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Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab
Founder & Co-Organizer A collaborative of six interdisciplinary scholars from across the United States. Produces publications, events, and experimental projects by/for/about trans of color historyworkers. Co-organized with Delan Ellington, Nathalie Nia Faulk, Alejandrina M. Medina, Joshua K Reason, and Fabian Romero. Funded by the Mellon Foundation. The T4T Project
Creator & Organizer A transnational zine by, for, and about trans artists and storytellers of color. Grassroots cultural workers use essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, art, media, and more to reclaim and reinvent trans of color identity, community, memory, history, folklore, and mythology across the diaspora. Kin/Folk/Lore: A Community-Led History Project
Creator & Co-Organizer An oral history project and participatory archive. Everyday Philadelphians forge unlikely connections across cultures, generations, and neighborhoods through storytelling. Inspired by Anna Deavere Smith's docu-play Fires in the Mirror. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, PA Humanities, and others. |
Surprise! A Trans-Queer Film
(Coming Soon) Creator The Surprise of a Knight is an antique docuporn that troubles popular notions of trans-queer identity and pleasure politics in the early twentieth century. This project explores contingencies for interpretation when archival provenance does not exist. 
Art Smart
Co-Organizer An arts and education initiative in public schools across Philadelphia. Infuses standard K-12 literacy, social studies, math, and science curricula with hands-on, multidisciplinary art projects to enhance the classroom experience and make learning accessible for all. Funded by the US Department of Education. 
The API Transmasculine Anthology
Co-Organizer A grassroots story project by, for, and about the intergenerational Asian Pacific Islander transmasculine community. Offers free, accessible workshops for collaborators from around the world to find support, amplify one another, and share in the healing power of art and writing. 
Insider/Outsider:
Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation Lead Organizer A working group on power and privilege hosted by the National Council on Public History. From 2017 to 2019, humanists of color across the nation dialogued around racism in their respective fields. 
Still Fighting For Our Lives:
A History of HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia Consultant & Researcher A multimedia exhibition from the John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives commemorating 30 years of HIV/AIDS activism in Philadelphia. Curated by elder activists, local scholars, and community leaders. |
A Trans of Color History Zine
Creator & Contributor A zine by, for, and about trans historyworkers of color. Offers new avenues of creative scholarship, historiographic reparations, and decolonization. Co-edited with Delan Ellington, Nathalie Nia Faulk, Alejandrina M. Medina, Joshua K Reason, and Fabian Romero. 
The Nicetown-Tioga
Improvement Team Co-Organizer A grassroots collective of over 300 North Philadelphia residents and community organizations formed in 1998. Organizes youth programs, greening projects, skill sharing workshops, and neighborhood forums that address issues such as gentrification, health, and safety. 
Before Things Fell Apart
Consultant & Researcher A documentary film series created by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi of History Detectives and the Penn Museum's Africa Galleries. Reimagining the oral histories of West African griots, this project synthesizes precolonial art, history, and storytelling with a decolonial praxis. 
Illegal to Be You:
Gay History Beyond Stonewall Researcher An exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, curated by Dr. Katherine Ott. Part of the Smithsonian Channel documentary Beyond Stonewall. 
The Semiotics of Sex:
A History of Queer Identity Politics Creator A multiplatform digital history project honoring the 150th anniversary of queer German activist Karl Heinrich Ulrich's public demonstration. Showcases different methods for interpretation, such as virtual heritage and textual analysis. |
This Is, Was, & Will Be Chinatown: A History Exhibit
Researcher A crowdsourced archival project and exhibit organized by the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation. Celebrates the 150+ year history of Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Funded by —. 
Call: New Protest Songs
Co-Organizer A multi-genre album of fourteen 21st-century protest songs. Combines the narrative and artistic powers of over 40 Philadelphia songwriters, singers, and musicians of color. Examines issues of police brutality, mental health, housing insecurity, and more. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. 
Scholars of Color Conference
Creator & Co-Organizer A free, international event celebrating scholars of color and their research. In 2019, over 200 participants with backgrounds in the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, business, and law gathered in Philadelphia to explore the inaugural theme, "Ways of Knowing." 
Walden, A Game
Researcher A free, educational, award-winning, cross-platform video game funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Uses an open world simulation and interactive storytelling to augment art, humanities, and STEM curricula for students K-12. 
"One Manly Soul":
White Masculinities in Late Colonial America Creator An exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania examining race, gender, and power in late colonial America. Uses materials from the Digital Paxton Project to document the pamphlet war of 1764. |
Finding Ceremony
Researcher A reparationist project convened by aAliy Muhammad and Dr. Lyra Monteiro. Responds to the Penn Museum's abuse of the Morton Cranial Collection, MOVE remains, and 12,000 other people in its collections. Facilitates a descendant community-controlled process, using history and protest as care work and spirituality. 
Public Annotations
Contributor An open-access research program from the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, curated by Amber Esseiva. Fostering knowledge production through dialogue, audiences write in the margins of exhibitions' key texts and didactics. Part of the "Erotic Consumption: Sex, Desire, & Propagation" series. 
The Inclusive
Historian's Handbook Contributor An online publication for service-oriented historians. Sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History and National Council on Public History. Edited by Modupe Labode, William S. Walker, and Robert Weible. 
PubComm:
Public History Community Forum Co-Organizer A free, annual public history event based in Philadelphia. Over 50 participants involved in grassroots activism, education, and preservation gathered in 2018 to dialogue around “Racism & Resistance," led by local community leaders of color. 
LGBTQ Activism & Organizing Timeline on OutHistory.org
Consultant & Researcher An online, transnational timeline and bibliography of queer activism, organizing, and resistance curated by Jonathan Ned Katz. Created for the 2016 Gay American History @ 40 conference; now crowdsourcing contributions. |
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