I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the fine folks at the Library of Congess regarding the view that Professor Evans and I created for her project, SWAG Diplomacy using their platform, Viewshare! You can read the entire interview here but I wanted to provide a piece. Enjoy! Stephanie reached out to me, a graduate…
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SWAG Diplomacy
I’ve always loved building things. When I was a kid I used to have Dream Builders, which were essentially Legos for girls that were pastel pink and purple. I loved to build structures and pull them apart. As I recall, the sets steered you towards building “girly” structures like nurseries, and “playgrounds too, a building…
An Interview with L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire
As the video states, L and I go way back. Here we are talking about two of my favorite projects I co-create: Quirky Black Girls and the Crunk Feminist Collective! Oh and dig the Bobby B that opens up the video!
Media Make Change Interview!
I’ve been in the (e)news again! This time, it was a two part interview with Tara Conley of the fabulous Media Make Change Organization. You can check out parts 1 and 2 here. Here’s a little bit of what I had to say about the Digital Humanities: …I think that’s why Digital Humanities is a…
Queer, Black Geeks, Unite!
I got to do an awesome interview with long time community friend and newly minted QWOC Wire Writer Tiffany Y. Ates about my involvement with Shawty Got Skillz! Digital humanities dissident, Moya Bailey, has sculpted a yellow brick road in cyberspace for women of color. This summer she will travel to Detroit, along with her…
Thoughts on THATCamp CHNM!
I had the good fortune to attend THATCamp CHNM last week and it was awesome!!! After a day long English language nerd field trip, I arrived at THATCamp CHNM. The workshops offered were wonderful and I’m super confident about my Omeka and newly acquired Viewshare skills. I particularly enjoyed the mobile apps workshop which made something seemingly…
All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave
My “conversation” in the inaugural Journal of Digital Humanities is live! Special thanks to Natalia Cecire for the invitation! Following a fascinating talk by Ed Finn on the changing role and source of literary criticism in a digital age, Natalia Cecire queried the implicit neutrality of a term like “nerd.” Melissa Harris-Perry’s reclamation aside, the racialized and gendered aspects…
Relax, Relate, Release!
I take advice from my favorite 80’s/90’s TV show, A Different World. Whitley was having all these problems and her therapist told her to relax, relate, and release (2 Min mark). I’ve taken it to heart! Relax– I’ve been running on E because it’s the end of the semester and I don’t know how/if I can…
DH for the People!
My session idea for THATCampSE: I’m really excited about the types of DH projects university folks are creating. I’m also curious about discussing more applied DH projects that meet community needs and serve people beyond university walls. Universities have notoriously contentious community relations and it seems like more intentional collaborative outreach could help. If communities…
White Coats, White Doctors: The Flexner Report’s Continued Impact on Medical Student Education
In the afternoon of March 3, I’ll be presenting a bit of my dissertation research at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference in the Basswood Room of the Emory Conference Center at 2:45 pm. Come through! I’ll tell you about this picture!