Select Editing Projects
Seen journal
A journal of film, art, and visual culture from the global majority. Published in print, twice per year, and online by BlackStar Projects.
As Guest Editor (issue 002) and eventually Editor-in-Chief of Seen (issues 004, 005, 006), I commissioned nuanced, rigorous writing by and about people of color, including:
Cauleen Smith in Her Own Words
Dreaming of a Postcolonial Video Game by Kambole Campbell
Amaza Lee Meredith and the Art of Leisure by Jasmine Weber
The Loneliness of Black Genius by Beandrea July
Jordan Peele Is Reframing the Act of Looking by Kelli Weston
Standing on the Corner’s Divine Interventions by Isabel Ling
Life is But Missy Elliott’s Dream by Clarkisha Kent
What Insecure Gave Us by Zeba Blay
For Trayvon, For Tupac, and Their Mothers by Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Emma Amos, They Weren’t Ready for You by Rachell Morillo
Hyperallergic
As Reviews Editor (2019-2021), I commissioned playful and incisive art, film, and cultural criticism with an emphasis on platforming underrepresented writers, including
The Bulldozing Effect of the Black Square by Lauren Lluveras
Marches Can Only Come and Go: The Reality of Dread Scott’s “Slave Rebellion” by William C. Anderson
The Anti-capitalist Candor of Alice Neel by Daniel Larkin
Precious Okoyomon Envelops Us in the Textures of Black Mourning by Zoë Hopkins
Gerhard Richter’s Slippery Mystique by Billie Anania
Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back by Eliza Levinson
Kia LaBeija Shelters a Queer, Black Femme Story of Collective Liberation by Rachell Morillo
opacity
The 2021 Flaherty Seminar Catalogue, programmed by Janaína Oliveira, co-edited by Carol Almeida and Dessane Lopez Cassell. Designed by Darwin Marinho, Rid, and Ella Monstra of Carnaval no Inferno collective.
Featuring essays by Janaína Oliveira, Tina Campt, Tatiana Carvalho Costa, and Amaranta César, and interviews with Grace Passô by Christopher Harris, and Athi-Patra Ruga by Yeelen Cohen.
Billingual: English/Portuguese, 231 pages.
From troubled dreams under a glare of sky
New Perspectives from Film Writers in Scotland. Edited by Michael Pattison, produced by Tomiwa Folorunso, designed by Philip Morrell. Contributing edits (Dimond, Akilade, Morgan) by Dessane Lopez Cassell
Featuring writing by Zebib K. Abraham, Eilidh Akilade, Anahit Behrooz, Harvey Dimond, Katie Goh, Caitlin Merrett King, Kate Morgan, Xuanlin Tham, Jessica Widner. Published by Edinburgh International Film Festival