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A Poetic Call For And A Reflection And Commentary On Clarity, Understanding, Hope, Courage, And Compassion, Carroy U. Ferguson Aug 2026

A Poetic Call For And A Reflection And Commentary On Clarity, Understanding, Hope, Courage, And Compassion, Carroy U. Ferguson

Psychology Faculty Publication Series

Finding a published poem I had written as a teenager, titled “The Heavens Weep.” this article uses that poem as the basis for a commentary that reflects on the state of the world today (2026),  As a commentary, the article uses the poetic and metaphoric words in the poem as a relevant "reality check" for what is still going on today.  In essence, the commentary is about a call for Clarity, Understanding, Hope, Courage, and Compassion, or what I call Archetypal Energies, Higher Vibrational Energies that operate deep within our individual and collective psyches to creatively urge us to "see" …


The Reclamation, Peter Njagi Mwangi, Charles E. Becknell Jr Jun 2026

The Reclamation, Peter Njagi Mwangi, Charles E. Becknell Jr

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

This poem stages a classroom conversation about language, knowledge, and the study of Black history and thought. Through dialogue between a professor and a student, the conversation reflects on a central question within Africana Studies: why are indigenous African languages rarely included in how the field teaches, writes, and shares knowledge? While colonial languages such as English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese function as practical tools in the modern university, the poem raises the question of what may be missing when African languages remain largely absent. Drawing on ideas like Ubuntu and Sankofa, the poem imagines Africana Studies as a living …


The Thinnest Veil, Charles Butler Jun 2026

The Thinnest Veil, Charles Butler

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

The Thinnest Veil is a work of fiction set in a historical colonial world that traces the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. The main character, Anuli, is abducted from her home in Nigeria and is sold into deeper levels of the American slave system. I wanted to write from a woman’s perspective in this project and think about what power this character would have in this world. I also wanted to explore West African culture and origin, and the influence they have left in other places they have been. In August 2025, I traveled to Barbados to research the …


Tùn-Scene And A-Futurism: Biomythography, Opacity, And Posthuman Imagination, Minglu Du May 2026

Tùn-Scene And A-Futurism: Biomythography, Opacity, And Posthuman Imagination, Minglu Du

Masters Theses

Grounded in the author’s position as a Chinese feminist, this thesis examines how East Asian women, as well as East Asian-coded femininity more broadly, are objectified and othered within futurist visual culture in the age of artificial intelligence. Through an engagement with ornamentalism, techno-Orientalism, and posthumanism1 , it argues that the persistent figure of the feminized humanoid cyborg continues to reproduce colonial and patriarchal structures of desire, rendering marginalized bodies as fetishized and violable surfaces. In response, the thesis develops Tùn-Scene, a biomythographic artistic framework and the first experiment in what the author provisionally names A-Futurism. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s …


Internalizing Diasporic Peoples: How Do We Keep Native Hawaiians Connected?, Kallie P. Kaaihue-Paopao May 2026

Internalizing Diasporic Peoples: How Do We Keep Native Hawaiians Connected?, Kallie P. Kaaihue-Paopao

Whittier Scholars Program

In the attempt to better understand the grounds for the generation culture disconnect of identity in Native Hawaiians, I study the diaspora of my people. Diaspora is the dispersion of people from their native lands. I find interest in this aspect of my people because the most common studies blame our dispersion on socioeconomic status and as a Native Hawaiian that wishes to do more for her people, I want to express that while it plays a part that there is a disconnection between the social actions and reactions of Hawaiʻi’s people. Common questions that I find unanswered are, why …


Luja Volume 6: Issue 1 (Full Volume) Apr 2026

Luja Volume 6: Issue 1 (Full Volume)

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Constellate, Liz Fisher, Elizabeth Fisher Apr 2026

Constellate, Liz Fisher, Elizabeth Fisher

Past Student Achievement Day Conference Posters and Presentations

Chapbook of original poetry and prose, including select translations by Elizabeth Fisher.


"Black History Is Black Horror": Hauntology And Cultural Trauma In 20th And 21st Century Black Women's Gothic Horror, Destini S. Beckwith Apr 2026

"Black History Is Black Horror": Hauntology And Cultural Trauma In 20th And 21st Century Black Women's Gothic Horror, Destini S. Beckwith

Theses

Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic, gothic horror, neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) vividly illustrates the story of a woman, Dana, involuntarily time-traveling from her home in 1976 Los Angeles, California, to a plantation in 19th-century Maryland. The interactions that she has with her ancestors, such as Alice, a free Black woman, and Rufus, a white man who enslaves Alice, leave Dana mentally and physically scarred. The 20th-century novel is meant to graphically reflect on the horrors of enslavement and the mental and physical effects that Black people endured/still endure because of it (i.e., grief, racial violence, and post-traumatic stress disorder). Furthermore, the novel’s …


Storytelling, Henry D. Juarez Mar 2026

Storytelling, Henry D. Juarez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Heternormativity, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Heternormativity, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Sin Título, Daisy Camacho Mar 2026

Sin Título, Daisy Camacho

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Journal Entry #1, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Journal Entry #1, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Pain Into Anger!, Davion Holman Mar 2026

Pain Into Anger!, Davion Holman

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew., Venus Elizalde Mar 2026

Amá Always Said. Apá Only Knew., Venus Elizalde

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


A Letter To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal Mar 2026

A Letter To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal Mar 2026

Memories Are Like Clues: A Message To My Juror, Michael Anthony Mariscal

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mi Deseo, William Hopeau Mar 2026

Mi Deseo, William Hopeau

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home, Gina Muñoz Mar 2026

Living Vicariously Through The Fading Childhood Memories Of Home, Gina Muñoz

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


More Than A Brown Girl, Mia Rose Rios Mar 2026

More Than A Brown Girl, Mia Rose Rios

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mamadas, Erandi Hernández Aguilar Mar 2026

Mamadas, Erandi Hernández Aguilar

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Namesake, Adrian Garcia Mar 2026

Namesake, Adrian Garcia

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo Mar 2026

Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Xonecuilli (Blue Worm), Benjamin Perez Mar 2026

Xonecuilli (Blue Worm), Benjamin Perez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Ethan Pena Mar 2026

Untitled, Ethan Pena

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Paul Zargosa Mar 2026

Untitled, Paul Zargosa

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Slavery Is Not Our History !!, Dana Offley Mar 2026

Slavery Is Not Our History !!, Dana Offley

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Recordar Es Resistir, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey Mar 2026

Recordar Es Resistir, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


No Forget, Brah!, Samuel Nault Mar 2026

No Forget, Brah!, Samuel Nault

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Jerry Mendoza Mar 2026

Untitled, Jerry Mendoza

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Beaners, Maria - Mar 2026

Beaners, Maria -

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.