Writings & Media

Public Writing

“Acid Church: A Queer Psychedelic Ramble Through the Crescent City.” Stranger’s Guide, 2022.

“Fierce Love: On Sex, Ecology, and Climate Change with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens.” Stranger’s Guide, 2021.

“Finding Peace within the Hustle: The Radical Art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Her Experimental Treehouse.” The Stranger’s Guide. Print edition only.

“My Father’s Land.” The Best American Travel Writing 2020. Ed. Robert MacFarlane. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Morris, Courtney Desiree. "Unexpected Uprising: The Crisis of Democracy in Nicaragua." NACLA. May 14, 2018.

“Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements.” Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation, eds. Jessica Hoffman, Daria Yudacufski. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2018.

Courtney Desiree Morris and Jennifer Goett. “Nicaragua’s Authoritarian Turn is Not a Product of Leftist Politics.” NACLA. September 16, 2016. 

"What the Ground Remembers." Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism. March 5, 2014.

Morris, Courtney Desiree. “Anger Cannot Heal Us.” make/shift: feminisms in motion. No. 9. Spring/Summer. 18-19, 2011.

Morris, Courtney Desiree. “Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence Enables State Violence in Radical Movements.” make/shift: feminisms in motion. No. 7. Spring/Summer. 18-21, 2010.

“Becoming Oya.” Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academics, and the Austin Project, eds. Joni Jones, Lisa Moore, Sharon Bridgforth. Austin: University of Texas Press. 124-130, 2010.

Scholarly articles + Book chapters

“Seeing Stories Beneath the Surface.” NACLA 53(3): 281-287, 2021.

“Habla Lamadre.” black One shot series. ASAP Journal. 14(5), 2020.

“Ortega Faces a New Nicaraguan Opposition Movement.” Current History 118(805): 62-67, 2019.

“Creole Women’s Erotic Performance in Nicaragua.” In Aimee Meredith Cox, ed., Gender: Space. Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender Series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 225-238, 2018.

“For Black Boys Who Look Blue”: #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Week 29. Anthropoliteia, 2017.

“Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color. 4(2): 171-195, 2016.

“Toward a Geography of Solidarity: Afro-Nicaraguan Women’s Land Activism and Autonomy in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region.” The Bulletin of Latin American Research. 35(3): 355-369, 2016.

“Where it Hurts: 2014 Public Anthropology Year in Review.” American Anthropologist. 117(3): 540-552, 2015.

“Pensar el feminismo afronicaragüense.” Política e identidad: Afrodescendientes en México y América Central, ed. Odile Hoffman. D.F., México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. 233-269, 2010.

Howard, Angela, Corinne Reczek, Courtney Desiree Morris. “Editors’ Note: (The) Future (of) Feminisms.” Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines. Vol. 5. viii-ix, 2007.

Writings about my work

Leenah Najeiah Bassouni, Artists as First Responders: Lessons from Artists Against Genocide. KALW. March 20, 2024.

Juan Velasco, “Arte y antropología contra la crisis ecosocial: “Somos refugiados climáticos y eso va a ser lo normal.” Cordopolis. May 14, 2023.

Elaine Velie, Artist Honors Unhoused Woman Hosed Down by SF Dealer. Hyperallergic. January 13, 2023.

Heather Davis, Plastic Media. e-flux #126. April 2022.

Lou Fancher. “Finding Place, Holding Court: Life after death with Courtney Desiree Morris.” East Bay Express. December 16, 2020.

Matthew Harrison Tedford. “At YBCA, Art is a Powerful Tool for Envisioning a Less Complacent Future.” KQED. November 18, 2020.

Heather Davis. On the Earth: ‘Soil’ by Courtney Desiree Morris. Theo Westenberger Estate. July 2017.