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Tereteye
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Tereteye is a speculative lyric memoir that grapples with my personal Mexican diasporic identity in an internet-oriented world. The memoir engages the lyric mode to capture the concept of non-memory – aspects of experience that are not actively remembered but are accessed through embodied knowledge. Tereteye is invested in the project of the decolonial aesthesis which is meant to disobey/ disrupt the artistic and aesthetic standards of dominant US culture. For Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente this disruption is meant to “mobilize a critique of Western modernity and its colonial specter... it concerns aesthesis: the transformation of our sensibility and structures of feeling. My experimenting with the lyric mode seeks to honor traditional oral storytelling on the page as a form of political action. An underlying question throughout the project was: What does it mean to embody the identity of ancestor and how does that help me act in alignment with the struggle of liberation? The project came from my own reflection on what it means to have had the explicit demarcation of U.S./ Mexico border for over a century now and what historical parallels I see happening in the current political backdrop of mass deportation and the legitimacy of birthright citizenship currently being debated in the Supreme Court
“Everyone does it”: The Role of Norm Misperceptions in Online Video Game Discrimination
Get PDFPrejudicial comments within online player vs. player (PvP) video games have become normalized. Players with marginalized identities frequently hear comments that denigrate their identities. Social norms (descriptive norms and injunctive norms; Cialdini et al., 1990), and misperceptions of those social norms (pluralistic ignorance; Allport, 1924), may be influencing online players to use prejudicial comments or avoid confronting prejudicial comments when they typically would not. Study One investigated whether social norms influenced prejudicial behavior and confrontation behavior in an observational study using United States residents who played online PvP video games (N = 174). We found there is a collective misperception of other players’ behaviors and attitudes. Participants believed video game players made prejudicial comments more often than they actually did, and believed they approved of prejudicial comments more than they actually did. We found both social norms predicted players making prejudicial comments, but only descriptive norms predicted players confronting prejudicial comments. In Study Two, we experimentally manipulated confrontation norms (pro-confrontation vs. anti-confrontation) and anticipated social reactions post-confrontation (supportive vs. unsupportive), and measured confrontation intentions after participants witnessed an online sexism incident. There was an interaction; White American men who played First-Person Shooter online games (N = 201) reported higher confrontation intentions only when they received information that most players approved of online confrontations and anticipated support from other players after they confronted. This effect was only true for public confrontations, not for private confrontations. Implications for future research, industry applications, and the individual player’s role in changing the current norms are discussed
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Cannabis Production Systems in Washington State
Get PDFLegalization for medicinal and recreational consumption of Cannabis L. Sativa has created new and rapidly growing industries across the United States. Methods for producing cannabis products rely upon energy, water, and material inputs. Innovation in these methods have focused on increasing product potency and improving the use experience while neglecting the efficiency of the production process. Comparative life cycle assessments quantify the total embodied carbon emissions in a production process. The existing literature on this topic is limited, though some national estimates exist. We were given access to three cultivation facilities and two processing labs (Open-Field, Mixed-Light, Indoor Plant Farm, and (2) processing labs) where we collected annual data on energy, water, transport, and material inputs as well as annual product output rates. We found a range of emission rates from 12 to 140 kilograms of CO2e per kg of dried product at the point of sale. Results in biomass production across all methods averaged to 62 kg CO2e per kilogram of dried cannabis biomass. Extraction methods across all methods averaged to about 4 kg CO2e per gram of cannabis oil. An analysis of hourly emission rates showed the average emission rate methodology reports higher emissions than applying block emission rates for corresponding hours
Resolving the Magmatic and Tectonic Structure of the Tanaga Volcanic Cluster, Aleutian Arc, Alaska, Using Double Difference Earthquake Relocation and Tomography
No full textLocated in the Central Aleutians along the Pacific-North American convergent margin, Tanaga Island features four tightly clustered stratovolcanoes: Sajaka, Tanaga, East Tanaga, and Takawangha, collectively referred to as the Tanaga Volcanic Cluster (TVC). During periods of unrest in 2005 and 2023, temporal patterns in seismicity suggest that volcanoes in the cluster may be interconnected in the subsurface and geochemical data suggests they may share a parent magma source. Here, we use 21 years (2003 – 2024) of locally recorded seismic events cataloged by the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the double-difference seismic tomography algorithm tomoDD, to simultaneously relocate earthquake hypocenters and generate a 3-D P-wave velocity structure beneath Tanaga Island. We find that high P-wave velocity anomalies in the shallow (0-5 km below sea level) subsurface likely represent buried basaltic lava flows and a low P-wave velocity anomaly south of the volcanic cluster beneath Tanaga Bay likely represents hydrothermally altered material. A low P-wave velocity anomaly begins at ~7.5 km and extends to ~18 km and is centrally located beneath the volcanic cluster which we interpret as common magma storage for the entire TVC. Rigidity contrasts between materials likely controls the location of tectonic faulting beneath the island. We find that seismicity occurs primarily along a right-lateral, east-west striking transform fault system and is controlled by regional tectonics. Oblique subduction of the Pacific Plate causes strain to be partitioned on the overriding North American Plate which is accommodated by clockwise rotating bookshelf faults and their conjugates proximal to the volcanic system. In 2023, right-lateral motion on the east-west transform fault caused dilatation beneath the western TVC and allowed for the ascent of magmatic fluids and potential dike emplacement. We suggest that tectonic and volcanic processes exist in concert in the TVC system
Wildland Firefighter Intern
No full textWorking for Wy’east over the summer of 2025, I was called out to three different assignment or ‘rolls’, with my first starting on July 12, and my last ending September 25. The first roll was two weeks spent at the Hope Fire, the second was a weeklong at the Castle Rock Fire, and the third was three weeks spent at the Black Rock Fire and then reassigned to the Katy Creek Fire. I was part of a 20-person hand crew that stayed pretty much the same between all the rolls. The objectives of each roll varied from day to day, but all contributed to the overall goal of wildfire suppression, as well as being cautious and aware in the field to maximize the safety of the crew. These objectives were given to us as assignments by the overhead of the division we were assigned to. Most of these assignments included tasks such as brushing, mop-up, holding line, digging handlines, gridding for hotspots, felling hazardous trees, or setting up hose lays. My role as a member of the crew was to listen to directions from my supervisors so the assignments could get done well and efficiently. My role as an intern was learning from the more experienced people on the crew in order to become a more efficient, safe, and aware firefighter to contribute to the overall strength of our crew. Additionally, it was a priority during this job to gain experience with fieldwork, working well with a team, and using critical thinking to solve problems and stay safe
Losing Control: A Queer Autoethnography of an Eating Disorder
No full textThis paper explores eating disorder vulnerability in queer individuals in the form of an autoethnography. Personal story from the author’s life is combined with academic theory, methodology, and findings to help shed light on why queer people are at high risk of developing an eating disorder, along with other mental and physical health struggles. The paper focuses on the use of an intersectional lens and standpoint theory from the author’s perspective to increase audience understanding and impact. This vulnerability is explained through morality in identity, the minority stress model, family systems theory, along with societal perceptions of bodies and sports. The paper aims to explain the dangers of being complacent in problematic institutions and upholding hetero and cis normativity in all aspects of life
Ritual & Rosary: A Psychological Approach
No full textThis article explores the psychological functions and lasting importance of ritual participation, through the lens of the Catholic Rosary. It defines ritual, and distinguishes it from routine. It also highlights key scholars in the field of religious studies, Emile Durkheim, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Michael Norton, while explaining their ideas on how ritual promotes benefits on the individual and collective level. The Rosary serves as an example of these effects in modern and ancient times. Ultimately, the article argues that ritual participation often fulfills a universal human need for emotional stability, purpose, and belonging, showing why practices like the Rosary endure for hundreds of years
Transmute: finding pathways through aphasia
No full textAphasia is a communication disorder that affects a person\u27s ability to speak, read, write and understand language. Research has shown that aphasia can greatly affect mental health, causing higher rates of depression, stress and isolation in the lives of people with aphasia. This educational documentary focuses on telling the stories of real lived experiences of 4 individuals with aphasia and 3 caregivers/spouses of people with aphasia, and bridges the fields of psychology and speech, language and hearing sciences. It highlights the Western Washington University speech, language and hearing clinic\u27s aphasia group and provides expertise from clinicians and staff that work at work there. This documentary was created with the goal to humanize communication disorders and spread awareness of aphasia.
[Supporting materials for the documentary are included as supplementary files with this page.
Professional Collegia and the Development of Gallo-Roman Urban Culture
No full textThis thesis examines the presense of professional collegia associations in the Gallic provinces during the era of the Roman Principate and their effect on Gallo-Roman urban culture. An element of Greco-Roman urbanism, collegia spread into Gaul as part of its shifting urban landscape in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. Collegia functioned as status-allocating collectives that impacted local social landscapes through their modes of public commemoration and reputation building for both their lower class members and local elite patrons. By examining the spread, distribution, and motivations for Gallic adoption of collegia, this thesis shows how processes of cultural change centered on examples of provincial agency. In Gaul, the social power collegia wielded shaped the local urban elite that came about after the Julio-Claudian dynasty fell. The upwards mobility collegia provided merchants and craftsmen formed an influential base of local social prestige, distinct from older Gallic or Roman notions of prestige, that characterized this new urban culture
The Spiritual Hydra
No full textThis thesis examines how the Spiritualist press functioned as both the connective tissue that sustained the Spiritualist movement and the destabilizing force that undermined its cohesion. In the absence of a centralized authority or formal church structure, newspapers such as the Banner of Light, Herald of Progress, The Spiritual Telegraph, and others became the de facto institutions of the movement. They connected geographically dispersed believers, provided a shared language of faith, and offered a public arena where mediums, skeptics, and lay participants could debate the meaning and legitimacy of spiritual communication. Yet the same press that enabled this sense of collective identity also thrived on sensationalism and controversy, continually testing the boundaries of belief and eroding the stability it helped create.
The study argues that this paradox, between cohesion and fragmentation, defined both the rise and decline of the early phase of American Spiritualism. Through its expansive reporting on séances, spirit photography, and the lives of prominent mediums, the Spiritualist press created a national conversation that popularized the movement’s central claims. However, its dependence on novelty and spectacle transformed belief into a consumable commodity. Competing editors, eager to expand readership, often exaggerated or contradicted one another, amplifying internal divisions and heightening public skepticism. The press’s pursuit of credibility and profit thus mirrored the very tension at the heart of Spiritualism: a faith grounded in radical individual experience yet yearning for collective validation.
By tracing this dynamic through key case studies, including the press coverage of spirit photography and the editorial policies of major Spiritualist newspapers, this thesis reveals how the media both empowered and destabilized new forms of religious expression in nineteenth-century America. The Spiritualist press became a self-perpetuating machine, feeding on controversy to sustain attention, even as that appetite for sensation accelerated the movement’s fragmentation. Ultimately, this study contends that the Spiritualist press not only chronicled the history of Spiritualism but actively shaped it, offering an early example of how modern media can both construct and consume the movements it brings to life