Writing Portfolio
Profiles
Arushi Jain’s Hard Earned Joy - The Amp, April 2024
Tell Us a Story, Sheherazaad - SPIN, March 2024
The Singular Voice of Asha Puthli - Bandcamp, October 2023
R&B Experimentalist Liv.e Sings Through the Bullshit - Pitchfork, February 2023
Ami Dang Channels Rage and Dismay Into a Call to Mobilize - The Amp, November 2022
Sirintip Transforms Climate Science and Her Thai Swedish Heritage Into Stunning Pop Music - The Amp, November 2022
Rina Sawayama, Pop Therapist - Pitchfork, August 2022
Get to Know Arooj Aftab, the Defiant Singer Who’s Reimagining Traditional South Asian Music for Today - Pitchfork, May 2021
Cassandra Jenkins’ Hypnotic Folk Music Turns Everyday Moments Into Monuments - Pitchfork, March 2021
KeiyaA’s Divine Soul - Pitchfork, July 2020
Meet duendita, a Spiritual Soul Singer Who Worships at the Altar of Self-Love - Pitchfork, March 2019
Cover Stories
Mija’s Hardgroove Summer - SPIN, July 2024
Family Portrait: Rina Sawayama - DIY Mag, February 2020
Seeing Red: Zendaya to the Extreme - PAPER Magazine, June 2019
Paris Hilton Interviews Kim Petras - PAPER Magazine, June 2018
Album Reviews
Darkside, Nothing - Resident Advisor, February 2025
Leo Bhanji, Shell EP - Pitchfork, December 2024
Half Waif, See You at the Maypole - Pitchfork, October 2023
Abida Parveen, Raqs-e-Bismil - Pitchfork, July 2024
Arooj Aftab, Night Reign - SPIN, May 2023
Bolis Pupul, Letters To Yu - SPIN, March 2024
Fears, affinity - Bandcamp Daily, March 2023
Priya Ragu, Santhosam - Pitchfork, November 2023
Meernaa, So Far So Good - Pitchfork, October 2023
Cleo Sol, Heaven - Pitchfork, September 2023
Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) - Pitchfork, July 2023
Kelela, Raven - NPR, February 2023
Arima Ederra, An Orange Colored Day - Pitchfork, November 2022
Ustad Noor Bakhsh, Jingul - Pitchfork, September 2022
Asha Puthli, The Essential Asha Puthli - Pitchfork, July 2022
On Asha's Awakening, Raveena finds clarity in the cosmos - NPR, February 2022
Riad Awwad / Hanan Awwad / Mahmoud Darwish, The Intifada 1987 - Pitchfork, January 2022
Snoh Aalegra, TEMPORARY HIGHS IN THE VIOLET SKIES - Pitchfork, July 2021
A. R. Rahman, Bombay - Pitchfork, June 2021
CHAI, WINK - Pitchfork, May 2021
Maassai, With the Shifts - Pitchfork, February 2021
Phoebe Bridgers, Copycat Killer EP - Pitchfork, November 2020
Ami Dang, Meditations Mixtape, Vol. 1 - Pitchfork, June 2020
Half Waif, The Caretaker - Pitchfork, April 2020
TOKiMONSTA, Oasis Nocturno - Pitchfork, March 2020
Taylor Swift, 1989 - Pitchfork, August 2019
Jay Som, Anak Ko - Pitchfork, August 2019
Bedouine, Bird Songs of a Killjoy - Pitchfork, July 2019
Otoboke Beaver, Itekoma Hits - Pitchfork, April 2019
Track Reviews
Blurbs
“Life Is” - Jessica Pratt, for Pitchfork’s Song of the Summer list
Radishes with butter…being over your ex…and more, for Dirt’s 2024 Overrated list
“Wild Animals” - Liv.e, for Pitchfork’s Best Songs of the 2020s So Far list
KeiyaA, Jazmine Sullivan, Yaya Bey, for Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the 2020s So Far List
Music Reporting, Features, & Interviews
Liam Payne's death marks the end of an era for an entire generation of online fans - MSNBC, October 2024
Please, please, please let Sabrina Carpenter be unserious - MSNBC, June 2024
Zsela is Screaming With Main Character Energy - SPIN, June 2024
Gracie Abrams Tells Us About Her Secret - SPIN, May 2024
FLETCHER Sets a Match and Stares Into the Flames - SPIN, March 2024
This New Delhi Shop Features Rare Vinyl — and Cakes - SPIN, March 2024
The Mastery of Taylor Swift’s Re-Recordings - Chartmetric, February 2024
How Ali Sethi Went From Making One of the Biggest Songs on Earth to a Collaborative Album With Nicolás Jaar - Pitchfork, October 2023
“Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja,” the Bollywood Disco Track That Never Dies - The Juggernaut, June 2022
DIY or Pie: How a DIY Venue in DC is Staying Alive by Serving Pie to Punks - Cake Zine, May 2023
What Pioneering Gen Z Congressman-Elect Maxwell Frost Is Listening To - Pitchfork, November, 2022
6 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album Midnights - Pitchfork, October 2022
Remembering Bollywood Music Legend Lata Mangeshkar With 5 Essential Tracks - Pitchfork, February 2022
Jay Som and Palehound on Their New Band Bachelor and Friendship at First Sight - Pitchfork, April 2021
Welcome to Discostan - Pitchfork, October 2020
How a Long-Lost Indian Disco Record Won Over Crate Diggers and Cracked the YouTube Algorithm - Pitchfork, January 2020
On Loving Taylor Swift While Being Brown - Pitchfork, November 2017
Interpreting Hip-Hop for the Deaf Is More Complicated Than You Think - Pitchfork, August 2017
Culture Writing
I Was…But You Were..: Revisiting Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey 10 years after its release - LA Review of Books, February 2025
Indian Pizza Is Extremely Online- TASTE, January 2025
Dynaco’s Dynamic Cake Baker - Cake Zine, October 2024
Why Don’t Children of Immigrants Hear Their Parents’ Accents? - The Juggernaut, October 2023
When Love Sits Between Us - Fringe of Colour Films, June 2023
I Think About This a Lot: When Justin Bieber Got Pink Eye - The Cut, February 2021
Interview: Sandra Oh's Emmy Nomination Is For All Asian-Americans - Paper Magazine, August 2018
The Only Thing That Can Silence Conflict is Cricket - Paper Magazine, June 2018
A Cornell Frat Held A Disgusting 'Pig Roast' Sex Contest And I'm Not Surprised - HuffPost, February 2018
Durga Chew-Bose: “Writing Affords Me a Space to Have Contradictions” - Lit Hub, April, 2017
Why Do All the Snapchat Filters Try to Make You Look White? - Complex, June 2016
News
Spin Magazine, assorted articles, 2018
Billboard, 2018
The Independent, assorted articles, 2017
Refinery29 - assorted articles, 2016
