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Pablo Picasso, Woman sitting on the beach
Essay
Hope Two Ways
By
Adom Getachew

Getachew reflects on two forms of hope: a deference to fate and fortune on the one hand, and an active prefiguration or performance of hope on the other.

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Essay
Being in Love
By
Claire Jarvis

For most of its short generic life, the novel has depended on marriage and childbirth as signs of sexual relationship, and has had a difficulty representing sexual life beyond marriage and childbirth without the assistance of figurative language. How do novels, especially those of D.H. Lawrence, represent sex?

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Journal Article
Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
By
Mel Y. Chen

Mel Y. Chen considers "toxicity" and "animacy" in the racializing and queering of bodies and sociality. Through a look at national panic in the US surrounding lead in Chinese-manufactured toys, an auto-ethnographic exploration of body, sociality and immunity, and other varied discussions, Chen probes social and object relationships amid material and bodily assemblages. 

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Graphic Designer: Sheena Lai
Intervention
Undocumented Emotion: Vulnerability and Writing About Undocumented Youth
By
Jennifer Nájera

I am sitting on my porch, talking on the phone to Anahí.[1] It’s Saturday, a perfect fall afternoon in Southern California, with the warmth of the sun cutting through the chill in the air. Because my kids and husband are home, this is the place where I can speak to her with some privacy. I imagine Anahí in the house that she has recently purchased with her brother just twenty miles from here. Maybe she is also sitting outside. It’s been a while since I’ve seen her.

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Journal Article
Queer Tactility: Same-sex Intimacies between Women in Chutney and Soca Music
By
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Preity Kumar

As a space, pop culture is an epicenter for queerness; music, especially, has a history of giving LGBTQ subjects representation, visibility, and an opening to be subversive. In this article, Ghisyawan and Kumar focus on soca and chutney-soca as music genres that engage in the complicated politics of queerness and queer desires.

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Seminar
Transformation in the Archives
By
Alisea McLeod
Cynthia McLeod
Bethany Nowviskie

Paper archives have long been foundational sources of data for humanities scholars–be these materials organized as logs and records or correspondences and various other writings, institutionally produced and preserved or recovered by other means. What are the risks and rewards of digital archives? What are our corresponding responsibilities–as archivists and scholars of archives in the digital era? What makes a digital data archive? What are their ethics in the new digital formats of accessibility and of preservation? Can we revolutionize the burdens that accompany past archives? This seminar addresses these pressing questions of archives in the digital era.

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Image by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Graphic design by Sheena Lai.
Intervention
Reflections on the Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, Shiyao Li, and Margy Adams
By
Lauren Klein
Tanvi Sharma
Shiyao Li
Margy Adams
Utsavi Singh

In a conversation with our editor, Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, Shiyao Li, and Margy Adams reflect on their digital humanities project at Emory University, Data by Design: A History in Five Charts. The co-authors reflect on visualizing difficult histories, and the unique ways in which digital humanities allows us to make arguments.

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Image Courtesy: The Met Museum. Graphic design by Sheena Lai
Thinking Together, Thinking Differently - Public Humanities
By
D. Venkat Rao

From time to time, Arcade publishes interviews, essays, and other statements by figures on the front lines of humanistic teaching outside the United States and Western Europe. These statements consider the settings in which the humanities are being discovered by a new generation of students; they share methods and approaches and speculate about the future of the disciplines. 

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