"The writing and the thought that propels it is the desire for a radically different order than the one in which we're living."
Saidiya Hartman, On Working with the Archives, 2018
Saidiya Hartman, On Working with the Archives, 2018
Select Written Work.
2026. "Abolition" in Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity, eds., Madeleine Hamlin and Carlos Delclos. Co-authored with Madeleine Hamlin.
Read the entry: books.google.com/books?id=xxRzEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
2024. "Urban Renewal in Northern Virginia" in Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities.
Read the essay: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/urban-renewal-in-northern-virginia/.
2023. "Tearing Down and Building Up: A History, Theory, and Practice of Abolitionist Housing Justice in the US," in Handbook on Planning and Power, eds., Michael Gunder, Tanja Winkler, and Kristina Grange. Elgar.
Read the chapter: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2Ei-EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA211&dq=info:5ejs4GeL6bYJ:scholar.google.com&ots=yZiMLFbiah&sig=Du-HSehqGtCaeIb0hirN6FP6jmg#v=onepage&q&f=false.
2022. "Reaping What We Sow: The Decolonizing Root of Black Experiments with Cooperative Housing and Land Tenure," in Interface: Housing For People, Not For Profit - Models of Community-Led Housing, ed., Lisa Bates, Planning Theory & Practice 23 (2). DOI:10.1080/14649357.2022.2057784
Read the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2022.2057784?src=.
2022. "Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness," Radical Housing Journal 4 (1): 71-94. Co-authored with Ananya Roy, Ashley Bennett, Annie Powers, and Sam Lutzker, on behalf of the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective.
Read the article: https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2022/continuum-of-carcerality/.
2022. (Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community After Echo Park Lake. Published by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Co-authored with Ananya Roy et al.
Read the report: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70r0p7q4.
2021. "Black Landscapes Matter Asks Why Black Landscapes Are Separate from Landscape Design," The Architect's Newspaper Book Review.
Read the book review: www.archpaper.com/2021/10/black-landscapes-matter-black-landscapes-are-separate-landscape-design/.
2021. "Book Review - Public Los Angeles: A Private City's Activist Futures," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45 (3): 525-526.
Read the book review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.13020.
2020. "Black Study and Abolition," The Black Agenda Report Book Forum.
Read the essay: https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-black-study-and-abolition-5.
2020. For the Crisis Yet to Come: Temporary Settlements in the Era of Evictions. Published by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy as part of the Housing Justice in the Age of COVID-19 series. Co-authored with Gary Blasi.
Read the report: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tk6p1rk.
2020. "'We're Here, We Ain't Hiding, We Ain't Going Nowhere': How Community Land Trusts and Solidarity Economies are the Latest Strategies for Black Liberation in Mississippi," Deem Journal 1: 54-57.
Read the essay: deem_winter_2020_-_jan_31_2020_-_2-40_pm.pdf.
2019. "Contested Memory III: The Rebel Archive," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/the-rebel-archive.
Republished in GIA Reader 30 (2): 18-22, https://www.giarts.org/article/contested-memory.
2019. "Contested Memory II: Cartographies of Freedom," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/contested-memory-pt-2-cartographies-of-freedom.
2018. "Contested Memory I: Syncopation," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/contested-memory-pt-1-syncopation.
2018. "Black Geographies and the Question of Monuments," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/the-question-of-monuments.
2016. "Encountering Migration Dynamics in the Archives," Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Read the essay: http://si-siris.blogspot.com/2016/10/encountering-migration-dynamics-in.html.
2010. "This Extraordinary Woman: Portraits of Female Curiosities in Early American Print Culture," The Library Company of Philadelphia.
View the online exhibit: http://librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/.
2026. "Abolition" in Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity, eds., Madeleine Hamlin and Carlos Delclos. Co-authored with Madeleine Hamlin.
Read the entry: books.google.com/books?id=xxRzEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
2024. "Urban Renewal in Northern Virginia" in Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities.
Read the essay: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/urban-renewal-in-northern-virginia/.
2023. "Tearing Down and Building Up: A History, Theory, and Practice of Abolitionist Housing Justice in the US," in Handbook on Planning and Power, eds., Michael Gunder, Tanja Winkler, and Kristina Grange. Elgar.
Read the chapter: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2Ei-EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA211&dq=info:5ejs4GeL6bYJ:scholar.google.com&ots=yZiMLFbiah&sig=Du-HSehqGtCaeIb0hirN6FP6jmg#v=onepage&q&f=false.
2022. "Reaping What We Sow: The Decolonizing Root of Black Experiments with Cooperative Housing and Land Tenure," in Interface: Housing For People, Not For Profit - Models of Community-Led Housing, ed., Lisa Bates, Planning Theory & Practice 23 (2). DOI:10.1080/14649357.2022.2057784
Read the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2022.2057784?src=.
2022. "Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness," Radical Housing Journal 4 (1): 71-94. Co-authored with Ananya Roy, Ashley Bennett, Annie Powers, and Sam Lutzker, on behalf of the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective.
Read the article: https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2022/continuum-of-carcerality/.
2022. (Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community After Echo Park Lake. Published by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Co-authored with Ananya Roy et al.
Read the report: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70r0p7q4.
2021. "Black Landscapes Matter Asks Why Black Landscapes Are Separate from Landscape Design," The Architect's Newspaper Book Review.
Read the book review: www.archpaper.com/2021/10/black-landscapes-matter-black-landscapes-are-separate-landscape-design/.
2021. "Book Review - Public Los Angeles: A Private City's Activist Futures," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45 (3): 525-526.
Read the book review: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.13020.
2020. "Black Study and Abolition," The Black Agenda Report Book Forum.
Read the essay: https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-black-study-and-abolition-5.
2020. For the Crisis Yet to Come: Temporary Settlements in the Era of Evictions. Published by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy as part of the Housing Justice in the Age of COVID-19 series. Co-authored with Gary Blasi.
Read the report: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tk6p1rk.
2020. "'We're Here, We Ain't Hiding, We Ain't Going Nowhere': How Community Land Trusts and Solidarity Economies are the Latest Strategies for Black Liberation in Mississippi," Deem Journal 1: 54-57.
Read the essay: deem_winter_2020_-_jan_31_2020_-_2-40_pm.pdf.
2019. "Contested Memory III: The Rebel Archive," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/the-rebel-archive.
Republished in GIA Reader 30 (2): 18-22, https://www.giarts.org/article/contested-memory.
2019. "Contested Memory II: Cartographies of Freedom," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/contested-memory-pt-2-cartographies-of-freedom.
2018. "Contested Memory I: Syncopation," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/contested-memory-pt-1-syncopation.
2018. "Black Geographies and the Question of Monuments," Monument Lab.
Read the essay: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/the-question-of-monuments.
2016. "Encountering Migration Dynamics in the Archives," Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Read the essay: http://si-siris.blogspot.com/2016/10/encountering-migration-dynamics-in.html.
2010. "This Extraordinary Woman: Portraits of Female Curiosities in Early American Print Culture," The Library Company of Philadelphia.
View the online exhibit: http://librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/.
Select Editorial Work.
2020. Methodologies for Housing Justice: Resource Guide. // Metodologías para la justicia de la vivienda: Guía de recursos.
Co-edited with Ananya Roy, Raquel Rolnik, and Terra Graziani.
Translated into Spanish by Izul de la Vega, Marie Leiner, Maxwell Greenberg, and Claudia Gomez Garcia.
Read the volume in English: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41g6f5cj.
Read the volume in Spanish: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v76q8q5.
2019. Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. Co-edited with Ananya Roy.
Read the volume: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kq1j0df.
2020. Methodologies for Housing Justice: Resource Guide. // Metodologías para la justicia de la vivienda: Guía de recursos.
Co-edited with Ananya Roy, Raquel Rolnik, and Terra Graziani.
Translated into Spanish by Izul de la Vega, Marie Leiner, Maxwell Greenberg, and Claudia Gomez Garcia.
Read the volume in English: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41g6f5cj.
Read the volume in Spanish: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v76q8q5.
2019. Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. Co-edited with Ananya Roy.
Read the volume: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kq1j0df.
Select Press Mentions.
2022. Quoted in The Guardian on failures of homelessness governance in Los Angeles.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/homelessness-los-angeles-lahsa-heidi-marston.
2022. Quoted in The Guardian about research on homelessness and mortality in Los Angeles.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/los-angeles-echo-park-unhoused-residents-homelessness.
2021. Quoted in Grist magazine on homelessness, encampments, and evictions in Los Angeles.
Read the article: https://grist.org/housing/los-angeles-echo-park-homelessness-policing-housing-covid/.
2020. Interviewed on KPCC 89.3 (NPR Pasadena) connecting evictions to homelessness in Los Angeles.
Listen to the interview: https://archive.kpcc.org/programs/take-two/2020/08/05/21076/.
2019. Quoted in Next City about community-engaged research at UCLA.
Read the article: https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/finding-ways-to-turn-the-university-model-inside-out.
2022. Quoted in The Guardian on failures of homelessness governance in Los Angeles.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/homelessness-los-angeles-lahsa-heidi-marston.
2022. Quoted in The Guardian about research on homelessness and mortality in Los Angeles.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/los-angeles-echo-park-unhoused-residents-homelessness.
2021. Quoted in Grist magazine on homelessness, encampments, and evictions in Los Angeles.
Read the article: https://grist.org/housing/los-angeles-echo-park-homelessness-policing-housing-covid/.
2020. Interviewed on KPCC 89.3 (NPR Pasadena) connecting evictions to homelessness in Los Angeles.
Listen to the interview: https://archive.kpcc.org/programs/take-two/2020/08/05/21076/.
2019. Quoted in Next City about community-engaged research at UCLA.
Read the article: https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/finding-ways-to-turn-the-university-model-inside-out.