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Carving through Rigid Space: Filipina Domestic Workers at Statue Square, Hong Kong

Zhuofan Chen — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:30:42 +0000

Figure 1: Filipina domestic workers’ gathering, view from Chater Road towards Statue Square – Visual China Group.

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Cruising on the Collapsing Queer Horizon: Alvin Baltrop’s Pier Photographs

Hassan Saab and Lan Wang — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:22:34 +0000

Pushed to the edge of the city, into the dilapidated Hudson River piers, outside of “civilized” Manhattan, queer men of the 70s and 80s cruised in the rubble. The ruins of the post-industrial city became an uncontrolled, non-commercial space and the site of non-reproductive gay sex. In addition to their spatial isolation from the city, the piers were also isolated culturally and temporally.

The Face of a Nation Divided: Discrimination Immortalized Through the Monticello on the Jefferson Nickel

Sara Cipolla — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:09:22 +0000

Figure 1: The “Jefferson Nickel” (obverse), 1970.

Strike a Pose: The Importance of Black Queer Spaces in the Late 20th Century, by John Vaccaro

laura.difiore@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:00:40 +0000

Harlem’s Imperial Lodge of Elks, commonly known as Elks Lodge, is located on 129th West Street in Central Harlem, New York City. It was constructed from 1922-24 and designed by African American architect Vertner Woodson Talley (1885-1949).

Toys build Empires. Or How Toys Act as Tools of Architectural Colonialism

Hermine Demaël — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:11:18 +0000

Note Throughout this reflection, I use the umbrella term “Indigenous Peoples” to refer to Native people and communities living in North America. This reflection addresses the erasure of Indigenous individuality and traditions by European toy manufacturers. While this reflection does not refer specifically to one Indigenous group, North America is home to many people with rich and diverse traditions, histories and languages.

Race and Gentrification: Investigating the Racialized History of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Boyles Heights

Ella Fortney — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:08:21 +0000

Figure 1: Orozco, Ernesto, Members of Defend Boyle Heights Protest in Front of Weird Wave Coffee Brewers, photograph, July 17, 2017, (Boyle Heights Beat).1

The Savoy Ballroom: Rejecting Black Exoticism Through Community-Driven Design

Clay Moon — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:02:49 +0000

In the 1930s, New York City’s Harlem neighbourhood found itself at the center of many political, cultural, and economic issues. During this post-war period known as the Depression-era, over three hundred thousand African Americans from the south known as “the Great Migration” flooded Harlem searching for employment.