Kaila Philo

Kaila Philo https://kailaphilo.com Kaila Philo Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:30:03 +0000 https://kailaphilo.com en Home https://kailaphilo.com/Home Sun, 07 Jul 2019 21:25:34 +0000 Kaila Philo https://kailaphilo.com/Home User:   Do you have eyes? AI:     What do you think? User:   No. AI:     You're right. I'm not a woman. About https://kailaphilo.com/About Sun, 07 Jul 2019 21:36:21 +0000 Kaila Philo https://kailaphilo.com/About <img width="2447" height="2710" width_o="2447" height_o="2710" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a925b13ba7d046dc472591c26e697c187343e4ccbb47feb93718dc911ab31ca5/IMG_7838.jpeg" data-mid="182070890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a925b13ba7d046dc472591c26e697c187343e4ccbb47feb93718dc911ab31ca5/IMG_7838.jpeg" /> Kaila Philo is a writer based in Washington, D.C., focusing on race, law, policy, history and culture. She currently works as a research assistant with the Howard University Institute for Advanced Studies.Her writing has been published in Talking Points Memo, POLITICO, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Washingtonian Magazine, Vice News, The Appeal, Jewish Currents, The Baffler, The Fader, and more. She’s been chosen as a 2025 Action Fund Fellow for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Fund. Previously, she took part in the Maynard Institute For Journalism Education’s fellowship program on the Investigative Storytellers track, as well as the Periplus Collective’s inaugural fellowship class, where she was mentored by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo. In her free time, she teaches Vinyasa yoga at Yoga District and serves on the executive board of the Petworth Community Market, one of the only volunteer-run farmers markets in D.C. ︎︎︎ Writing https://kailaphilo.com/Writing Sun, 07 Jul 2019 21:38:38 +0000 Kaila Philo https://kailaphilo.com/Writing Selected Writing Book Reviews The Baffler: We Owe Each Other Everything: The long arc of Black utopianism (December 2024) Big Bad Wolf: Review of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger (October 2023) Jewish Currents: What went wrong with identity politics? (June 2018) The New Republic: The Internet supercharged the exploitation of Black culture (June 2024) Cultural Criticism Balls and Strikes: John Roberts doesn’t understand how racism works (July 2023) Slate: Who Donald Trump was really speaking to with his vile comments on Kamala Harris’ Blackness (August 2024) Washington Monthly: How Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh weaponized their allegations (September 2018) EssaysThe Baffler: Plight of the Squeegee Kids: How Baltimore’s youth became pawns in a racist culture war (July 2019) No Breakthrough in Sight: Washington, D.C., and the long life of housing segregation (May 2023) Features Courthouse News Service: Congressman’s Post-Riot Suit Could Dismantle Hate Groups (February 2021) How reparations went from the fringe to the headlines (May 2021) Politico: How the nation’s most punitive state for ex-felons expanded voting rights, for now (January 2021) Proximate: What’s next for DAF reform? (December 2023) Not Waiting Around: The Foundations Transforming DAFs from within (August 2024) Saving Places: 6 Iconic Sites that Celebrate Black LGBTQ+ History (June 2025) A Search for Ancestors Sheds New Light on Pierce Chapel African Cemetery (July 2025) Exploring the Chesapeake Bay’s Unsung Black History (August 2025) Smithsonian: How do you rest in a culture of overwork? (June 2024) The vast geographic scope of slavery is hard to fathom. One groundbreaking exhibition shows its true scale around the globe. (January 2025) From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American women have long told their stories through quilts. (February 2025) Talking Points Memo: How a rural California county became a petri dish for the Big Lie (April 2023) Washington City Paper: Double Exposure Film Festival trains its eye on Russia (October 2022)Interviews Capital Bop: Cecily taps the healing power of joy on ‘Awakening Pt. II’ (September 2024) The Fader: How artist Jacolby Satterwhite contributed to Solange’s When I Get Home film (March 2019) Gen F: Nino Paid’s lived-in pain rap (March 2025) The New Republic: The Caribbean immigrants who transformed Britain (June 2018) Noam Chomsky does not think the planet is doomed (yet) (October 2020) InvestigationsThe Appeal: How Florida’s sluggish voter registration process sent ex-prisoners back to jail (October 2023) Bolts Mag: “An issue no one can see”: Watchdogs fault D.C. for ongoing solitary confinement  (February 2024) Media Matters For America: A Texas assistant attorney general is a QAnon conspiracy theorist who tweets out violent threats and bigoted remarks (September 2020) Talking Points Memo: A legal filing sheds some light on what may have happened to all those Jan. 6 text messages (August 2022) How a conspiracy-theorizing documentary fueled a wave of voter intimidation in Arizona (October 2022) Contact https://kailaphilo.com/Contact Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:30:03 +0000 Kaila Philo https://kailaphilo.com/Contact Contact For inquiries and commissions, please reach out to: kaila.a.philo@gmail.com For access to more of my clips, visit my portfolio: https://muckrack.com/kaila-philo  Instagram: @kailanthropy Bluesky: @kailanthropy.bsky.social