These essays and comics have appeared in various publications for academic journals, activist non-profits, museums, and local publications.
Inside and Out: Black Trans Women Incarcerated in the South
Inside and Out: Black Trans Women Incarcerated in the South, Published by Mississippi Quarterly 74.1 (2021): 9–30 © 2022 Mississippi State University, Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Covid-19 and Alternative Structures of Care, Written by Sara Yinling Post and illustrated by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams as part of the Graphic Medicine Collective’s project to document the impact of Covid-19 . Read it at the Frontline Comics Webpage here:
Cloverine was created as a response to a project inspired by archival materials from The NY State Training School for Girls, which was a carceral institution, in Hudson, NY. It is part of a larger project directed by Dr. Tobi Jacobi (Colorado State University) and Dr. Laura Rogers (Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences).
A War In Black and White
A War in Black and White was published by Southern Cultures in the summer of 2013. It details the 1898 coup and subsequent massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina. Specifically I sought to explore the ways the editorial cartoons of Norman E. Jennett fed into the insidious machine of the democratic party in order to disenfranchise black men through fear and racial hatred.
Men Who Could Draw
This was published in the International Journal of Comics Art in 2012. http://www.ijoca.com It is about the elections of 1898 in North Carolina, the subsequent massacre in Wilmington, and the cartoons of Norman E. Jennett.
Little village
This small comic was published in a special edition of Little Village (http://littlevillagemag.com) in January of 2013. The comics edition was guest-edited by Shane O'Shaughnessy.
Women in Prison created for the Justice Institute
This was a small comic created for the Justice Institute's publication,"Incarceration Generation". The book, "... brings together commentary from 19 researchers, advocates, and people who have personally experienced the system to illuminate how mass incarceration has impacted our nation. Through their essays, this book highlights the specific populations impacted by mass incarceration, as well as the different aspects of our practice and procedures that propel these populations into the justice system." http://www.justicepolicy.org/news/6239
Brewing Beer
This is a comic I made as part of a comics and beer workshop I gave at the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapid in April of 2015 as part of the kick off events for their year of beer festivities.
Girls in the System
This was a publication I produced as part of the Juvenile Justice series published by the Hull House Museum in Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Freedom School
The School to Prison Pipeline
I created this comic as part of a collaborative curated exhibit and outreach program called "Unfinished Business-Juvenile Justice" sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Chicago Freedom School and Project NIA in 2011.
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_programsevents/_upcomingevents/_2011/_zinereleaseparty/may12.html
A Graphic History of the Juvenile Justice System in Illinois
This piece was part of a curated exhibit and outreach program called "Unfinished Business-Juvenile Justice" sponsored by Project NIA, The Chicago Freedom School and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum in 2011.
The Fork: Touching the Ordinary
This comic, published in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (http://www.jcrae.org) is about my work as a volunteer in the prison, the death of my paternal grandmother, and the ways that both events changed my views of day to day life.
Can You Picture This: Activism and Public Engagement
This comic published by the Journal of Visual Arts Research (http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/var.html) in 2012 is about my work as an artist, activist, and academic and the way that comics became an important qualitative research tool in my work.
Black and Blue: Stories of Police Violence
This comic was published and distributed by Project NIA as part of an educational outreach project about police violence in Chicago. http://www.project-nia.org
Guts and Glory: The War Train that Shaped a Nation a collaboration with Kevin J. McNamara and the National Czech and Slovak Museum
Assata is Welcome Here
This double sided poster was created for a teach-in through Project NIA (http://www.project-nia.org) in Chicago after May 2, 2013, when the FBI added her to the Most Wanted Terrorist list and increased the reward for her capture from $1million to $2 million.
Little Village-Trading Cards for End times. This was part of the annual Comics version of Little Village just after #45 was elected.
Cover Image for “Land of Opportunity” by William Adler published by University of Michigan Press, 2021
