selected essays

American Culture

On housing justice in Detroit, The Guardian
On Standard Time, The Believer (an excerpt from Body Horror)
On the “date-rape” drug, The New Inquiry
On Charity Water, Truthout
On Milton Friedman, The New Inquiry
On PR and Marketing in the Olympic Games, Truthout
On Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games , Boston Phoenix

Comics, Books, Film, & Art

On reading Julie Doucet, Paris Review (an excerpt from Sweet Little Cunt)
An interview with A. S. Hamrah, The Chicago Reader
On Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, The Baffler
On Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built, Chicago Reader
On working in the comics industry (with Katharina Brandl), Closure #5
On film producer Harvey Weinstein and “rape culture”, The Baffler
On censorship, PEN America
An interview with Rithy Panh, Truthout
An interview with Leang Seckon, Truthout
On Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambat’s Enemies of the People, n + 1
An interview with Lynda Barry, The Rumpus

Media & Politics

On Vice, Fox, and women in media, The Baffler
On the “pink wave” of the 2018 midterm elections, The Baffler
A report from the 2008 Republican National Convention, Boston Phoenix

Women & Labor

On an uprising among Cambodian garment workers, Truthout
On models’ labor rights, Talking Points Memo
On anti-human trafficking activist Somaly Mam, Salon
A report on anti-human trafficking organizations I, Truthout
A report on anti-human trafficking organizations II, Truthout
On Nicholas Kristof, Milton Friedman and PBS, The Baffler
On race and imperialism in human trafficking coverage, Rewire
On mass faintings at Cambodian garment factories, Truthout
On a garment worker labor rights education campaign, Truthout
On intellectual property rights and the devaluation of women’s work, Jacobin
On copyright, Al Jazeera
A report from Cambodia’s garment factories, Truthout
On the legacy of women’s rights, The Rumpus