Who controls the story?
I write about how power shapes public memory—which histories get preserved, which get erased, and what it costs the people left out of the official record. My work moves between academic scholarship and public writing: women artists painting over the walls of Belfast; Michael Jackson and Palestine; and the colonial violence embedded in how we display and narrate animals.
The Work of Public Memory
My current co-authored book examines political murals in Belfast, Buenos Aires, and Chicago as sites of struggle over whose narratives survive in public space. Drawn from original fieldwork, artist interviews, and my own mural photography, it asks what happens when communities paint over the official story—and what rises in its place.
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