Qualitative researchers: What are your experiences with Quirkos or Taguette? I'd like to try out different QDA platforms that are more explicitly ethical/participatory/justice-oriented. Any others I should look into?
To my fellow excavators, fugitives, conspirators, fighters, bridge-builders, fire-starters, and advocates: you're not "lucky to be here." HERE is lucky to have YOU. #FirstGenCelebration
Julie Feng Shared in 2024 Student - Ph.D. Communication, UW Seattle M.A. Cultural Studies, UW Bothell, 2021 B.A. English: Creative Writing, UW Seattle, 2013 What does it mean to you to be a current first-generation student? Being the first person in my family to go to college means that I enter every space as an excavator, a fugitive, a conspirator, a fighter, a bridge builder, a fire starter, and an advocate for myself and for my communities. What brought you to the University of Washington? I'm a triple Husky - I got my B.A. in English/Creative Writing, my M.A. in Cultural Studies, and now working on my Ph.D. in Communication at the UW. It's important to be rooted in a local community. Although I've lived in other places in the world and I will again, I find meaning in having a home here. Where do you see yourself after graduation? Whatever pathway I take after graduation, it'll always include research, art, pedagogy, and cultural work towards collective liberation. I hope to be a scholar of stories who makes a change in the world! What insights would you share with current and future first-gen students? You're not just on the right path, you are paving the path. You're not lucky to be here, here is lucky to have you.
For National First-Generation College Celebration Day, the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences invited me to share what it means to be #FirstGen.
Read more first-gen stories: artsci.washington.edu/student-expe...
Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement. New Report: tinyurl.com/WAflock. University of Washington Center for Human Rights. Stylized digital collage showing border patrol and police agents looking into Washington state Flock data.
New report! “Leaving the Door Wide Open" finds Flock Safety automated license plate reader technology threatens Washingtonians’ rights to privacy, protections for immigrants, and access to reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare.
Read the report: www.tinyurl.com/WAflock
Red tote bag that reads "MeCCSA 2025: Identity and Belonging" with a Edinburgh Napier University building in the background
I connected with some inspiring scholars of media, communication, and cultural studies at the @meccsa.bsky.social @meccsa2025.bsky.social conference! What a beautiful time in Edinburgh. #MeCCSA2025
Using Narrative Power to Advance Liberation - Read an excerpt from LIBERATION STORIES edited by Shanelle Matthews, Marzena Zukowska, and RadComms in @npquarterly.bsky.social ow.ly/qwai50W7NxC
Hi Rowena!!! So lovely to see you here!
The people who say:
"not my problem"
"just keep your head down"
"sure you can protest but don't inconvenience me"
"but your demands are unrealistic"
They are not just complicit. They are crucial to the rise of fascism.
The lack of moral courage and imagination makes space for injustice to thrive.
I did a media studies lesson plan on BTS, and now my algorithm thinks I'm ARMY 😅
I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.
I'm looking for texts/citations with definitions of "institution" from a critical communication / cultural studies perspective if anyone has any suggestions? I'm having a hard time finding any that are not from economics or sociology.
Revolutionary Dreams i used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these white folks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke and dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution
ALLOWABLES I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened
I met her once, when I was an intern at Seattle Arts & Lectures. I was too nervous to approach her, but she walked up to me and said, "Hello, I'm Nikki." Like I wouldn't know!!!
RIP Nikki Giovanni, an icon and a legend.
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Starting us off (after a cafe au lait and begniet break!) is Julie Feng on Creators for Gaza #NCACreatorsPrecon #NCA2024
via @pamenarpress.bsky.social
On Nov 29-30, presses, poets, writers, & translators will hold a 24 hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon.
Poetry knows no borders & can speak powerfully for the right to free expression.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...
Thank you!!! And thanks again for organizing the wonderful space for us.
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Julie presenting at the NCA creator prefon
Julie Feng starts off our final panel session of the day with a project on Creators for Gaza and activist networks. Grateful that this work is here at #NCACreatorPrecon. #NCA2024
Stickers that read "revaluing the creator economy" and "feminist media scholar" and a beaded friendship bracelet that says "NCA"
Kicking off with the #NCACreatorsPrecon at #NCA2024 🤳
This morning, I passed my general exams and became a Ph.D Candidate.
Now I'm hopping on a flight to New Orleans for #NCA2024!