Neuroqueer and Proud:
Claiming Identity and Community Despite and Through Theories of Theory of Mind
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Neuroqueer and Proud: Claiming Identity and Community Despite and Through Theories of Theory of Mind
March 4, 2016 - 00:14
February 12, 2016 - 15:39
The Art of Accompaniment:
Negotiating Conventional Communication and Caring Presence
I was most struck today by a statement Stella made, as she introduced us to the center. So far, she hasn’t given us many instructions as to how to interact generally with participants—and understandably so, as everyone at the center has their own unique ways of communicating, their own preferences and discomforts. But as soon as we entered the large room, full of artists hard at work in various mediums, she threw in a brief piece of advice: “Oh—and if you don’t understand what someone’s saying to you, ask them to repeat themselves. Don’t just say ‘yeah, okay,’ and don’t feel weird about how many times you have to ask.”
- excerpt from field notes, 1/27/16
December 8, 2015 - 00:32
“My Name is Mikael”:
Intersectional Truth Expressed Through Silence in Tomboy
Introduction
“Mikael is the new kid in town. Mikael is making friends. Mikael has a secret.”
December 4, 2015 - 23:06
Books Are My Internet:
Text as Mutable Technology & Reading as Radical Practice
A Saturday morning reflection on the events of the day before, in the prison.
December 2, 2015 - 23:39
From “Mammie” to “Mama”
Exploitation of Black Female Efforts Around the Civil Rights Movement
Fanny Lou Hamer at the Democratic Convention (1964) Hattie McDaniel & Vivian Leigh in Gone With the Wind (1939)
Representing a Movement
November 16, 2015 - 18:33
From “Mammy” to “Mama”:
Black Female Service Before, During and After the Civil Rights Movement
Postings
#BlackDisabledLivesMatter
04/04/2016 - 17:09
Beauty
03/28/2016 - 22:11
Paper Proposal: Trauma and Listening to (Un)Learn
03/24/2016 - 10:11
Organizing Around Difference
03/20/2016 - 13:46
Postcard #3
02/16/2016 - 00:08
The Accessibility of Personal Narrative
02/15/2016 - 20:37
Comments
Reflections
I felt very satisfied with the presentation of our work from Wednesday to Friday, beginning with what I considered to be a productive and enlightening opening reception. As a member of the curating team, I arrived early and helped set up easels and foam board, handing out the placards that I formatted and typed up for each piece. We had gone in hoping to have some sort of cohesive “flow” to the exhibit, but found that we had many restrictions in this sense because of the crowded nature of the campus center; we had to put easels wherever they could fit, and 3D pieces on whichever table was empty at the time. Still, we chose to place Kieres’s piece closest to UnCommon Grounds, as we imagined that the gaze of passersby as they walked in to the Campus Center would most likely fall on that wall, and we felt that her piece offered a coherent overview of the history of the prison system, as well as two examples of the day in the life an incarcerated person. The rest of the projects fell into place as we hurriedly attached them to pieces of foam board and displayed them on the standing easels around the room.
A lot came up for me in my meeting with Anne, Kristin, and Sara, as well as in the time I spent beforehand, preparing. I was finally able to put a name to what it was that made this semester-long experience so special.