Libraries Research Communication and Equity Fellowship

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Collection containing academic and creative work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) graduate students. Each Fellow creates a physical artifact that visually communicates their research. These artifacts take many forms: posters, artwork, visualizations, etc. Students come from across the UW Seattle campus in programs from law to biology.

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Lemme Ribeiro Research Artifact
(2023) Lemme Ribeiro, Clara
In my research project Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Bolivian immigrants in São Paulo, Brazil, I studied how the ripple-effects of the pandemic affected this particular immigrant community. Most Bolivians in São Paulo live and work in home-based garment-industry sweatshops, where they have historically faced highly precarized labor and social reproduction conditions.During the pandemic, there was a significant drop in garment-industry production which led to a debasing of already exploitative working conditions, including a staggering drop in wages. Consequently, several São Paulo-based Bolivian families experienced evictions, homelessness, and hunger. Thus many Bolivians returned home early in the pandemic and, as they tried to re-enter Brazil later on, faced new politics of “sanitary” border control that increased cases of undocumentation. As a result, countless Bolivian immigrant families were pushed further into precarity.This research project was developed in collaboration with three local organizations that supported immigrant sweatshop workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: the Migrant Support Center, the Alinha Institute, and the Immigrant Women Association. It is also a result of my long-term deep engagement with these organizations and the Bolivian community in São Paulo. I volunteered as a Portuguese teacher and staff member at the Migrant Support Center for four years, in addition to working for a year at the Alinha Institute, where I supported sweatshop owners to improve health, safety and labor conditions. Presently, I am a board member at the Alinha Institute.I will present a poster as my artifact, in which I will combine descriptive text, quotes from qualitative interviews, and images that represent living and working conditions in São Paulo’s garment-industry sweatshops. Through this visual juxtaposition of textual and imagetic elements, I will re-create the emergent narrative of Bolivian immigrants during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, including their struggles and resilience.
Nguyễn Research Artifact
(2023-05-16) Nguyễn, Sarah
Bridging my previous experiences in libraries and archives and my current research to the Vietnamese diaspora, information disorder, memory and archival sciences, and dance/embodiment research, I am developing an intermedia piece that will represent an experimental test ground to engage with the Vietnamese diaspora to introduce the first steps on acknowledging and beginning to tell their intergenerational community building stories. This piece will incorporate archival familial photographs, interview footage, historical aerial maps, alongside social network graphs as artifacts that are inspired by a dance film I created in 2020, titled: 30x3 virgin remy: $200 OBO. The full booklet is available online.
Marcaida Research Artifact
(2024-05-09) Marcaida, Marielle Yambao
This virtual booklet popularizes and visualizes my research on the grassroots activism of mothers of drug war victims in the Philippines through a virtual booklet. While the Philippine drug war primarily targeted men in urban poor communities, women and their left-behind families suffered from the long-term consequences of state violence under former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. As the women struggle with grief, trauma, and physical and economic hardships while dealing with state neglect and impunity, they are compelled to organize and mobilize amongst themselves to protect their communities from the police and vigilante killings. In this project, I highlighted the grassroots initiative of a group of mothers in Pateros City, known as the Ronda ng Kababaihan (Patrol of Women), who began to voluntarily conduct night patrols in 2017 to enforce curfews and keep the streets free of potential targets of motorcycle-riding gunmen. Their motivation to protect their families from the killings has led them to serve as the protectors of their neighborhood, mobilizing beyond the threat of the drug war and serving as the partners of the police and the local government during the COVID-19 pandemic and in various community programs geared towards public service. In this booklet, I seek to narrate their story of resistance that would paint the picture of how—amidst a crisis of human rights—it takes a village led by mothers to protect every child's life.
White Research Artifact
(2024-05-09) White, Chenae
Throughout our history, us Black girls’ have fought to create spaces uniquely different and unorthodox but compatible to meeting our needs such as reimagining community and caretaking. Our work of reimagining has often been a form of resistance when facing inequity and exclusionary practices, especially within education settings. Despite the existence of creatively constructed barriers, we have successfully navigated harmful education settings. We also remain aware that these spaces were not built with our successes in mind.However, this poster illustrates a space built with us in mind, that considers our desires, needs, safety, care, and what we need to thrive. We need learning spaces that are intentional about protecting the being, existence, and safe navigation of Black girls. This poster of the gymnasium has been remodeled to fortify our development and unique existence. Creating an interpretation of the gymnasium (within a future reimagined school building) allows me to dream of different approaches to support the growth of Black girls in education settings that are tailored to prioritize incorporating our needs, center Black girlhood, and provide the support required to progress into Black womanhood.I chose to focus this poster on the gymnasium because the space is a common area, accessible to people of all backgrounds especially when considering the many identities of Black girls, and can be a gathering place for local community members that represent the student population. Gymnasiums are a space where people vote, have community meetings, participate in various competitions and over time have remained safe and affirming spaces for many communities and now for Black girls.In the background of the poster there are Black girls simply existing and being, announcements on the wall to remind students of ways that we are centering our school community around our own needs, and the image of a Fulani woman at center court. Looking forward we must focus on further conceptualizing how we will build spaces where Black girls can thrive.

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