I Will Make No Defense
I Will Make No Defense is a combination of a short essay and a free-form poetry chapbook with a glossary of anattractional terms*. The essay discusses the erasure of complex queer identities within...
View ArticleThe Queer Holocaust
Everyone knows that in Weimar Germany, Adolf Hitler's main target was the Jewish population, however, there were other oppressed groups who faced his wrath as well. Queer folks during this time also...
View ArticleThe Cycle of Control: How Men Convince Women to Doubt Their Minds and Bodies
In ultra-conservative religious communities, men in positions of power will often use tactics that cause women to doubt their thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Women are gaslighted into believing they...
View ArticleAI Ethics: Education
The usage of AI is problematic for the history of many races. Without any regulations what is stopping many from creating false history and potraying it as true. With an increase usage of AI from...
View ArticleStop Looking Away: On The Zone of Interest and Palestine
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is a radical interrogation of complicity, silence, and the carefully curated distance that enables atrocity to unfold in full view. Through a cinematic language...
View ArticleA Cultural Patchwork
Quilting is an artform that has gone through many changes from utilitarian blankets made from scraps designed to keep a family warm, to artistic masterpieces pushing the boundaries of what can be...
View ArticleLos Muxes de Juchitán: Resistance, Identity, and Expressions of Gender in the...
This work is a cultural analysis of the Indigenous Zapotec third-gender community in Juchitán, México called the muxes. It examines the historical context that explains how the muxes have survived the...
View ArticleRationing Hunger: The Gendered Consequences of India's Public Distribution...
This paper examines how the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, while introduced to address hunger and food insecurity, displaces women from traditional farming, weakens their nutritional...
View ArticleAccess to Augustana’s Ascension Chapel: Who Gets to Worship?
This poster seeks to educate readers about the challenges disabled students would face in attending a service in Augustana College’s Ascension Chapel and how inaccessible this actually is using maps...
View ArticleMidwestern Landscapes, Immigrant Hands: Swedish Artists and the Regionalist...
The Regionalist movement in American art attempted to define an authentic national identity through depictions of the American landscape, rural life, and working-class values and communities. From the...
View ArticleData Sonification: The Art of Exploring Space Through Sound
Data sonification is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary field that involves the transformation of data into sound. As the amount of data collected in today’s world continues to rise exponentially, new...
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