Dear all, Never have I ever … had to figure out what to say to a courseful of students during a pandemic. It has taken me all week to think up what I am about to type here. Forgive me, please, my wordiness, and anything else that comes off as…

I have been wondering since the beginning of May about what to write to you in this, my final announcement for this course. …

This paper is about what motherhood means, in southern Mexico in the neoliberal present. I begin with what it could mean. It could mean Coatlicue, mother of the gods, the Aztec deity who birthed not only the moon and the stars but also Xolotl, god of lightning and of death…

Mexico City-based artists and others belonging to a small drawing group that is hosted each week by the arts entity Obrera Centro have begun publishing coloring books that can be downloaded for free. Volume 1 was released on March 25, 2020, and the 80-paged Volume 2 became available on April…

What this isn’t First, let me tell you what this article is not. This is not “9 Ways to Easily Transition to Working from Home” and this is not “23 Essential Tips…”. Further, this is not “How 5 Highly Successful People Transition from Work to Home.” The latter, a real article about real…

In place of an overview by me this week, here are students from University College London in 2014, presenting several problems of the #whitecurriculum along with some quick thoughts on solutions. In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, ’42 per cent did not…

PREFACE In the first Comic Lab of this course (W4), we began by sketching our responses to the prompt “Being an artist in 2019.” We then heard German comic artist Anna Haifisch reading from her book, The Artist, and later scrolled through that same work, which is her (often satirical)…

“Examples abound of the persisting social uses of art — as compensation for frustrations, as a symbolic way to draw social distinctions — but we have to look at the new roles of art that extend its activity beyond what has been organized as the art field. Other explanations, linked…

Discussion: Here, I am outsourcing the discussion in this lab to two very different, both very renowned thinkers about images and drawings — one from the arts, the other from the sciences. As you listen and read, think about what it means to see … and to help others to…