Who Sees, Who Writes, Who Tells What Stories?
What if ‘Hamilton: The Musical’ is a satirical sociopolitical commentary on the ways in which we tend to remember and retell American history?
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Why and How to Critically “Read” What’s Happening in Baltimore
Since late last week, my Facebook newsfeed has been riddled with opposing opinions, quotations, and links about Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray. As in the aftermath of the… Continue reading
My TEDx Talk, “The Power of Digital Storytelling”
On May 18, I had the opportunity to give my first TEDx talk, “The Power of Digital Storytelling,” at the Solebury School located in New Hope, PA. As I explain in the talk,… Continue reading
Celebrating a Small “Victory” in the Wake of Cultural Mis-Appropriations at the VMAs
Just when we thought that Miley Cyrus and the overtly racist bubble she’s been bouncing around in for the past few months might soon float into oblivion (or popular culture purgatory) as summer… Continue reading
Becoming Hip-Hop: Finding My Place in a Culture, Movement, and Pedagogy
In January I wrote a post, My Semester in Review: The People & Things That Have Inspired Me, reflecting on my fall semester, a series of four months full of experiences that have… Continue reading
A Millennial on “Millennials”: The Complicated Relationship I Have With My Own Generation
Last month, TIME Magazine’s cover story was about the Millennial generation, also known as Generation Y, those born between 1980-2000. The title of the article reads: Millennials are a generation mostly of teens and 20-somethings known… Continue reading
The Anger, Pleasure & Sheer Guilt of Sunday Nights at 9:00, A Semi-Auto-Ethnographic Analysis of HBO’s “Girls”
This past weekend I attended the Central Pennsylvania Consortium’s Annual Women’s Studies Conference. I not only met some amazing undergraduate Women’s & Gender Studies majors from Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, and Bucknell;… Continue reading
What I Missed While Multitasking During the Oscars…
Last night, about an hour and a half into the Oscars, I received a text from my boyfriend asking how it was possible that I wasn’t all over Twitter and Facebook voicing my… 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