#College course

[transx-mogai-cafe]

📚That Time There was a Transracial (Trace) College Course📙

Okay so I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole today and felt compelled to share my findings. I clearly remembered that, off the back of Nkechi Diallo's forcible outing as trace in 2015, a couple years later there was a smaller scandal related to a college course that delved deeper into this idea on an academic level. I remember thinking, even though at the time I was against being trace, that it would have at least been interesting to attend. There are only a few reactionary articles from mid-2017 reporting on it, as the course has been scrubbed clean from the website of the Rhode Island School of Design. But thanks to the power of the Waybackmachine, I was able to take a look at it!

The faculty who taught the course is named Joon Lee, a Korean-American queer transsexual! Unfortunately I still haven't been able to pinpoint if he considers himself trace in some way, although he appears to have in-depth studies on black feminism, so it's possible that's related in some way? Just pure speculation. Thankfully he still works there even though this particular course is no longer offered. Here's his website!

But what's interesting is that this wasn't a new course in 2017; I found the same class (although called something else) in a course list from 2009-2010 and even one as far back as 2005-2006!!!

I don't really have a conclusion to this little deep dive except I'm sad I wasn't born early enough to attend this class. 🫠 These are some really interesting concepts I'd love to see actually discussed metacontextually and it's upsetting this was being talked about as early as at least the mid 00s but then got roped into the tracephobic hype.

[bog-bitch]

y’all my anthropology class is about to read “Body Rituals Among the Nacirema” i am so hyped right now

[neliamricarte]

TP Integrador - Computación II | Lic. en Diseño y Comunicación Visual UNLa | 1° cuatrimestre 2023

La consigna consistía en diseñar un cuadernillo/revista de un total de 16 páginas, con el objetivo de ordenar y jerarquizar información en el género gráfico Revista, demostrar pericia en la instrumentación de aplicaciones de maquetación digital, demostrar haber incorporado modos de apropiación de retículas tipográficas, familiarizarse con aspectos funcionales y estilísticos de la tipografía, y experimentar con combinaciones tipográficas en tamaños display y texto.

El objetivo (más personal que de la consigna) fue crear un sistema y estética elegante y chic, intentando ir por colores vivos y llamativos, por lo que para trabajo, opté por una paleta de colores cálida, teniendo como color principal un magenta-rosado y como colores secundarios, y para general mini-sistemas en las dos notas, un naranja (nota personal) y un verde manzana claro (nota en honor a familiar). También, utilicé para los títulos y subtítulos fuentes serif, y para los distintos bloques de texto más extenso opte por distintas sans.

[hiding-all-the-bodies]

"We have enough knowledge here to be dangerous now" -- My Music Technology Professor, seconds after teaching us the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro

[cullen-blue23]

UAL Level 3/4 Foundation Dip in Art & Design Unit 1

This is a small collection of work from Unit 1, which took place over the first half of the term up to the end of October. This was very different from my previous course, which was pretty structured. I decided I wanted to do a course that was more experimental, using different media, and get used to being more messy and try and get out of my comfort zone.

From the start we were working in groups, collaborating and using different mediums. We went on couple of field trips and encouraged to go beyond the studio. I made some good friends, which helped my social anxiety a lot. I enjoyed all of the workshops, though some were more challenging than others. The installation stuff, 3D work and puppet making was tricky, but enjoyable. I really liked how my puppet turned out. My first attempt was a disaster and had to learn how to sew in a week, it was rapid learning curve. Making the Julian Robers dress was interesting, and I really liked working with my friends on this.

Overall, Unit 1 for me was pretty much almost everything I had hoped for. I've explored, I've experimented, I’ve gotten messy and pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Unit 2 is the Pathway stage, and I have chosen Narrative and Printmaking. Will try and post about that more frequently.

[cumscrotesailboat]

time is nearing to choose a college course and i have no idea what to fucking choose. My main motivator is money but my only interest rn is studying evolutionary biology which I heard is super hard to get a job with. Life is sucking rn

[futuretvperson]

Today, there was a talk discussing the project that we will be working on, we are tasked to make a series of short promotional videos celebrating the 850th Anniversary of the founding of Glasgow. This celebration is called “Glasgow 850”. We have been allocated to our groups, we have a What’s App group for the Project.

The second half of the day was focused on editing the work we did last week and practice working with sound.

[joneswebgoods]

Online Courses via EdX

If you're looking for some course work online, try EdX. They can connect you to some really good free courses online.

The goal of EdX is to provide everyone, regardless of location or financial situation, with increased access to high-quality education. In order to further its goal, this non-profit aggregates courses from some of the most prestigious colleges in the world and offers free audits to students. Because of its abundance of possibilities, solid history as a pioneer in online education, and affiliations to prestigious universities, EdX is our choice for the finest overall provider of free online courses.

I came here looking for some leadership courses I want to try out later this month.

You can visit their site at https://www.edx.org/

[buglaur]

[vaampiricdecay]

average research day

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was forced to read a Donald Trump autobiography for one of my college courses. It was just the plot of Boss Baby. He thought nobody would notice. 

[biology30scientificproject]

first day of senior year and i’m taking AP Initiation and there’s a big portion of the test called the promoter which starts off with our DNA sequence

[neliamricarte]

TP 4 Sistema teatro - Taller de Diseño II | Lic. en Diseño y Comunicación Visual UNLa | 2° cuatrimestre 2023

La consigna consistió en la realización de un sistema para el Teatro Cervantes, incluyendo y/o modificando el afiche anterior.

Teniendo en cuenta el afiche realizado posteriormente, opté ir a por una paleta también oscura con resaltes de luces para dar un estilo algo neón.

El sistema incluye:

Afiche institucional en tamaño A2

Programa/afiche doble faz tamaño A3

Postal tamaño A5

Dos pines

Corrección del afiche de la obra Camarín 19 para que encaje de mejor forma en el sistema.

Para el título se utilizó Averia Libre Regular, para el destacado de la fecha se utilizó Bebas Neue Regular, y para los demás textos se utilizó Celebes regular y bold.

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Bocetos descartados:

Paleta descartada:

Esta idea fue más diseñado con la idea de verano y carnaval, por ende la paleta era más colorida.

Afiche institucional

3. Flyer y/o post para redes sociales

4. Marcapáginas

Afiche descartado:

Originalmente iba a ser parte del sistema final, pero los colores no encajaban con la estética.

Posts para redes sociales:

[anonwyvern]

Taking a humanities class on monsters this semester, and the required textbook is absolutely wild on its takes of how the monster image relates to gender, sex appeal (yes indeedy) and how it can make us look within to the monster ourselves.

I’m taking a monster-fucking class. I’m getting paid to learn why I am the way I am. Thanks HUMAN25, you were an elective but now you’re my spiritual decoder.

The text, if you’re interested:

[lilianade-comics]

the face of a man who neither regrets his answer nor is aware of his imminent violent demise

[greenglowinspooks]

To be honest. DCxDP where the reason Danny meets the bats is Ace the Bat-hound

Like, just think about it for a second. Danny is in Gotham for college, or maybe he just moved out to find a city where having mad scientist parents isn’t actually that unusual.

He can see ghosts.

The ghosts know this.

Now he’s getting harassed left and right by spirits trying to get closure. Fine, whatever, most of them are a one-and-done type deal, and the amount of ghosts trying to get his help steadily decreases.

Except for this one very stubborn dog.

It just keeps showing up and leading him to crime scenes! He doesn’t know how many “anonymous tips” he can call in to the cops before they trace his phone! And this dog, this incredibly good boy, will not stop trying to help the city. He’s never met anyone with such a strong sense of justice, let alone a dog. Can dogs even have a moral compass?

And so Danny just accepts the fact that Ace isn’t going anywhere and becomes his reluctant sidekick/dedicated medium. He leans into the whole thing, dressing up in a mix of traditional magic-user attire and accessories that pay homage to the ghost dog.

He becomes somewhat well known. The psychopomp detective following around the shadowy figure of a German Shepard? That’s unusual! That’s weird! I mean, it’s not the weirdest thing in Gotham, sure, but he’s a new vigilante and he’s got a ghost dog that people can only see when it’s around him. Someone’s gonna notice.

Damian, as Robin, is the first to reach out to him.

Ace doesn’t know Damian but he does know a Robin, and while this isn’t his Robin, he’s still friendlier than usual. Danny’s panicking because oh god the bats are here and also is this kid gonna steal my ghost dog, Damian is absolutely delighted by Ace, and Ace is just happy to see a Robin again.

Damian decides that the psychopomp isn’t a danger to anyone, and there’s no reason to put this encounter into his reports, really, and perhaps Danny can help with some of his cases in the future.

Danny is sweating bullets because Damian basically tells him that he’ll keep him secret as long as he gets to play with Ace. Ace is happy that he’s finally getting some bat affiliated crime-fighting assistance.

And so, Danny is now both Ace AND Damian’s reluctant assistant. At least whenever he’s in trouble, he can always call a middle schooler to help him.

(Is Robin even in school? He’s out patrolling damn near every night, and he stays out late as hell. Does he have a bedtime? He should.)

Eventually it gets to the point where Damian is going over to Danny’s house. When he first sees it, he has a damn bitch you live like this moment, to which Danny responds that not everyone has the money to afford a nice place. Damian counters that he could at least take the time to clean up, and Danny replies that he’s working, going to school, and being a vigilante assistant to a ghost dog, something’s got to give.

Danny nearly has a heart attack when he checks his bank account the next day and sees that someone transferred him 10,000 dollars.

And so they get into a routine. Danny and Damian fight crime with Ace at night, and occasionally Damian stops by during the day to play with Ace and have Danny help with his homework.

(Damian is smart enough to do it on his own, but some of the instructions are written incredibly confusingly, and he would never admit to needing help to his family. Danny is just glad that the kid is in school and cares about his education, blissfully unaware that he’s basically emotionally adopted him.)

Damian is used to being in Danny’s company.

Eventually, when going over a case with the family, Damian absentmindedly remarks that he’ll have to ask Danny about some of the clues that they might be missing. Nightwing asks who he means and Damian makes a face like he just swallowed a lemon.

Cue shitstorm.

Who is “Danny?” Why is Damian willing to ask for help from anyone, much less someone outside of the family? Does he know who Damian is? Has Damian been compromised? What the hell is going on?

Damian now has to explain that Danny is the psychopomp with the ghost dog who he might have met hunted down while on patrol and conveniently not mentioned, but he’s not a bad person, really, and he lets him play with Ace, and he’s been quite helpful on certain cases due to his ability to talk to ghosts.

Bruce insists that the family meet Danny. Damian, hoping that he won’t just skip town the second he hears the news, relents.

Danny is surprisingly eager to meet the bats, considering his earlier fears.

Damian, blissfully unaware of what’s coming, sets a time and place to meet.

Once everyone is there, he gives Bruce the earful of a lifetime.

Robin is in middle school! Danny knows that there’s no way to stop the boy from going on patrol, but you could at least shift his schedule so he gets enough sleep on school nights! Does the Bat even know where he is half the time?! (No) And why isn’t he comfortable asking his family for help with both cases and homework? Did they ever even notice how much time he was spending at Danny’s house? If Danny was a bad person, he could have seriously hurt the poor boy! Shame on you!

Nightwing is mortified that Damian didn’t trust him enough to tell him about any of this. Red Hood is laughing his ass off, because yeah Danny is making good points but he’s also chewing out the literal Batman. Tim is recording the whole thing. Steph is delighted by the absolute gall of this Danger Twink™️, and already planning to add him to several groupchats. Damian is more embarrassed than he’s ever been in his entire life.

You, he points to Nightwing, did your academic life feel supported when you were a Robin? Nightwing is too stunned to speak. Red Hood, eternal shit-stirrer, says that oh, we all prioritized patrol over our education, that’s just how it is. Red Robin actually dropped out of high school to avoid distractions, did you know that?

Danny honest-to-god shrieks at this.

He finishes his angry rant and leaves, everyone too stunned to stop him.

And as it turns out, Tim wasn’t the only person recording the whole thing.

The entire internet is blowing up with Psychopomp The Danger Twink™️’s rant. People are taking sides. Things are getting messy. Red Hood literally admitting on-camera to previously being a Robin is somehow not the main focus here.

Eventually someone connects some dots from the video, as well as stories circling the internet about the psychopomp. A ghost dog named Ace, who is the literal only reason that the psychopomp is fighting crime at all, which seems incredibly fond of Nightwing and Robin.

A crime-fighting dog who wants constant attention from both the current and original Robin.

Oh my god, Ace the Bat-hound died and became a crime-fighting ghost.

And, somehow, that’s still not the strangest thing going on in Gotham.