Manufacturing the “Other”: Racialized Nationalism, Counterterrorism, and the Domestic Creation of the U.S. War on Terror

Reparative and community-based approaches are necessary to address the lasting harms inflicted by the War on Terror. Measures such as record expungement, compensation for wrongful prosecutions, and formal acknowledgment of state wrongdoing offer more effective pathways to public safety than surveillance. Together, these reforms challenge the use of national security as a mechanism of racial governance and provide a pathway toward dismantling the institutional legacies of the War on Terror.

‘The United States of America: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave’

This piece was created in February 2024 in response to my growing concerns with the state of the American political and social justice systems. The previous summer, I read No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The book significantly influenced my understanding of our modern criminal justice system, particularly the […]

The Youth Public History Institute Newsletter

This summer I had the honor of being the project assistant and documenter for the Youth Public History Institute, a new project conceived by Mariame Kaba of Project NIA and Interrupting Criminalization focusing on the histories of prisons, slavery and rebellion, policing and surveillance, research and social justice. I created a visual and written record […]

Social Justice Posters

I recently worked on three posters in my free time and I wanted to share them. These issues around ending gun violence, criminal justice, and LGBTQ+ rights are some that are very important to me. End Gun Violence The graphic uses headlines from primary news sources. My goal when creating this graphic was to highlight […]