Displacing the Other in Style on L.A.’s Eastside, LOUDmouth, Spring 2005
Ladies, Is This Freedom? On Egg-Freezing, Desire Los Angeles, 4/11/05
Neil LaBute, I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You, Kitchen Sink, Spring 2005
Representing the Truth in Lying Times: Political Documentaries and the Politics of Non-Fiction Forms, Kitchen Sink, Winter 2005
Um, Tina Fey, I Don’t Mean to Be Mean: Satirizing Girls on Film, Kitchen Sink, Fall 2004
Shark Steak and a Side of Memory Loss? Desire Los Angeles, 11/08/04
The Fringes, They’re Sparklin’: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, LOUDmouth, Fall 2004
Thank Goodness for Radical Queers, Bitch, Summer 2004
Iron Jawed Angels: Radical Activists Past, Present, and on HBO, Desire Los Angeles, 8/16/04
Work, Family, and the Law, Desire Los Angeles, 8/09/04
Is This Democracy? Interview with Karen Bass, LOUDmouth, Summer 2004
Voting and the Electorally Estranged Single Gal, Desire Los Angeles, 7/19/04
Insuring Reproductive Freedom: Covering Contraception, Desire Los Angeles, 6/28/04
Conjuring the Ghosts of Fondas Past, Clamor, May/June 2004
Sex, Power, and Paint: Interview with Abelina Galustian, LOUDmouth, Spring 2004
Thinking Class, Class-ing Thought, Kitchen Sink, Winter 2004
What Women Want: Some Valentine’s Day Thoughts on Shopping, Love, and Critical Thinking, Nervy Girl, February 2004
Schwarzenegger’s Budget Proposal Belies Campaign Promise to Be a “Champion for Women”, Desire Los Angeles, 2/02/04
Men Are for MACH3, Women Are Children, Nervy Girl, January 2004
Victoria’s (Dirty Little) Secret, Nervy Girl, December 2003
Try Me! Bobble My Head!, Nervy Girl, November 2003, Winner of the Nervy Girl Column Contest
Accessing Reproductive Freedom: Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception, Desire Los Angeles, Summer 2003
Bush’s Anti-Abortion Campaign: Thinking Globally About Freedom of Choice, Desire Los Angeles, Spring 2003
The Big Business of Prisons, LOUDmouth, Fall 2003
Together, Apart, Making Connections: Mother-Daughter Travel Tales, Seal Press, 2003
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Pacifist, Bitch, April 2003
Blog
Criticism
Dance: Pat Graney’s Faith and MAO’s Tempest, make/shift no. 11, spring/summer 2012
Film: Absent, Present, make/shift no. 10, Fall/Winter 2011-2012
Film: South Main make/shift no. 6, Fall/Winter 2009-2010
Film: Homotopia, make/shift no. 2, Fall/Winter 2007-2008
Film: View from a Grain of Sand, make/shift no. 1, Spring/Summer 2007
Film: By Invitation Only, make/shift no. 1, Spring/Summer 2007
Zine: Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries: A Collection of Radical Queer Moments, make/shift no. 1, Spring/Summer 2007
Book: Edens Lost and Found, Social Policy, Spring 2007
Journal: Meena, Vol. 1, Clamor, Summer 2006
Book: Politics by Adam Thirlwell, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 2003
Book: Hotel World by Ali Smith, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 2002
Fiction
Behind the Wheel, elimae, October 2005
The Woman Who Raised Me, My Mother, Watchword 8, Fall 2005
The Numbers, Fine, pindeldyboz, Summer 2004
Armando: A Biography in 926 Words, Other Voices (Canada), Vol. 13, December 2000, Winner of the Other Voices Millennium Prize for Fiction
Poetry
Day 49, The 365 Project, 2003
Post (a Present), Inhabiting the Body, Moon Journal Press, 2002
Copywriting
Print and web materials for organizations working in transit, healthcare, higher education, and other fields. Samples and client list available upon request.