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Gestational Occlusion: The Embodied Evolution of Whiteness in the Contemporary White Dancing Body
Get PDFHow does Whiteness exist in the contemporary White dancing body? This research stands on three pillars – delving into the concept of Whiteness, analyzing the White dancing body and how it performs in terms of racialized perception absent of personification, and the concept of the contemporary in relation to artistic practice in a racialized dance canon – to investigate how Whiteness manifests through the body. Sources from critical race theory, mainly Ian Haney-Lopez’sWhite by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (2006), and performance studies, Brenda Dixon Gottschild’s Digging the Africanist Presence (1998) and The Black Dancing Body (2008), are evaluated next to the development of a choreographic work, amniotic threading (2022), researching the DNA that comprises my own contemporary White dancing body to produce a new line of thought on how Whiteness inherently prevails in contemporary dance culture within White dancing bodies. After establishing how movement artists develop an embodied practice through a process analogous to gestation, in which a hybridized embryo of technique is cultivated containing genetic lineage of each technique and movement aesthetic embodied by the dancer, this process is analyzed next to Sara Ahmed’s The Phenomenology of Whiteness (2007), which posits that White bodies gaze outwards to the world around them, orienting their body in such a manner that the world unfolds from them.
I pose that Whiteness inherently exists in the contemporary White dancing body as an occlusion that conceals its fundamental artistic development in favor of producing a neutral culture for contemporary dance to evolve into. Proposed here is the notion that this inherent outward gaze that distinctly characterizes Whiteness might by its very nature increase the amount of culturally signified movement material that White dancing bodies are taking into the gestational development and embodied evolution of their individual artistic practice. The innateness of the outward gaze and lack of inward gaze occludes the ability to perceive the extent of cultural aesthetic threads comprising their rich dance lineage, therefore perpetuating the cycle of cultural theft and misappropriation, reifying Whiteness through the artistic development and embodied evolution of the White dancing body
The Nemoricultrix\u27s Guide to Faerieland, Vol I & II
No full textWhen I was smaller than I am, I lived in Faerieland. When I clawed my way to this place, the Sunlit world, to fall in love again and again and again, I thought I would never go back. But one day Faerieland will come to claim me, pull at the Name that was stitched half-unwillingly unto my self and bring me through. I know that now, as I have written. While I have time, here where time is real, I must tell you all that I remember. All that I heard when I was smaller than I am and lived in Faerieland
If Not, Yours
No full textAfter being attacked by vampire, seventeen-year-old Frankie Jung is kicked out of his home and left to move in with the vampires who saved his life. In a new school, in a new town, with a new identity, Frankie must unlearn humanity in order to figure out what parts of his past he gets to keep, and what he must throw away.
As Frankie attempts to learn how to be a vampire, he meets Jamie and Nino—two classmates of his who happen to be dating and take him under their wings. From Jamie and Nino, Frankie learns how to have fun, how to reconcile his past and future, and what falling in love with two people at once feels like.
Frankie ultimately learns that he does not have to throw away his entire history in order to have a new future—he can tend to his own pain, let go of what no longer serves him, and keep what he loves
Wanderscaping: Stirring Agitated Reflections into Our Home The Campus
Get PDFWanderscaping is a two part project completed over the 2021-2022 school year. The first portion, Wanderscaping Our Home The Campus meanders through the physical space of Sarah Lawrence College, as a landscape and an institution, while the second, Stirring An Agitated Reflection floats that knowledge in the psychic space of an interconnected host of guides, through books, conversations, and other media. As a whole this project is a process-oriented wrangling of freedom, connection, and their borders. It has culminated in practices of public participatory performance, photography, mapping, iconography, audio recording, and writing. Wanderscaping aims to share a space to dream in, so that we might wake up in our power.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1012/thumbnail.jp
I Found Me
No full textThis manuscript is the first part of the novel I FOUND ME that I have been working on over the course of my MFA in Writing at Sarah Lawrence. This story is a multigenerational drama about family centered around the conflicts in the complicated relationship between the mother-daughter protagonist duo, Maya and Raina set in the backdrop of the film industry in Mumbai, India
The Conversion to Telegenetics Through the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Accessibility to Genetic Counseling for Remote Indigenous Communities
No full textIndigenous populations in Canada, particularly those in remote locations, have historically been and continue to be underserved in health care services for multiple reasons, including but not limited to, accessibility due to the distance these remote communities are relative to their nearest healthcare centers and systematic racism. In addition to general health care services, remote Indigenous populations in Canada also have limited access to genetic counseling services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many health care services in Canada pivoted to remote models to limit patient-provider exposure. Genetic counseling services were included in this switch, with many appointments transitioning into phone or web-based (telegenetics) appointment styles. This study surveyed 44 Canadian genetic counselors on their experiences during the pandemic and how this switch to remote counseling affected access to remote Indigenous patients. The majority of respondents identified travel costs, internet access, privacy concerns, culture, language, and health/genetic literacy as access barriers before the pandemic. Distance and the associated travel time/cost to genetic counseling appointments were identified as the greatest barrier by our participants, and the remote telegenetics model was expected to alleviate travel time and cost. Many respondents are doubtful that other identified barriers, including healthcare access and systemic discrimination, will be alleviated solely by offering telegenetics appointments. The next steps for the Canadian genetic counseling community are to work to address accessibility issues to healthcare and infrastructure (i.e.internet, clinical space) in general for remote Indigenous populations, and work to improve relationships between communities. Future research should include surveying remote Indigenous patients and Indigenous community leaders directly to design the next steps to improve access to health care services including genetic counseling
Positioning Play as Abolition
Get PDFThis thesis argues that play-centered, abolitionist classrooms are necessary so that all students can thrive. The current American education system disproportionately harms Black students and is inextricably linked to the Prison Industrial Complex. Abolitionist teaching calls for the tearing down of systems of oppression and the creation of new spaces and institutions that center Black joy. Play is abolition because through play, children develop an awareness of the possibility and the right of freedom. This work outlines the necessity of abolition and the importance of play, followed by examples of play as abolition, and concludes with a vision for my own future classroom
