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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Concluding thoughts: Confederate flags, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, & the both/and of memory in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago
As someone who studies history, I’ve always been concerned with memory. And this class has memory at its center. It has allowed me to think of the ways that memory can represent a both/and. It reminds me that […]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to the “irony of aid”, providing aid within the colonialist context in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago
Neha recently made a caring blog post about the irony of aid, thinking about Jo Cosme’s tarot cards, the etymology of aid, and the essential lack of care in the U.S. response to Hurricane Maria, especially […]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Thinking about care; remembering Salvador in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about the article we read on prison abolition– “Free Us All”— and the lessons about care embedded into it. I don’t think it is easy for many to associate radical politics with care, partially because of the connotations associated with the word “radical.” Yet, this is exactly what is happening in the feminist and fe…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Global Connections: Invisible and Hypervisible Salvador in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
“This process of forgetting is essential to the social construction of the city, creating in essence two cities, a ‘visible city as much as an invisible city.’” –Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
If New Orleans is considered an Unfathomable City, then some anthropol…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Forgetting Typhoon Tip in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
By Matt Albanese, Noah Mazer, Tree McNulty, Isabel Owen, Melissa Rao, Don Rothwein, and Davina Ward
The Story of Typhoon Tip
The scientific knowledge for Typhoon Tip/Warling is extensive. According a 1980 article entitled “An Analysis of Super Typhoon Tip” by George Dunnavan and John Diercks, Tip is the most studied storm in recent memory. For…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to Christina’s post on sentinel species in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
A few weeks ago, Christina wrote a rich blog post about using the concepts of sentinel species and range to contextualize post-Katrina New Orleans as a “canary in the coal mine.” She discussed how what happened in New Orleans allowed for increased discussion on topics like climate change, the environment, and how our government reacts to…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post What happened to ACORN? Have we seen this before? in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
In class, we got our first glimpse of ACORN through Josephine Butler and her granddaughter, Tanya Harris. Both wore bright red T-shirts adorned with an ACORN symbol– a typical field uniform– as they were interviewed on a hot, bright day amid the destruction in the Lower Ninth Ward.
ACORN, which stands for Association of Community…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Catastrophes, wishes, and provision ground ideology in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
“…Catastrophe may reemerge from memory in the shape of a wish.”—Joseph Roach
I feel that this is a quote that we have not yet unpacked so deeply in class. Even so, this piece of Roach’s discussion on performance, autochthony, allochthony, and origins stuck out to me. Maybe it’s partially the elegance of the phrase: the juxtaposition of st…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post On the life and death of Muhiyidin Moye, Black Lives Matter activist in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
In February, 2017, Muhiyidin Moye leaped across police tape to remove a Confederate flag from the hands of a Demonstrator in Charleston, South Carolina– and it was captured on national live television. A prominent Black Lives Matter activist, Moye took an intersectional and local approach to his work, rising in protest in Mount Pleasant against…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Instruments for and against memory in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
“Echoes in the bone refer to not only to a history of forgetting but to a history of empowering the living through the performance of memory.” —Joseph Roach, “Echoes in the Bone”
I felt my most profound stirring at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem when I entered the Children’s Memorial. Eyes squinting from the sun soon entered…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen joined the group American Studies 6 years, 1 month ago
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Isabel Owen commented on the post, Comfort Zones, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 3 months ago
You bring up so many good questions, ones that I ask myself often. For the first part of your question about comfort zones, I would say not to overthink it. I’ve asked myself that a lot– but I think it’s […]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Martín Espada, poetry, activism, and a what does it mean to live as a poet? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 4 months ago
Last week, I had the awesome opportunity to attend the Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) Conference with a few of my fellow classmates. Lizzie, Meg, Sara, and I stayed in a super cozy B&B just outside of Philly. I could go on about this fancy Air B&B and its fancy water-saving toilet, but I would digress.
Something I began thinking…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Losing poems, & why do good poets get to use abstractions and I can’t in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 4 months ago
A few months ago, I received a great poem in my inbox. I get those every morning, thanks to my subscription to Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets (Plugging not because I’m getting paid but because Poem-A-Day is awesome. ) But, this poem took me a little.
I forgot what the poem was called, or who wrote it. I remembered that the poem…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen commented on the post, Seeking Poetic Signature, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 4 months ago
This is a question that I think about a lot. For me, my poetic style changes so much (at least to me) that I wonder if I even have a discernible “poetic style.” I agree with you that for our class, it is pretty […]
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Isabel Owen commented on the post, Full Stop Therapy for Disaffected Teens, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 4 months ago
Hi, Will-
Maybe I’m just trying to channel my inner Facebook aunt on this blog.
All my best,
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Isabel Owen commented on the post, Starting Anew: Looking at “The Greats” for the first time, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 5 months ago
Hey Meg–as we went over in class, I feel a lot of the same way about reading “the classics,” and I also find that my knowledge of poetry is lacking. Of course, we are probably underestimating both of ourselves. […]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post more on moments in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months ago
We’ve been talking a lot about the line as moment, but what should we do about the poetic moment overall? I mean to say– what do we do when we are struck with a moment of beauty, or sadness, or *insert other abstraction*– where do you go first?
There are deeper parts of my mind that I feel I am gaining access to lately, and they have an…[Read more]
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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Ríos and the “long line” as a moment in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago
Thinking about the line as a moment said exactly what I’ve been trying to articulate about poetry for a while. What draws me to poetry is something about the way that words and lines work as units that provide something intangible and sentient to me as a reader. For example, I’ve always been fascinated with the word “geography”—the way it looks,…[Read more]
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