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Journal Special Issues:

• “All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Routledge (Volume 24:1) 2014.
• “The Queerness of Hip Hop/The Hip Hop of Queerness,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013.