[3] In 2007, Duke University Press published Keeling's first book, The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense.
In this book, Keeling argues that the cinema's ability to structure social reality, thus producing and reifying racism, homophobia, and misogyny, can be disrupted by the figure of the black femme.
[4] Kara Keeling has also written influential articles such as "Looking for M-: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future," published in GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies in 2009 and "Queer OS" published in Cinema Journal in 2014.
"Hir disappearance must prompt us to ask not the policing question attuned to the temporal and spatial logics of surveillance and control (where is M—today), but, rather, in this case, the political question of when M —’s visibility will enable hir survival by providing the protection the realm of the visible affords those whose existence is valued, those we want to look for so we can look out for and look after them" (577).
Keeling clearly addresses the fact that the ways in which society functions in the temporal and spatial might not always be ideal for those labeled as the "Other," such as M-.