https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/podcasts-radio daily 0.75 2024-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1612918848427-UNYD8HGPKKBGHZF1RJLV/Variations+on+a+theme+promo Podcasts + Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1612754921260-FXPPBR8XL95MQUJUTRM0/Roskilde+4.jpg Podcasts + Radio Roskilde Festival Radio, 2013 — photo: Dessane Lopez Cassell https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/contact-dessane daily 0.75 2024-02-06 https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/curatorial-projects daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758590743668-EELWY2U6CN2Y5IC46AXF/DSCF2870.jpg Curatorial Projects - A performance of Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap at Bartram's Garden Photo by Naomieh Jovin, courtesy BlackStar Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758591146150-0J1MY8JVEY0L9264JH0F/FWM_JM_0942_lo+res.jpg Curatorial Projects - Installation view, Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap at Bartram's Garden Photo by Carlos Avendaño, courtesy The Fabric Workshop and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758591145893-4GIU7M81QR9VQJE211YN/FWM_JM_0988_lo+res.jpg Curatorial Projects - A performance of Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap at Bartram's Garden Photo by Carlos Avendaño, courtesy The Fabric Workshop and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758591149507-IPF98Z4KZSNO37OYNXKN/FWM_JM_0934_lo+res.jpg Curatorial Projects - Installation detail, Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap at Bartram's Garden Photo by Carlos Avendaño, courtesy The Fabric Workshop and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758591151021-QCZ4F83L001F76EAIMZT/FWM_JM_0864_lo+res.jpg Curatorial Projects - Installation detail, Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap at Bartram's Garden Photo by Carlos Avendaño, courtesy The Fabric Workshop and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1758601900883-N1GCXUYHJORWUD33ALH6/VenusFlytrap_BTS_Photoby%253A%2BNaomieh%2BJovin38_lo%2Bres.jpg Curatorial Projects - BTS of Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap Photo by Naomieh Jovin, courtesy BlackStar Projects https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/a1ed7935-7599-44ba-8301-c551d226db52/Dessane+Cassell+Headshot+2026+%28Shareable%29-11.jpg About Photo: Rachell Morillo https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/home-margot daily 1.0 2021-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/1612737077623-NE4S9O4UEWT9JLW7044C/IMG_0452+2.jpg Home https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://www.dessanelopezcassell.com/editing daily 0.75 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/e6e10392-0975-4773-a462-963ec374a65c/2022_Blackstar_SEEN_Issue_4-10.jpeg Editing - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/b1ac79a5-0912-44d6-92d8-af1d30c46f0a/Black+Square+Get+Out+meme.webp Editing - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/c52917d3-48d8-4f9f-839d-6167ce68300f/IMG_7164.jpg Editing - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c97e1efc46f6d5394f2c99e/e74c541f-75b9-455d-a0ab-e08336f3b168/EIFF+From+Troubled+Dreams_Dimond+excerpt.jpg Editing - 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