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Oh! Silly white Women: I was a monument to the patriarchy
(2021-08)Stereotypes around femininity presented to young Women have historically not been inclusive often consisting of single-story one-dimensional white ideals of femininity. Young Women could lean into the stereotype or turn ... -
Voicing Otherwise: Archival Vocality//Unsettling the Listening Body
(2021-08)Voice has typically been understood as an external representation of an internal uniqueness or individuality, often at the expense of the recognition of its always already relational, multi-sensory, and multi-sitedness. ... -
Words and Weapons: The RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ’s Formula for Reclaiming the Power of Language
(2021-08)This project explores the history and power of language in relation to graffiti writer Rammellzee’s philosophy of Ikonoklast Panzerism as well as to his art. Using informal interviews, ethnographic engagement, and close ... -
Storying: A Monument of Resilience and Decolonial Healing
(2021-08)This project explores the impact of migration on personal and familial relationships, through the process of storytelling. Focusing on my family’s migration story from Uzbekistan to the U.S., I explore themes of intergenerational ... -
Looking as Political Act: The Oppositional Gaze in Cinematic Realism
(2021-08)Within the ethnographies, memories, and archives produced throughout a capitalist empire, the ‘gaze’ has generally been used against the subject, creating narratives which entrench the hegemony in defining the subject to ... -
Reckoning with Ragnarok: Critique and Reinterpretation in Marvel’s Thor Franchise
(2021-08)As media conglomerates continue to grow and subsume smaller artists and studios, attending to the types of narratives they are producing and how those narratives serve or complicate the aims of the overall corporation ... -
Memory Made Material: Unearthing the Histories of Monumental Matter
(2021-08)This narrative web experience invites readers to rethink their own relationships with the material world. The piece frames materials within Western monumental structures — namely the marble pedestal, the bronze figure, and ... -
Written Into History? Solastalgia and Emotion Under the Western Gaze
(2021-08)In 2003, after witnessing strong emotional distress in populations near new open-pit mining projects, environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the environmental neologism solastalgia to refer to “the pain or sickness ... -
"Don’t Mythologize Me": Monumentalization and Refusal in Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years, 1984-1992
(2021-08)"In the spring of 1984, I spent three months in Berlin conducting a course in Black american [sic] women poets and a poetry workshop in English for German students. One of my aims for this trip was to meet Black German ... -
Healing Through Art An Examination of the Intersection of the Queer and Disabled Communities
(2021-08)Individuals identifying as both ‘queer’ and ‘disabled’ are presented with unique challenges when interacting with support systems of family, community, institutions, and biomedicine. For queer-disabled people, the act of ... -
All the World’s On Stage?: Metatheatrical Presence of Indigenous Absence in Public Works’ As You Like It
(2021-08)Public Works is a program of the Seattle Repertory Theatre that annually produces works of community-based theater in the effort to create “theater of, by, and for the people” built upon ostensibly anti-colonial practices. ... -
For the US to Live the Wolf Must Die: Extermination in the Southwest from 1880-1930
(2021-08)The United States established itself as a cohesive and internally policed nation-state through a process of exclusion through border making and racialized violence. Above all, the construction and regimentation of the state ... -
Rabies Pride: Queer Micro Communities on the Internet as Sites of Liberation
(2021-08)In 2017, Tumblr user dirk-has-rabies created the Rabies Pride Movement for autistic trans individuals who feel like they are treated as less than human or diseased. In July of 2018 a satire account called rabidloving was ... -
Multi-generational Desire-based Design: A Critical Examination of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
(2021-08)On March 30, 1942, under President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, 227 Japanese Americans living in Bainbridge Island, Washington were gathered at the Eagledale Ferry Dock and forcibly sent to the internment camps for ... -
Tomb in paradise: The preservation of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great during the Islamic Revolution
(2021-08)The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran saw the destruction of many monuments to previous regimes. Despite the close alignment of the previous regime to the Tomb of Cyrus the Great and calls from Chief Justice Sadeq Khalkhali ...