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(2024) “Before Stonewall: How Black lesbians threw rent parties to fuel the fight for queer liberation.” Queer Archives Series. Reckon News. June 28, 2024. Guest Writer.
(2024) “The radical joy of queer Asian community: A photo love letter.” Queer Archives Series. Reckon News. May 29, 2024. Guest Writer.
(2024) “Before Coachella, these 10 pioneering queer festivals changed the landscape.” Queer Archives Series. Reckon News. April 22, 2024. Guest Writer.
(2024) “Meet Mandy Carter: The legendary scientist of activism who fought for black and LGBTQ+ rights in the American South.” Queer Archives Series. Reckon News. March 28, 2024. Guest Writer.
(2024) “5 things you need to know about Salsa Soul Sisters, the 70s Black and Brown lesbians who paved the way.” Queer Archives Series. Reckon News. February 27, 2024. Guest Writer.
(2023) “On Celebrating Trust and Transfer of the Salsa Soul Sisters Archive.” In Magers, Susannah (Ed.) On Transfer, Sinister Wisdom (127): 15 -28. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64378. Invited Publication.
(2022) “Conditions Two: Response by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz; A Kind of Wistfulness: Reflecting on my Saturn Return.” In Cheryl Clarke, Julie Enszer, and Shromona Mandal (Eds.) A Tribute to Conditions, Sinister Wisdom (123): 118 -123. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64382. Invited Publication.
(2021) “Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory Edited by Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight.”(Eds.) [Book Review]. International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI): (5) 4.
(2021) “Archiving Black Lesbians in Practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection.” In Briona S. Jones, (Ed.), Mouths of Rain, the Companion Anthology to Words of Fire (1995). New York: The New Press. Forthcoming Feb 2021. Invited Publication.
(2021) “Help Wanted: Shaman Black Lesbian Archivist.” Exhibition response to Off Our Backs, curated by Meaghan Kent, Archeion: Journal of Queer Archives. Stonewall National Museum & Archives. (August 2021): 12-13.
(2020) Bakaitis, Elvis, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Red Washburn, eds. Forty-Five Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, (118). Edited Collection.
(2020) “What the Trees Said: Archiving a (Fictional) Black Lesbian Forest.” In Bakaitis, B., Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Red Washburn, eds. Forty Five Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Sinister Wisdom Journal, (118): 141-148.
(2020) Smith-Cruz, Shawn(ta) and Flavia Rando. “On Teaching Community Radically: In Conversation about the Lesbian Studies Institute at the Lesbian Herstory Archives.” In Bakaitis, B., Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Red Washburn, eds. Forty-Five Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Sinister Wisdom Journal, (118): 149-155.
(2019) “Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression, and Pain by Clelia O. Rodriguez” [Book Review]. Radical Teacher Journal, (115): 81-84, nov. 2019. ISSN 1941-0832. doi: https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2019.675.
(2019) “Archiving Black Lesbians in Practice: The Salsa Soul Sisters Archival Collection.” In A. Guess & P. Kanakamedala (Eds.), The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives. New York: The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Invited Publication.
(2018) “An Archival Mothering: We’re On: A June Jordan Reader by Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi” (Eds.) [Book review]. Mom Egg Review. Summer 2018. Invited Publication.
(2018). “A Blueprint on Self-Exploration to Justice: Introduction to ‘Referencing Audre Lorde’ & “Lesbian Librarianship for All.’” In K. Adler, I. Beilin, & E. Tewell (Eds.), Reference librarianship and justice. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.
(2018). “‘Lesbian Librarianship’ For All: A Manifesto.” In Ian Beilin, and Eamon Tewell (Eds.), Reference librarianship & justice: History, practice & praxis. Duluth: Library Juice Press.
(2018) “Referencing Audre Lorde.” In Ian Beilin, and Eamon Tewell (Eds.), Reference librarianship & justice: History, practice & praxis. Duluth: Library Juice Press.
(2018). “Along the Boardwalk.” Golden Mermaids, Sinister Wisdom, (111): 15 – 20.
(2018). “Dyke Hands and Dollar Vans.” Golden Mermaids, Sinister Wisdom, (111): 21 – 26.
(2018). “Weaning.” Mom Egg Review – MER VOX, Summer 2018.
(2018). “Black Lesbians in the 70s: How a Zine Marked Herstory.” In J.P. Howard & A. Atiya (Eds.), Black Lesbians – We are the Revolution, Sinister Wisdom, (107).
(2018). Salsa Soul Sisters [Zine]. New York, NY: Endless Editions; EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Gallery. Invited Publication.
Smith-Cruz, S., Thistlethwaite, P., Katz, S., & Poggiali, J. (2018). “OER support across CUNY.” [Web blog post]. CUNY University Faculty Senate Blog. Invited Publication.
(2017). “An Opening Closed to the Public: A Black Lesbian Separatist at Play.” Arkana, (2).
Daniels, J., Thistlethwaite, P., & Smith-Cruz, S. (2017). “Opening Education, Linking to Communities: The #InQ13 Collective’s Participatory Open Online Course (POOC) in East Harlem.” In E.M. Losh (Ed), MOOCs and their afterlives: Experiments in scale and access in higher education (198-212). Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press.
(2017). “Graphic Activism: Lesbian Archival Library Display.” In C. Smallwood & L. Sanborn (Eds.), Gender issues and the library: Case studies of innovative programs and resources. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
(2017). “Oral History with Jean Wimberly.” In S. Smith-Cruz, A. Washburn, A. Ricket, A. Martin, & B. Warriner (Eds.), Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Sinister Wisdom, (103).
(2017). “Oral History with Tara Shannon.” In S. Smith-Cruz, A. Washburn, A. Ricket, A. Martin, & B. Warriner (Eds.), Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Sinister Wisdom, (103).
(2017). “Stilt Walking in Hesperia (from Rice Pot Stories).” In S. Smith-Cruz, A. Washburn, A. Ricket, A. Martin, & B. Warriner (Eds.), Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Sinister Wisdom, (103).
The Editorial Collective: Smith-Cruz, Shawn(ta) D., Allison Ricket, Brynn Warriner, Angela Martin, and Amy Washburn, eds. (2017). Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Sinister Wisdom, (103).
(2017). Woman Energy: How our Lesbian Past Informs our Lesbian Future. Sinister Wisdom 50th Anniversary Series: Anticipating Sinister Wisdom’s Croning in 2026: Part 1 of 10. [Brochure]. Dover, FL: Sinister Wisdom. Invited Publication.
(2016). Digging Queer Art : Interview with Amanda Curreri. The Calmest of Us Would Be Lunatics [Exhibition Catalog]. Minnesota: Rochester Art Center. Invited Publication.
(2016). “Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Barnett.” [Book review]. Sinister Wisdom, (101): 98-100. Invited Publication.
(2016). “Performing Ourselves at the Center : Interview with Amanda Curreri.” Sinister Wisdom, (101): 22-25. Invited Publication.
Smith-Cruz, S., Rashid, I., Grant, C., Mapp, S. (2016). “She was Fierce! Audre Lorde and Salsa Soul Sisters: Transforming the Black Lesbian Community.” In Gloria I. Joseph (Ed.), The Wind is spirit: The life, love and legacy Of Audre Lorde. New York: Villarosa Media. Invited Publication
Smith, S., Flavia Rando, Rachel Corbman, Deborah Edel, Morgan Gwenwald, Joan Nestle, and Polly Thistlethwaite. (2016). “Getting from Then to Now : Sustaining the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a Lesbian Organization.” Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue : Lesbian Organizations and Organizing, 20(2), 213–233. Proxied Link. Peer Reviewed Publication
(2015). “Embedding a Librarian for Mapping the Futures of Higher Education.” [Web blog post]. Futures Initiative Blog. Invited Publication
(2015). “Tape by tape: Digital projects at the Lesbian Herstory Archives.” In Rachel Wexelbaum (Ed.), Queers Online: LGBT digital practices in libraries, archives, and museums. California: Litwin Books.
(2014). “Black Gay Genius Interview with Lisa C. Moore.” In S. Fullwood & C. Stephens (Eds.), Black gay genius: Joseph Beam and In the life. New York: Vintage Entity Press. Invited Publication.
Daniels, J., Gold, M. K., Anderson, S. M., Boy, J., Cahill, C., Gieseking, J. J., … Tucker, Z. (2014). “The InQ13 POOC : A participatory experiment in open, collaborative teaching and learning.” Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (JITP), (5), 1–40. Peer Reviewed Publication.
(2014). “Domini effect: An interview with Rachel Mattson.” Ozone Park Journal. New York: Queens College. Web. Invited Publication.
(2014). Louis Armstrong and his Women [Zine]. Louis Armstrong Writers-in-Residency, Queens College MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation and Louis Armstrong House Museum.
(2014). “Queer Housing Nacional : A Librarian’s Documentation of a Community-specific Resource.” In Melissa Morrone (Ed.), Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond. Duluth: Library Juice Press. Invited Publication.
(2014). Smith-Cruz, S., Thistlethwaite, P., & Daniels, J. “Open Scholarship for Open Education: Building the JustPublics@365 POOC.” Journal of Library Innovation, 5(2), 15–28. Peer Reviewed Publication.
(2013). Clements, A. & Rando, F. & Smith, S. “Living our Lives through their Words: Reflections on the Marathon Reading of Work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, November 17, 2012.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 34(2), 261-269. Univ. of Nebraska Press. Proxied Link. Peer Reviewed Publication.
(2010). Black Lesbians in the 70’s and Before: An at Home Tour at the Lesbian Herstory Archives [Zine]. Brooklyn, NY: Lesbian Herstory Archives.
(2010). “Videos in the Kitchen : The Lesbian Herstory Archives as a Moving-Herstorical-Image.” In D. Utroske, A. Beins, K. Alexander, J. A. Salthouse, & J. Hernandez (Issue Eds.) & K. O’Connor (Managing Ed.), Films for the feminist classroom, (Issue 2.s). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, Women’s and Gender Studies Dept. Web. Peer Reviewed Publication.
(2011). “Patricia’s Child, Patrick’s Penis & the Sex of Reference : A Lesbian Librarian’s Log of Perverse Patronage.” In T. Nectoux (Ed.), Out behind the desk: Workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians. Duluth: Library Juice Press. Proxied link.
(2004). “Even when Leaving the Ghetto.” In D, Anderson-Minshall & G. D. Vries (Eds.), Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris.
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