Welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll find selected writing that spans features, profiles, narrative, and opinion. I also include sample work in PR, communications, and artist development to showcase my creative storytelling and strategic content skills (coming soon). Each piece includes a brief summary + context.
Writing work
(Art) Against the Grain: Javiye Bentley on Emotion, Fluidity, and Letting Go Through Wood Sculptures
A reported profile of international woodworking artist Javiye Bentley, exploring how his materials, techniques, and creative process shape the meaning and impact of his work.
(Music) Reflecting on the Life of R&B Artist D’Angelo
A reflective profile that reclaims D’Angelo’s legacy beyond sensational imagery, tracing how his vulnerability and musical depth reshaped R&B and revealed the cost of being consumed as spectacle rather than art.
Rama Duwaji and the Collision of Middle Eastern Art, Culture and American Politics
A feature piece about artist Rama Duwaji, exploring how her work and public presence — particularly at the intersection of Middle Eastern cultural identity and American political life — challenge traditional First Lady roles and expand contemporary artistic discourse.
Rosalía’s ‘Berghain’ Gives Me Hope In Music Again.
A feature piece that situates Rosalía’s Berghain release within larger conversations about experimentation, global pop, and artistic evolution.
What Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs Collection Reveals About How We Connect To Black Identity
A feature/cultural criticism piece arguing that the reaction to Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs collection exposes deep tensions in how Black visibility, class, and aspirational belonging are understood — spotlighting the tension between homage and erasure in commercial narratives.
Thirty-Eight Years After Beloved, We’re Still Misreading Toni Morrison
A narrative/cultural criticism piece highlighting that contemporary misunderstandings of Toni Morrison’s Beloved reveal more about readers’ discomfort with confronting historical trauma and moral truth than about the novel’s complexity.
At a Bar After Midnight, a Stranger Told Me “Sinners” Wasn’t Real Horror. He Was Half Right.
A narrative piece using a late-night conversation about the film Sinners to explore how horror exposes the fears and moral conditioning we absorb from religion and culture, revealing the real terrors beneath the surface.
‘Black Dandyism’ at the 2025 Met Gala: A Missed Opportunity for Cultural Brilliance
An opinion piece arguing that the 2025 Met Gala’s “Black Dandyism” theme largely missed its radical potential, showing how high fashion often limits Black creative expression to surface aesthetics while obscuring the theme’s historical and cultural significance.
Re'Dreyona Shariah 