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    Humanities on the Edge Presents: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
    Zoe McDonald
    • Apr 26

    Humanities on the Edge Presents: Anna Arabindan-Kesson

    Hank Willis Thomas’s The Cotton Bowl (2011), located in the Sheldon Museum of Art, juxtaposes a sharecropper in a cotton field...
    Howdy Partner: A Brief Overview of America's Queer Cowboy
    watershedunl
    • Apr 19

    Howdy Partner: A Brief Overview of America's Queer Cowboy

    By Keshia Mcclantoc Picture this, it’s 2005 and America flocks to the theatres to a see the newest neo-Western film. It stars two of...
    Humanities on the Edge Presents Thomas Nail
    Zoe McDonald
    • Mar 22

    Humanities on the Edge Presents Thomas Nail

    Even before he stepped onto the stage at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Auditorium, Thomas Nail knew he would present a disturbing argument....
    Feminist Education via YouTube (or, the Female Commentary Channels You Should Be Watching)
    watershedunl
    • Mar 8

    Feminist Education via YouTube (or, the Female Commentary Channels You Should Be Watching)

    By Keshia Mcclantoc (image from ShadesofNoir.org) “Joanne, I wanna talk to you Joanne…” a woman says to a camera. She is sitting on a...
    Jeff Hill
    • Mar 1

    "Fur" by Jeff Hill

    Author's Note: I originally wrote this piece as a creative writing assignment for Chigozie Obioma's literary movements class last fall. ...
    Kathleen Dillon
    • Feb 22

    a bipolar love song

    Author’s Note: I was inspired by ire’ne lara silva’s “diabetic love song” and wanted to try and write a similar poem about my experience...
    On (Still) Being a Disabled/Chronically Ill Graduate Student in a Global Pandemic
    Jaclyn Swiderski
    • Feb 8

    On (Still) Being a Disabled/Chronically Ill Graduate Student in a Global Pandemic

    At the beginning of 2022, my county lifted its mask mandate, despite the COVID-19 Risk Dial being in the red (where it has stayed for the...
    The Trudgy Muck of Reading Racist Old Texts: A Reckoning in the Digital Humanities
    Kasey Peters
    • Feb 1

    The Trudgy Muck of Reading Racist Old Texts: A Reckoning in the Digital Humanities

    For those lucky few in this world not familiar with the process of converting a historical, hard-copy text into a digital copy, I’ll...
    Briar Essex
    • Dec 7, 2021

    ten minutes standing still in a station

    ten minutes standing still in a station grand central people taking pictures of a ceiling red & green lights on greek gods photos posed...
    Humanities on the Edge, Ramon Grosfoguel
    Zoe McDonald
    • Nov 23, 2021

    Humanities on the Edge, Ramon Grosfoguel

    Why do some immigrants experience the American dream of upward social mobility while others experience premature deaths without justice...
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