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Person in white garment and dark sunglasses sitting on top of a pile of black plastic bags full of trash, in front of a brick wall.

Garbage Anxiety: Intimacy and Interconnection at the Landfill

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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 landfill? A different perspective on garbage and on abjection itself might finally allow us to embrace questions like these.
CriticismIndependent Project
 
 
A Seat at Our Table by Shatima Jones

Editor’s Note, A Seat at Our Table

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Writing and research from Shatima Jones's interdisciplinary seminars, “(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women’s Hair” and “Black Experiences in Literature, Movies, and Television,” published in honor of Black History Month, 2021.
Interdisciplinary SeminarResearch
 
 
Black Aesthetics and Activism by Shatima Jones

Black Aesthetics and Activism

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The thirds installment of "A Seat at Our Table," featuring “Fashion Activism: The Politics of Dress During the Civil Rights Movement” by Taylor Haynes, “Aretha Franklin's R-E-S-P-E-C-T-ability Politics: Hair, Music, and Activism” by Kayla Perez, “Redefining "Femininty": How Black, Queer Women Musicians Subvert Expectations of Womanhood” by Nina Ahmadi, and “Hip-Hop, Black Masculinity, and Sexuality--Frank Ocean and Tyler the Creator” by Sean Salmons.
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