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The Oppression and Resiliency of Women
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT? I resonated the most with the topic of feminism. In addition to recent events (Brock Turner trial and the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett) I have also been on the receiving end of cat calls, stereotypes etc. I really wanted to show the power of women, and everything we have gone through to get where we are today. I also live in Michigan, and during the pandemic there have been some hurtful sayings/actions done against our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer. She was a big inspiration for this poster because through it all, she does what\u27s best for our state and citizens. Another inspiration was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I took a lot of government classes back in high school and I learned so much about her and what she\u27s done in the Supreme Court. Her recent passing was really painful for many reasons. Besides being a wonderful human overall, her successor Amy Coney Barrett is an instant threat to all human rights we have established. Overall, I wanted to illustrate how powerful, beautiful, and strong women are.
WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORK? My stylistic inspiration was art during the Third-wave Feminism. I really like the layered and multi-textured look, so I tried to make a modern version of that! Making art is not my strong suit since I\u27m a Music Business major, but I\u27m really pleased with how my poster turned out.
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS? This was all done digitally, but I really wanted to include different textures and filters. I first took images off of Google that I liked, and erased the background. From there, I added in any edits I felt fit the theme of my piece. To put it all together, I turned to the app Procreate. I layered the icons and added in my own doodles/sketches to finish off the poster.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingprotest/1015/thumbnail.jp
El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT? My neighborhood Little Village which I\u27ve lived for 19 years is close to being gentrified, displaced, and erased of its long resistance and established Mexican culture. It all started with our alderman George A. Cardenas selling the Discount Mall leaving more than 200 vendors without jobs, taking away their livelihood, and potentially gentrifying Little Village as NOVAK and Cardenas plan to turn the Discount Mall into a Target. This not only leaves immigrant workers without jobs, but its increases poverty for brown families, displaces the people, and kills the culture of what Little Village is known for. As a resident of Little Village and member of Juntos por la Villita, it\u27s important that La Villita is brought justice as well as the 200 plus vendors affected.
WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORK? This piece allows access for anyone to become apart of change, so that vendors can continue to make a living for themselves, their families in the U.S. and outside the U.S., and to continue resistance in Little Village to fight against gentrification.
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS? gathered the information that I am aware of from the vendors and the group of Juntos por la Villita, and made it clear for the people to understand what\u27s going on. My community is the voice and so they are in my poster from the color choice, the photographs, and the background.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingprotest/1020/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Bridget Ekis
Get PDFBridget Ekis (she/her/hers) was born in Waterford, Michigan.At a young age, she bought her first camera and started photographing surroundings. Soon after, she had started working at Waterford Coney Island and she graduated from n Waterford Kettering High School in 2017. She then quickly moved to Chicago to attend Columbia College Chicago. When she moved back home due to the pandemic, she was unsure if she would continue attending Columbia in the fall and while livig at home, she attended community college. She came back to Chicago to attend Columbia and moved into her first apartment with a roommate and dog, and started a new job at Stepping Stones Nursery and Preschool in August, where she is now and is in her senior year of college at Columbia.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingquarantine/1030/thumbnail.jp
Guide to the Early Photography Collection
Get PDFThis guide describes the organization and scope of the Early Photography curated collection housed within the College Archives and Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. This collection contains examples of early photographic processes: daguerreotype; celluloid film; stereographic postcards; ambrotypes; tintypes; cabinet cards; photographic albums; and viewing devices for the stereographs. Collected through purchase and donation by the Columbia College Chicago Library in the 1970s and 1980s, the material was selected in consultation with faculty of the Photography Department for classroom instruction
Columbia Chronicle (12/09/2019)
Get PDFStudent newspaper from December 9, 2019 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 16 pages and is listed as Volume 55, Issue 14. Cover story: 2010s . Co-Editors-in-Chief: Blaise Mesa & Alexandria Yetter.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle/2078/thumbnail.jp
Looking at People Watching People- A Comparative Approach of American and British Advertising
Get PDFAdvertising reaches millions of audiences every day, yet some of the most impactful ads only appear once, while other advertisements thrive in a world where audiences are most receptive to what the campaign is feeding to the masses. Spaces like the Super Bowl, ads created for the wonders of television are the bridge between artificial realism and situational experiences that most people can relate or aspire to, but what if one person’s experience is leaning towards misrepresentation? In this paper, I’ll be using media studies to dissect American advertising, through its construction of non-profit advertising and responding to the form of strategy being used
Queering Dominant Modes of Writing and Identity Formation in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Get PDFAs part of a historical formation of marginalized authors who interrogate dominant modes of writing and identity formation in their work, self-described “Black lesbian mother warrior poet” Audre Lorde remakes and reimagines dominant conventions of identity and literary genres in her novel Zami: A New Spelling of My Name to articulate her unique subjectivity as a Black American lesbian writer. Drawing on the work of scholars and activists in the fields of queer theory and feminism, including Cheryl Wall, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Audre Lorde herself, Charlie Martin uses textual and contextual analysis to examine the indelible link between Lorde’s intersecting identity as a Black feminist lesbian and the work that she does to subvert or “queer” dominant modes of storytelling and reductive conceptions of identity in Zami and her other work. Martin contends that through the deployment of both traditional narrative forms and poetic techniques in tandem with each other, Zami presents an alternative mode to the traditional novel that refuses to confine itself to one rigid way of being by insisting upon a hybrid approach to writing and an intersectional conception of identity. In doing so, Zami as an emergent text is able to convey moments of deep affect and erotic knowledge about self-identity and identity formation
Collective Political Action and Activism on Twitter: The Merits and Limitations of the Framing Tactics and Strategies of the 2018 National Prison Strike
Get PDFThe success of any collective political action relies heavily on public opinion. The leaders of these actions use framing techniques to optimize the reach of their message and convince broader portions of the population to sympathize with their cause. Today, most political conversations and debates about pressing social issues takes on social media platforms such as Twitter, which could be conceptualized as a virtual public sphere, where different individuals meet and discuss political events and issues as equally empowered citizens and active members of society. However, in practice, some individuals remain unable to participate in these discourses and conversations. Philip Wasserburg examines the case of the 2018 riot at Lee Correctional Facility in South Carolina and the nationwide Prison Strike—the largest in the history of the United States—it triggered. Here, Wasserburg argues that due to legal restrictions on prisoner’s right to freedom of speech, the voices and stories heard by the public on social media were restricted to those from a few Twitter accounts run by inmates, which were responsible for convincing a broadly punitively inclined public that injustices within the prison system do in fact exist. Through a critical analysis of the framing techniques of these social media accounts leading and organizing the Strike, a fuller picture emerges that reveals the limitations, successes, and shortfalls of this particular form of collective political action on Twitter
2019 Commencement Program
Get PDFThe commencement program of the 2019 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/commencement/1058/thumbnail.jp
Columbia Chronicle (09/09/2019)
Get PDFStudent newspaper from September 9, 2019 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 16 pages and is listed as Volume 55, Issue 2. Cover story: South Loop Comes Alive: Burgers, Bears and Billiards . Co-Editors-in-Chief: Blaise Mesa & Alexandria Yetter