essays

2023 Foreword to Bhanu Kapil’s Incubation: A Space for Monsters

2023 “On Heaven, Earth and Hell,” From Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien’s “Offerings for Escalante”

2023 Foreword to Willyce Kim’s Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid: Looking for the Dykes Who Longed for an American Revolution

2023 Poetry for the People

2022 A Work Fatality: Parasite and Class Antagonism

2021 We Hope You Can See Your Way Home: On the Work of Divya Mehra

2021 An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard

2021 Equal Suffering For All

2021 A Reflection with Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20

2021 For Those of Us Who Cannot Leave or Stay—

2021 Fighting for a World Without War: Interview with Transnational Activist Jungmin Choi

2020 Petty Materialism: On Metaphor & Violence

2020 We Owe Our Antagonizers NOTHING: a Review of Dorothy Wang’s “Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry”

2020 remain     | un | conquered

2019 On the Colonial Inheritance of 2001

2019 Foreword from Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? co-written with Sung Gi Kim

2018 Towards a World Without War: A Conversation with Transnational Activist Jungmin Choi

2018-2016 essays from contemptorary

2017 Appraising Newness: Whiteness, Neoliberalism & the Building of the Archive for New Poetry

2016 Found, Found, Found, Lived, Lived, Lived: The Archival Labor of Carrie Mae Weems & Sasha Huber

2015 The Politics of Trending

2015 Neoliberal Aesthetics: 250cm Line on 6 Paid People. Lateral Journal of Cultural Studies.

2015 NO MINCING ALLOWED AS THE ENEMY IS NEVER ABSTRACT

2015 Poetry Without Poets

2015 Art Without Artists! Against the Artist CEO co-written with Maya Isabella Mackrandilal. The essay was translated into Spanish by Sara Plaza for the newspaper Rebelion El arte sin artistas: contra el artista CEO

2014 The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women co-written with Maya Isabella Mackrandilal

2014 Refusal=Intervention “Asian American Poetry” is not a manageable category—it is not a list co-written with Don Mee Choi