selected writing
on labor and cultural production
Game Plan - The Baffler
Forecasting the next stage of #freelanceflailing amid so many failed labor relations - National Sawdust
Part 1: Interpersonal harm is a predictable horror of the art world
Part 2: If me valuing myself sounds like a threat, your power trip has already gone too far
For Freelance Artists, Workers Compensation Is Usually Out Of Reach - The Establishment
Dancers are Choreographers, Too. It's Time for Dance Criticism to Reflect That - Dance Magazine
Mixed Means and Precarious Performance: Dancers on Nick Mauss's Transmissions - The Brooklyn Rail
Pay to play: the costs of carving new space for dance - The Brooklyn Rail
on live performance, film & tv
Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's The Stroll - BOMB Magazine #165Trans in Trumpland Shows the Benefits, and Limits, of Glossy Representation - Vanity Fair
On 7NMS' A Prophet’s Tale: Portrait of the Lyricist - Baryshnikov Arts Center
On Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheRedProjectNYC 's process memoir 4 - Danspace Project Journal
a written response plus an interview with Johnnie!
The Work Is Never Done' at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archives - The Brooklyn Rail
#bennyboosbookclub
Reading Group Guide - And Then He Sang a Lullaby - Grove AtlanticIn ‘Horse Barbie,’ model Geena Rocero reflects on the glamour and scrutiny of trans womanhood - SF Chronicle
Fragments of the Asian Diaspora: On New Novels by Julie Otsuka and Jessica Au - Los Angeles Review of Books
Queer Superiority Complex or Well-Earned Snark? - INTO
“To Paradise” Isn’t About Gay Suffering: It’s About Daddy Issues, Disability, and Homonationalism - INTO
Winking Away Diasporic Anxiety: On Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties” - INTO
essays on movement
Horse Girl, Trans Girl - Factory Internationalstylish muscling - In Dance (special edition slushee)
profiles & interviews
Interview with noam keim - BOMB MagazineInterview with Jasmine Gibson - Nightboat Blog
Collective Mythmaking: interview with zavé martohardjono - BOMB Magazine
Just Two Beautiful Asian Bimbos: Interview with Jean Chen Ho - BOMB Magazine
Droning Across Postcolonial Borders: An Interview with Alex Quicho - AAWW's The Margins
Inside Kei Concepts, Los Angeles' Vietnamese-Owned Food Empire - Vietcetera
Artist NIC Kay seeks balance during the pandemic - ESPN's Andscape
Suiting up the Queer Community (with Thúy H. Nguyen) - Shondaland
Voices in the Archive: An Interview with Monique Truong - AAWW's The Margins
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"bezel bleed" and "nom nom norm" - Flypaper Lit"bốn bạn bán bốn bàn bẩn, ha" - AAWW's the Margins
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