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PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Book Chapters

2024. “Charles Mills’s “Black Trash”: Reproducing Race, Pig Waste, and Ecological
Resistance.” Critical Philosophy of Race; 12 (2): 261–291.

 “Sylvia Wynter’s Challenging Caribbean Critique” in Creolizing Critical Theory (edited by
Kris F. Sealey and Benjamin P. Davis). Rowman & Littlefield.

2022. Opperman, Romy. "The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice: A Case of
Haunting Ecology and Eco-Deconstruction." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 22 no. 1,
2022, p. 59-93.

Racism and the Planet.” The Philosopher. Winter 2022, Vol.110, No.1. 48-52
2019. “A Permanent Struggle Against an Omnipresent Death: Revisiting Environmental
Racism with Frantz Fanon,” Critical Philosophy of Race, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2019, pp.57-80

Essays and Public Writing

2024 "Repairing the World: Romy Opperman interviews Esther Stanford-Xosei," OPP
(Oxford Public Philosophy)

"Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism," Blog of the APA (the American Philosophical
Association), November 1st 2023

2023. “Decolonial Ecologies,” Malcom Ferdinand with Romy Opperman in What Matters
Most: Conversations on the Art of Living, edited by Anthony Morgan, Agenda Publishing,
Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023

2021. “We Need Histories of Radical Black Ecology Now,” March: A Journal of Art &
Strategy. 02: Black Ecologies. October
2020. “Haunting and Hosting,” Blog of Gender and its Discontents, Gender and Sexuality
Studies Institute, TNS

--. “We Need Histories of Radical Black Ecology Now,” Black Perspectives: African
American Intellectual History Society.
2016. “Born in Flames and the No Future of Afrofuturism,” Another Gaze: A Feminist Film
Journal.

Forthcoming & Works in Progress

Groundings: Black Ecologies of Freedom – (Book manuscript in preparation)

“Protocols for a Grounding Philosophy,” As for Protocols, Vera List Center for Art and
Politics (VLC) / Amherst College Press