Watershed is Back!
After a brief semester off, we are back, and we're making it a goal of ours to embrace a wider range of writing and to amplify diverse...
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Zoe McDonald
- Apr 26, 2022
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...
watershedunl
- Apr 19, 2022
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...
Zoe McDonald
- Mar 22, 2022
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....
watershedunl
- Mar 8, 2022
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, 2022
"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, 2022
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...
Jaclyn Swiderski
- Feb 8, 2022
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...
Kasey Peters
- Feb 1, 2022
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...
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