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The Never-Ending Lap, Ennica D. Jacob, Alexis Reese
The Never-Ending Lap, Ennica D. Jacob, Alexis Reese
Capstones
This personal film documents the journey of a Haitian-American woman dealing with sexual trauma in a culture that doesn’t speak candidly on the topic. How can women of the African- American diaspora break the cycle of sexual trauma and what are coping mechanisms to navigate their life choices with awareness?
The Never-Ending Lap will follow Ennica’s own healing process, delving delve into the cycles of sexual trauma. The film will explore past experiences through journal entries, therapy sessions and her love for track and field as she is on the road to search for coping mechanisms and healing.
Link: https://ennicajacob.myportfolio.com/videos
Rich In Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics Of The Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Rich In Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics Of The Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Situated temporally between the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement, the Welfare Rights Movement of the 1960s and 70s distinguished itself by its militant critique of waged labor. Returning to the movement’s archives I examine how the mostly poor, Black, female participants developed their “antiwork politics”, how they asserted their right to live not only meager but occasionally luxurious lives—demanding not only bread but also roses. In the courts, streets, welfare offices, department stores, policy proposals, and numerous internal debates, these women waged national battles to assert full autonomy over their families, consumption, sexuality, and their own time.
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