Poetry & Prose

Prose: We Need More Fugitives: Radical Black feminist thoughtfeelings & propaganda on Abolition, Black queer feminist dharma , and supine possibilities

Prose: Crafting Freedom on Sojourner Truth’s abolitionist craft legacy

Prose: Happy Birthday Alice Walker

Poems : One of four women walking down Peachtree Street licking herself and Home is a mouth full of spit for your broken heart 

Review: Southern Abolition in the [b]reach with kai lumumba barrow and gallery of the streets*

Poem: 72 towards Hilltop *

Interview: In Conversation with Jasmine Gibson *

“rememory” in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 Black Girl Magic, Haymarket Books

Academic Publications

2025              

Imhotep, Ra Malika. "Tar Baby Principle Experiment 0.2: sassy az’a jay bird, or black femme–a haptic failure to define." Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory (2025): 1-6.

Imhotep, Ra Malika. “ The Tar Baby Principle | Experiment 0.1 – A Trickster’s Silence” in Sex on Stage Bloomsbury

2024

Imhotep, Ra Malika. “ Mama’s Marvelous Tar Baby: Rearticulating Black femininity, performance, and the Black vernacular tradition through Spillerian ecdysis” in The Flesh of The Matter : The Impact Hortense Spillers Vanderbilt Press (Fall 2024)

Imhotep, Ra Malika. "The Hermit-Woman takes a lover: Quiet-Crazy Intimacies in/with the Poetry of Gayl Jones." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 13, no. 2 (2024): 75-83.

2022               

Imhotep, Ra Malika “being-in-blackfeminineflesh: Towards an Embodied Veneration of BeTTy BuTT's Inexhaustible Pleasures” TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 67, Number 3, Fall 2022

Imhotep, Ra Malika. gossypiin. Los Angeles : Red Hen Press (Spring 2022).

2020       

 Ra Malika Imhotep, SJ Zhang & C. Riley Snorton (2020) “Hell You Talmbout?” Sighting confusion in the performance of Black Revolt, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory

Imhotep, Ra Malika. “On Retrieval: Kenyatta AC Hinkle’s Black Feminist Spell.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 32, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2020).

2019

 Imhotep, Ra Malika, "Tar Baby: The Performance of Object" (2019). Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays. 20. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/ballinst_catalogues/20

IMHOTEP, MALIKA. “#OnFleek: Authorship, Interpellation, and the Black Femme Prowess of Black Twitter.” #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation, edited by Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, University of Michigan Press, 2019, pp. 39–56, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvndv9md.6.

"#OnFleek: Authorship, Interpellation and the Black Femme Prowess of Black Twitter" in #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. University of Michigan Press (2019)