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HOUSE ON FIRE: Baltimore as epistemology
This article was originally published in the UCI School of Humanities Magazine: Body & Wellness, Fall 2016. It was fall of 1968 when an electrical fire burned through the Baltimore slumlord apartment building my parents had recently moved into. My mom was six months pregnant and I was less than a year old. We got…
Feasting on Technologies of Recycling in the Jurassic: Repositories of Knowledge and the Desire for Minutiae and Exegesis, with the true account of a conversation with the Museum of Jurassic Technology’s progenitor and prognosticator, David Wilson.
Originally published in: Other Voices: the eJournal of Cultural Criticism, Volume 3, Number 1, May 2007. On the West side of Los Angeles in Culver City there sits an unassuming storefront at a bus stop on Venice Boulevard. There is nowhere to peer inside this small space to discern what goes on inside. The rug…
I AM A GUERILLA GIRL: Female Fandom and the Future of the “F” Word
Originally published in the Blaffer Newsline [Blaffer Museum magazine, Houston, TX, 2005] As young college students in the 1980s, my friends and I used our Sharpie permanent markers to graffiti sexist advertisements in the New York City subway. We inscribed confrontational questions to the male gaze that was being wooed by the ever-burgeoning culture industry.…
jeanne scheper, phd 