As a writer, cultural critic, and musician my work explores race, queer politics, institutional power, subculture, and Black radical cultural production. My writing examines culture as a site of political struggle, with particular attention to race, sexuality, and the institutionalisation of diversity.

 

Books and Chapters

British Library

Pauline Black, A Black women’s voice in Two-tone. Chapter contribution Beyond The Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music.

Anthologies

Essay contributor, Sista! An Anthology of Writing by and about Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent (Team Angelica Publishing, 2018).

Institutional Critique, Cultural Policy, and Race

Attacks on the Arts Are Part of the Tories’ Culture War (Novara Media, 2021)

People Are Waking Up to the Horrors of Police Brutality. It’s Time to Build a Movement (Novara Media, 2021)

England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up (Novara Media, 2021)

The Right Are Panicking About Anti-Racism — As Well They Should Be (Novara Media, 2021)

Queer Politics, Nightlife, and Institutional Power

Pride Has Forgotten Its Truly Radical Roots (Dazed, 2018)

They Only Want Us When We Are Not There: Race, Queer Space, and Nightlife Power (Urban Pamphleteer, 2018)

Music, Subculture, and Radical Cultural Production

The Radical Politics of Nina Simone (Tribune/Jacobin Magazine, 2021)

tQ’s Essential Picks: Fat Out Fest 2024 (The Quietus, 2024)

Cultural Theory, Race, and Speculative Thought

Afrofuturism: Where Space, Pyramids and Politics Collide (The Guardian, 2014)

Where Are the Black Women in Science Fiction? (Media Diversified, 2014)

Essays, Pamphlets, and Independent Writing
Past examples:

On the Scene is a 3 part series looking at the importance of style to Black British women in music subcultures. Britain is often considered the home of subcultures such as Mod, Punk, Skinhead, Goth and Grime that have spread across the globe. On the Scene is being developed by Chardine Taylor-Stone in collaboration with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, for their exhibition AFRICA FORECAST: Fashioning Contemporary Life  

Diva Magazine
Singing Their Praises: Celebrating LGBTQ women of colour for Black History Month

Afropunk
Black Girl’s Picnic: A movement in collective self-care

The Roundhouse
Punk gave me the confidence as a Black woman to break the mould