Notes
Dr. Wilson is a Legal Scholar, Justice Advocate & Policy Expert with extensive expertise in Critical Race Theory, Black Political Thought, Black and LGBTQ Studies, Social Movements, Democratic Theory and Public Policy. As the visionary Founding Director of the Center for The Study of Black Life and The Law, led transformative policy reform initiatives and fostered deep community engagement. Adept in public speaking, legal writing, and advocacy, they are committed to democratizing legal and political knowledge and pioneering collaborative solutions with diverse stakeholders. They are committed to the sustenance of Black life. Below, you will find various articles and essays that demonstrate these values.
Select Scholarly Articles, Interventions & Chapters
Sexual Profiling & BlaQueer Furtivity: BlaQueers On The Run, The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice, 2022 (Selected by the Williams Institute at UCLA, to republished in its annual Dukeminier Awards Journal, while also being awarded the Ezekiel Webber Prize for Best Paper in sexual orientation and gender identity law).
Furtive blackness: On blackness and being, Hastings Const. LQ, 2020
The strict scrutiny of black and Blaqueer life,Hastings Const. LQ, 2020
Public Facing Essays
Ron DeSantis’s Florida is a dangerous and hostile place for Black Americans, The Guardian UK, 2023
Black History Is US History, Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers, 2022
We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body, 2018
“Thinking Blackly”: State violence, U.S. law, and legal death dealing, 2018
Black witnessing is an insistence on Black being: Re-membering those who were lynched, 2018
A Love Letter To My Fellow Empaths, 2017
Black, Gifted & Privileged: Confronting Intraracial Power In The Age of Trayvon, 2016
Free Bresha Meadows, And All Women & Femmes Who Must Kill To Live, 2016
The (R)Evolution Will Not Be Hashtagged, 2016
Racism As A Carry-on? Why I'll Never Fly With Southwest 2016
ARE BLAQUEERNESS AND MASCULINITY COMPATIBLE?, 2016
Why #BluesLivesMatter Is White Supremacy By Another Name, 2016
How Being Black & Queer Made Me Unapologetically Suicidal 2016
Black Flesh, Red Blood, White Law: The Criminalization of Black Sexualities, 2015