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2019

September 2019 – Introverted and OCD: Artist Mandy Cano Villalobos Turns Curator at Kendall College’s Fed Galleries, H.A.C.K. blog (exhibition information)

August 2019 – Drag Syndrome Creates Controversy, But Also Fruitful Conversation About Disability, Queerness, and Performance Art, H.A.C.K. blog (op-ed, critique, panel review)

March 2019 – A Legacy of Love: Selections from The Mable Perkins Collection at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, H.A.C.K. blog (exhibition review)

2018

April 2018 – More of this, please: Making space for equity, Cultured.GR (op-ed, advice, critique)

Feb 2018 – Woman With a Camera: An Underwhelming Exhibition of Women Photographers, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (exhibition review)

Jan 2018 – What is the Value of Criticism?, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (essay, culture critique)

Jan 2018 – “Art and the Mind” Offers Little About Art, Questionable Information on the Mind, Cultured.GR (op-ed, critique)

Jan 2018 – Best Writing Advice, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (essay, advice, critique)

2017

Dec 2017 – Why Do You Criticize Everything?, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (essay, manifesto, culture critique)

Dec 2017 – Illustrating the Life of Frida Kahlo in a Beautiful Vacuum – A Review of Frida, the Film, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (film review)

Dec 2017 – Review: Goddess Supreme Box by Love & Light Healing, ArtSmarts by Aaminah Shakur (product review)

Oct 2017 – Gender, Disability, & Unapologetic Blackness: Afrofuturism’s Brave New World, The Last Angel of History, and Ambiguities of Identity in The Matrix, Rigorous (academic essay) – No longer accessible

Sep 2017 – Against Censorship at KCAD, Aaminah Shakur on Medium (essay/letter)

Aug 2017 – Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, Muskegon Museum of Art, H.A.C.K. Blog (exhibition review)

Jul 2017 – Black Femme Lesbian Identities in the Paintings & Photography of Mickalene Thomas, Rigorous (academic essay) – No longer accessible

Mar 2017 – ‘Art & Healing’ Exhibition at KCAD Offers Different Perspective, The Rapidian (exhibition review)

Mar 2017 – Things To Stop Asking Artists, Designers, Poets, & Writers, or How To Stop Being a Jerk to Creatives, Aaminah Shakur on Medium (essay)

Feb 2017 – US IS THEM Asks Hard Questions & Seeks Communal Solutions, H.A.C.K. Blog (exhibition review)

2016

Jun 2016 – The Land of Here & Now at KCAD Fed Galleries, H.A.C.K. Blog (exhibition overview)

2015

Oct 2015 – Watching You Watch Art: Gallery Guard Reflections, H.A.C.K. Blog (review)

Oct 2015 – Diane di Prima: Art and Activism in Action, Broccoli Addict blog, Monday Inspirations (essay)

Sept 2015 – Race, Gender, & The Best American Poetry, H.A.C.K. Blog (review)

May 2015 – Why a White Poet Should Not Be Attempting to Reclaim the “N-Word”, Hyperallergic (essay)

May 2015 – Who Are the Rightful Owners of Artifacts of Oppression, Hyperallergic (essay)

Apr 2015 – Gazing on Male Spaces of the Orient from Outside and Within, Academia.edu (essay)

Mar 2015 – Break It Down, Make It Better Attempts to Compare Curatorial Practices, H.A.C.K. Blog (review)

Feb 2015 – Art, Magic, and Pagan Theology, Patheos Public Square (essay)

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