I approach writing with the goal of activating an unexpected possibility. In remaining with fragmentary debris and refusing to look away, how can I bring a different world into view?

In addition to shorter essays and journal articles, I am currently at work on two book projects.

Academic Scholarship

  • (forthcoming) Ridgway, Morgan L. 2024. “Compulsory Etiquette: Emotionality and the Constraints of Urban Indigenous Life.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 52: 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2024)

    (accepted, in progress toward press) Ridgway, Morgan L. “Exit Routes: Erasure in/as the Archive of Indigenous Life” Jenny L. Davis and Antoinette Burton, eds.

  • Ridgway, Morgan L. (2021) “Lenape Voices Lead the Path Toward Survival: Past, Present, and Future” Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC) Magazine

     Ridgway, Morgan L. (neé Green) Catalogue Now!: Professional Anthropology and Making the Northeast United States.” The Blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas (2019)

    Book Review. The Committee on LGBT History Newsletter. Butch Queen Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013) by Marlon M. Bailey. (2016)

Poetry

One is a lyric memoir that is a meditation on Black-Native life, colonial grief, and the desire for otherwise.

The other is a scholarly monograph that examines multitribal organizing in Philadelphia in the late 20th century as an affective practice that emboldens Native life and momentarily disrupts the politics of recognition.

Select publications written for a range of audiences across a variety of genres

PRINT:

“The River Line Stop On East Broad Street” & “Backroads” Olney Magazine

ONLINE:

“Rutters and Fishing Line”, “The boundary between nostalgia and forgiveness is desire” &

“The other day I thought I saw you in line at the grocery store” - diode poetry journal

 “The Tree Is A Network Of Fungi” Mudroom Magazine

“House Call” Hooligan Magazine – Spilled Ink

“Stone Fruit City” Hooligan Magazine – Spilled Ink

“Triangles and Other Polygons” Rabbit & Rose

“Runoff Is The Sound Of Closure” Indigo Literary Magazine [Pushcart Nominee]

“As Much As We Do Ourselves” Horse Egg Literary

“At My College They Call It Swooping” CP Quarterly

“What’s Your Pleasure” Querencia

“Replica” The Salacious Zine by The Estuary Collective

“Exhalation” The Salacious Zine by The Estuary Collective

“Still Life” Cabaret - A Contributors Journal

“I want to tell you about the river” Cabaret - A Contributors Journal