A selection of published research, public scholarship, and works-in-progress

WRITING

Monograph

After Dark: Sexual Ecologies of North-Northeast Brazil

Following several performance collectives and independent artists throughout the North-Northeast region of Brazil, After Dark analyzes creative embodiments that upend colonial logics. The project traces the artists’ search for sustainable, liberatory relations with one another, urban environments, and other-than-human beings. By documenting resonances in regional linguistic, visual, and movement repertoires, After Dark offers new vocabularies for pleasure, intimacy, and relation stemming from Black : Indigenous expressions of bodily autonomy.

Photo by Adeloyá OjúBará (2016)

Davis, Khyree, Suzanne Nimoh, and Joshua K. Reason. “Black Geographies.” How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography: Theory, Praxis, and Shaping our Future, edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, pp. 60-73.

Reason, Joshua K. "Blackness, Polyamory, and Rural Sexualities in The City of the Future." The Black Scholar 53, no. 3-4 (2023): 51-62.

Reason, Joshua K. "The Queer Visuality of Slavery and its Afterlives." Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 7, no. 2 (2020): 55-74.​

Reason, Joshua K. "Done with these Niggas: Revenge Fantasies and Black Female Sexuality." Journal of American Culture 42, no. 1, (2019): 37-48.


Selected Publications

Public Scholarship

Reason, Joshua K. “Diasporic Dreamscapes in American Gurl: home–land at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” Variable West, 18 Jun. 2025.

Reason, Joshua K. “Xir.” touching:blackstudy, edited by becoming undisciplined collective, University of California Santa Barbara, 2022, pp. 27-30.

Reason, Joshua K. “The Future of Ismael: Performing Queer and Trans POC Futures.” QT Voices, 17 Apr. 2020.

Reason, Joshua K. “Desire & Transnational Solidarity within the Black Queer Diaspora.” becoming undisciplined: a zine, edited by becoming undisciplined collective, University of California Santa Barbara, 2019, pp. 29-32.

Reason, Joshua K. “Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st Century Brazil.” LLILAS-Benson Magazine, 20 Aug. 2019

"NuCuSPod #15 Joshua Reason" NuCusPOD from Núcleo de pesquisa e extensão em Culturas, Gêneros e Sexualidades, 8 Aug. 2019.