Reporting

• Can Digital Media About Feminism Actually be Feminist?, Study Hall
• “Nobody’s Listening”: Teachers Raise Alarm Over COVID Testing Delays, Truthout
• Museum Workers Are Joining the Growing Labor Movement, Truthout
• ‘The Long Dream’ and a labor nightmare, Chicago Reader
• Inside the fight for racial equity at SAIC, Chicago Reader
• Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back., Truthout
• The toll of coronavirus, Chicago Reader
• Punk’s not dead – and it’s not white either, Chicago Reader
• Chicago Dyke March returns after clash last year became international news, Chicago Reader
• Students Push for Restorative Approaches to Campus Sexual Assault, Truthout

Profiles

• A Public Art Project Tackles Unceded Land in Chicago, Belt Mag
• When art and life are intertwined, Chicago Reader
• Growing together at the El Paseo Community Garden, Chicago Reader
• Faheem Majeed’s art holds up a mirror to institutions, and himself, Chicago Reader
• Elaine Kahn’s words cut like a knife, Chicago Reader
• Vihanga has arrived, Chicago Reader
• Alberto Aguilar draws no distinction between art and life, Chicago Reader
• Learning to love Chicago with your ears, Chicago Reader
• Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul, Chicago Reader
• Shifting Power: A Feminist History of Alternative Spaces in Chicago, Newcity
• For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago, Chicago Reader
• The Punk “Radiance and Rage” of Fuck U Pay Us, Bandcamp Daily
• A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day, Chicago Reader
• How Amanda Williams draws attention to the valuation of black neighborhoods, Chicago Reader
• David Leggett has the last laugh, Chicago Reader

 Interviews

• Artist and graphic novelist Jessica Campbell on making work from your own life, The Creative Independent
• Carlos Barberena’s Prints Are Humanizing Testaments of Immigrant Stories, Borderless Magazine
• Artist of the Moment 2020: Maria Gaspar, Newcity
• The Revolution Starts Here: Chicagoans Imagining a More Just Art World, Newcity
• Liz Phair’s Time in Chicago Wasn’t All Horror Stories, Chicago Magazine
• Pure Joy: Bridge-building between arts nonprofits and the punk community in Chicago, The Media
• Jessica Hopper Recalls When Rent Was $250 in Wicker Park, Chicago Magazine
• Respite From Total Boredom: An Interview With gSp, The Media
• Live Your Life Like a Work of Art: An Interview with Jean Smith of Mecca Normal, The Media

Essays and Criticism

• What are human rights to the incarcerated?, Chicago Reader
• Art and culture on their own terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts”, Chicago Review of Books
• A Feminist Art Collective Gets a Historic Home, Hyperallergic
• ‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village, Chicago Reader
• How Photographer Laura Aguilar Uplifted Queer, Chicano Identities, Chicago Magazine
• Seeing Womanism Through the Artists’ Lens, a Review of Zakkiyyah Najeebah at Adds Donna, Newcity
• The Black Panthers’ Local Legacy – in Art, Chicago Magazine
• Nothing to Lose but our Chains, Newcity
• Portrait of the Artist: Barbara Kasten, Newcity
• Portrait of the Artist: Chances Dances, Newcity
• Photos of the Capitalistic Imagery that Overwhelms Beirut’s Landscape, Hyperallergic
• Best of Punk monthly Bandcamp column
• Ice Cream’s Cool Pop Bites Back, Bandcamp Daily
• A Latino Punk Band Looks Back on 25 Years of Music, Art, and Activist Resistance, Hyperallergic
• Silenced by the Rest Cure, The Hairpin
• Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, The Media