Check out my bi-weekly movie reviews for Silver Screen Radio on WTMD, 87.9.

Recent Press and Interviews:

February 16, 2023:  Mediated Misogynoir book talk at Towson University.

February 8, 2023: I was honored to be featured on We The People on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC.  Enjoy here.

October 2022 ESPN’s ANDSCAPE:  The Roundtable presents, “The History of Black Actors in Horror”.  Enjoy here.

October 2022 CNN: “How the filmmakers behind ‘Till’ depicted Black trauma without showing violence”. Read here.

Women’s Health Wisdom and Wine podcast with Dr. Laurena White, August 10, 2022.  Listen here.

Recent Academic Publications:

Young, K (2024). “Ignoring Women and Communities of Care:  Public Housing in HBO’s The Wire” in Cities in the Sky: Public Housing in Global Film and Media. Ed. Lorrie Palmer, New York: Bloomsbury. Available to purchase here.

Young, Kalima (2022). Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination, Lexington Books. Available to purchase here.

Young, K, Hailey, J, Arscott, J (2020). “In Between the Shade: Colorism and Its Impact on Black LGBTQ Communities” Colorism Then, Now, & Tomorrow: Redefining A Global Phenomenon, with Implications for Policy, Research, and Practice, Fielding University Press. Available to purchase here.

Young, K. (2019). “Roberto Lugo at 1 West.”  The Journal of Modern Craft, 12:3, 287-290. Check it out.

“We Will Survive: Race and Gender-Based Trauma as Cultural Truth-Telling.” Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays. Eds. April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, NC: McFarland Publishers (2016). Available to purchase here. 

“Emancipating the Past, Spectacularizing the Present: Kara Walker, Slavery and Representations of Cultural Trauma.”Powerlines Journal, 3.1 (2015). Check it out.

“Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and the March on Washington (1963)” Powerlines Journal 2.1 (2014). Check it out.

Recent Essays:
Young, K, Kim, Shari (2020). “Understanding and Engaging with Violent Viral Videos”, The Pennsylvania Psychologist, September, Vol 81: 5.

Young, K. (2018). “Musings on a World Without Rape: A Listicle”. RaceBaitr.com. RaceBaitr. October 3, 2018. Check it out.