Naila Keleta Mae
"Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women" in Theatre Research in Canada, 39 (1), 227-241
For close to two decades Trey Anthony has carved out a successful career as a published and produced playwright in Canada in a national theatre landscape where few playwrights enjoy sustained success. This is, in part, because Anthony is also an entrepreneur who identified Black women in Canada as a financially viable and lucrative target […]
"Black Lives Matter Toronto Sit-In at PRIDE" in Until We're Free: Black Lives Matter in Canada, 263-275.
Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more.
"Black girl thought in the work of Ntozake Shange" in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12 (2), 32-47
In this article I examine the performances of black girlhood in two texts by Ntozake Shange—the choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” (1977) and the novel Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo (1982). The black girls whom Shange portrays navigate anti-black racism in their communities, domestic violence in their homes, […]