A [Love] Letter to You, to Us
Dear Youth, Media & Educational Justice Fam, I’m not sure where to begin, tonight rendered me speechless. After leaving class, I walked to the subway in a daze and as soon as I… Continue reading
Category Archive: Doctoral Student-in-Training
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What Still Remains Left Unsaid about “Being White in Philly”: An Open Letter to Robert Huber
So……the above image is the cover of the most recent edition of Philadelphia Magazine. An aesthetically bold cover–the juxtaposition of colors absolutely catches your eye. And that most likely happens before you even read the… Continue reading
I hate to break it to you, but…Black History Month is just not cutting it…
Black History Month 2013 kicked off last Friday, February 1. In elementary school, this was one of my favorite parts of the year and curriculum. Thinking back, I can trace the roots of… Continue reading
My Semester-in-Review: The People & Things That Inspired Me and That YOU Should Know About
Soooo….if you haven’t noticed yet, I’m BIG into reflecting. As I said in one of my first posts, I wasn’t always like this, mostly because I was under the false impression that there… Continue reading
“Let Me Pump Ya Brakes”
A Short Film About a Young Artist Collective Who is Redefining “Cool” by Challenging Stereotypes and Assumptions about Urban Youth’s Relationship to Hip Hop For two hours this past Wednesday evening, I had the privilege of watching 19… Continue reading
Mid-Week Reminders of Why I’m Doing What I’m Doing
I had a truly incredible day today. To start, Marshall Jones, a spoken word poet, visited my Media Arts class at KIPP Charter School, where he performed his poem Touchscreen and provided my students with… Continue reading
“Where I’m From” Project
In this short multimodal piece entitled, “Where I’m From,” I use still and moving images, music, and my own voice to simultaneously illustrate and interrogate what “from” means in relation to my social… Continue reading
Lessons for Life in Academia: Learning to Defy the Dominant Discourse (or at least taking the first few baby steps in the right direction)
[a post started in December, that I am just revisiting and finishing up now] In class last night, one of my professors (a man who has been teaching the same subject at the… Continue reading
Visual & Written Story #1: School/Life Balance
Visual Story #1 for my art education class. In it I explore and try to communicate the significance of two major parts of my life: social and school. School/Life Balance It’s only recently… Continue reading