Forestry as Anti-colonial Praxis

By Emily Delp on September 4, 2024

Colonialism has markedly influenced forestry in California, but Indigenous-led organizing for the recognition and inclusion of prescribed burning in forest management leaves hope that California’s forests can once again fully benefit from Indigenous management practices.

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Topologies of Vision

By Katherine Williams on August 1, 2024

The image analyst is the medium of interpretation, the medium through which information is both constructed and lost.

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From the Archives: Narrative as Memory, as Soul

By Maya Masa’deh on June 1, 2024

The archive can become an experience of engagement rather than a static entity in itself.

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Two-Way Street

By Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta on May 17, 2024

The road’s promise, much like America’s, is not often realized, but I still get my hopes up every time.

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4’33”

By Melia Chendo on May 16, 2024

John McHorter wanted his time clean. He wanted contained space– silence that we’ve never had. He wanted 4 minutes and 33 seconds precise, quiet, and enclosed.

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Galatea

By Ruby Barron on May 15, 2024

He often tells her the tale of her making. He whispers it against the ears he sews to her head. He hums it while he smooths skin across bones, draws thread through flesh, cradles organs before setting them in place.

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The Space of Sound

By Mary King on May 14, 2024

The relocatability of sound is a quality with enormous promise.

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Garbage Anxiety: Intimacy and Interconnection at the Landfill

By Vasi Bjeletich on May 13, 2024

Our trash cans are filled with mementos of our daily experiences. What happens to this intricate personal archive once it is picked up and taken away? How much of it will lie forever amidst the irredeemable refuse of the modern ...

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of and about (FTM 10 Years Later)

By August Ackley on May 12, 2024

of and about (FTM 10 Years Later) is an homage to the hidden corners of the late 2000s & early 2010s female-to-male transgender YouTube community that supported me and countless others during the early days of our transitions.

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Memorandum

By Louie Pardo on May 11, 2024

I try to move, but the camera has slowed, freezing me in place.

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Bad Faith in Bad Film

By Chloe Bouquet Brown on May 10, 2024

Within the palazzo and Nazi Germany, we can revisit such works to ask: How did this woman not see the atrocities around her? Why did she not speak up, or act differently?

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Interrogation, Exhaustion, Operation

By Zoe Scourtes on May 9, 2024

My limbs may move with the flow and my mind may move along the scenery, but I often wonder how my whole body operates.

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