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Become The Monster: Identity, Perception, And What It Means To Be Inhuman, Juniper Amundson
Become The Monster: Identity, Perception, And What It Means To Be Inhuman, Juniper Amundson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This collection of crocheted pieces illustrates what monsterhood is, how monsters are created, and what it means to become one. Following concepts from queer and disability theory, monsterhood is established as an externally constructed identity that is traditionally imposed on others rather than self-initiated. The pieces illustrate three significant steps in understanding and unpacking how monsters come into being: finding the language to name the monster, embodying that language, and liberating that embodied language from the systems of oppression that shape it. In applying these steps to my own narrative as a disabled transsexual graduating college mid-pandemic, I demonstrate the …
Tactile Arts Club, Hayden Hauge, Rowan Havranek
Tactile Arts Club, Hayden Hauge, Rowan Havranek
Honors Expanded Learning Clubs
Students will build tactile skills while learning how to crochet, knit, and sew, and they will have a finished project in their hands at the conclusion of the club.
Raising Canes: Crafting Disability Narratives, Charlotta Abernathy
Raising Canes: Crafting Disability Narratives, Charlotta Abernathy
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Disability is a common part of life, but not a well understood part of our cultural conscience. Because of this, the oppression that disabled people face, ableism, is particularly pervasive and under addressed. In order to begin to chip away at the systemic ableism that is embedded in all parts of society, disabled people need better representation in the media. This means not just showing stories that involve disabled people or that are about disabled people, but actual stories by disabled people about disability. One area of particular interest to me is addressing ableist misconceptions about assistive technology. To take …
Steder, Robbie (Fa 1038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steder, Robbie (Fa 1038), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 1038. Paper titled “Needlecraft” in which Robbie Steder describes the techniques, materials, and patterns used by women who embroider and sew. Paper is based on data collected by Steder from family and acquaintances and contains photographic examples of handiwork.