[4] Forster has contributed to various print and digital publications, including Canada's National Observer[5] and City & State, primarily writing about culture and economic affairs.
[9] In the aftermath of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, while reporting on pro-Palestine demonstrations in Montreal, Forster published video footage that became the centre of controversy in the Canadian media.
[15] The American Spectator praised Americosis for its creative ambition, noting that "like the documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Forster possesses a kind of cinema verité style for his subject.
Forster cited the work of prominent civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. ally John Howard Griffin, who wrote a similar book titled Black Like Me, as literary inspiration.
[20] Black Like Me is widely regarded as one of the most important literary contributions of the Civil Rights movement, with Griffin receiving overwhelming praise for his journalistic efforts to expose the realities of the Jim Crow South to American whites.