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Taking Care: The Question of AR, VR, and Blackness

Jessica Lu — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:11 +0000

I can’t breathe. At once: the wheezing out of a severely singular experience. Yet and also: a hailing of the social, political, economic, and environmental phenomena surrounding Eric Garner’s loss of breath. My dissertation, On Black Breath: A Theory and Praxis, undertakes a partial genealogy of breath as it has been racialized within the

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From Analyzing to Actualizing Apartheid: A Journey in Realization

Jessica Lu — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:00:09 +0000

As an educator, scholar, journalist and filmmaker, my work has sat at the intersection of black digital humanities and creative scholarship for the last decade. A TV nerd, I spent the first half of my career examining the representation of black women in television. I was consumed by depictions of black women on the

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