Amoshaun Toft: Telling the same old story at Third and Pine

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is interviewed in "Telling the same old story at Third and Pine," a current analysis of homelessness discourse published by Real Change News. The article argues that that Toft’s previous research on homelessness discourse from 2008, along with a subsequent journal article from 2014, provides a useful framework for understanding the current framing of homeless sweeps in Seattle.

April 18, 2022

Naomi Macalalad Bragin brings Waacking/Punking dance research to Paris

April 9 and 11, IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin moderated a roundtable and gave a research talk on Waacking/Punking, a dance that derives from the first gay clubs of Los Angeles, California, during the Disco and Funk music era of the early 1970s. Her groundbreaking work highlights ...

April 12, 2022

Ted Hiebert: The camera is a raft

The coronavirus pandemic may have closed theaters and art galleries, but it didn’t quell the desire to create works of art that would eventually fill those spaces or provide comfort to others. As the great painter Dorothea Tanning once said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” ...

April 12, 2022

Masahiro Sugano’s short film addressing anti-Asian violence awarded first place at The Artists Forum Juried Competition in New York City

In May 2021, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt responded to a rise in anti-Asian violence with a short film titled “Listen Asshole” based on a poem by the spoken word duo Yellow Rage. The poem, originally written 20 years ago by Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh, sought to defy stereotypes that many people perpetuate about Asian Americans and ...

April 12, 2022

MFA alum Liezel Moraleja Hackett publishes with Sampaguita Press and Write or Die Tribe

Liezel Moraleja Hackett (MFA '17) never thought she would be writing about writing, but the MFA alum has discovered both the pleasure and community-building possibilities of sharing her poetics as a contributor to the website Write or Die Tribe, an online collective that provides resources for writers of all genres seeking, in their words ...

April 11, 2022

Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poems and interview

The latest issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review includes a series of poems from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaboration with Terri Witek, W/\SH, a book of speculative ecopoetics that grapples with climate catastrophe. Comprising a series of myths and visual transmissions, the poems connect women on ...

April 11, 2022

Ching-In Chen’s works selected for Re-Examining Conservation exhibit book

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu,” “Original,” “Predator,” and “Guest/Stalker” were selected to be included in an artist book to accompany the Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of the Arts & Sciences exhibit, on view April 4-June 10 in the ...

April 7, 2022

Julie Shayne presents paper at the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) annual Winter Conference

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne (she/her/hers) was invited by SWS president Dr. Roberta Villalón to be a featured guest on the panel “Celebrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives as Integral to Feminisms.” Her paper was called “Reflections from a Feminist Editor: Blending Sociological Analysis and Feminist Theory to Create Interdisciplinary Texts and Pedagogy.” In it, she argued ...

April 4, 2022