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Collapsing the space between “human” and “nature” which is a colonial divide, making way for the truth which is that we are simply reflections and mirrors of each other.

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Crayons and markers on medium weight drawing paper.

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In Your Closet: Maya Henry's Wardrobe Expresses Fluidity and Tells History

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In Your Closet: Maya Henry's Wardrobe Expresses Fluidity and Tells History

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My interview of a student's style, their influences, and how it relates to their identities.

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In Your Closet: Maya Henry’s Wardrobe Expresses Fluidity and Tells History — voices

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The foggy day and imminent finals do not deter Maya Henry ’20 from wearing a vibrant outfit filled with color and life. A senior from South Brunswick, New Jersey studying Education, History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Black Studies, Henry is a whirlwind of energy and talent. Henry opened up i

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The Transformation of Indigenous Igbo Artforms (2022)

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The Transformation of Indigenous Igbo Artforms (2022)

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This art is born out of my experience of being othered, a perpetual foreigner in the West, marked by my difference—my Blackness, queerness, disabilities, class, and first generation status.

"Space Ambassadors" unsettles the ideas of “normal” (the assumed default) and “foreign”/“alien” (which must become normal via assimilation). All too often, to be different means to be a target. The Space Ambassador series rewrites this narrative through performance.

The interactions between the characters demonstrate that difference does not have to result in harm or othering. The benign and even silly connections happen because of, not despite, difference.

Difference makes way for connection.

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Markers and ballpoint pens on medium weight drawing paper.

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Double I E (As I Am Is Enough) is a Igbo and Efik-Ibibio Afro/Africanfuturist from the future and the past, co-creating the present. Xe is a recent graduate from Swarthmore College, where he special majored in Black Studies with a concentration in Religion, and minored in Gender and Sexuality Studies. In his senior year, xe was a recipient of the Black Cultural Center Director's Special Recognition Award and the Social Justice Award in the category of LGBTQ+ Activism.

Double I E is both here and elsewhere, probably frying and eating plantain while conjuring from and beyond the edge of the end of the world.

You can contact Double I E at praiseidika735@gmail.com.

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Poster created by Swarthmore College's Administrative Coordinator, Cheryl Sharp.

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Fundraised $16,000 and spearheaded event planning efforts to host world-renowned Black queer disabled author and artist Akwaeke Emezi.

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Poster created by Interfaith Intern Fiona Stewart.

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Hosted a student dinner conversation on Race, Queerness, and Faith.

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In this world of ‘you’s and ‘me’s we must endeavor to remain a ‘we’

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In this world of ‘you’s and ‘me’s we must endeavor to remain a ‘we’

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Beginning to Dance: the beginning of a gift 

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Beginning to Dance: the beginning of a gift 

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Crayons and markers on medium weight drawing paper.

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Poster created by Interfaith Intern Fiona Stewart.

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Fundraised for and facilitated a conversation with Juju Bae, a well-established Black queer podcast host and hoodoo practitioner.

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Markers and ballpoint pens on medium weight drawing paper.