Deanna Chappell Belcher
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (with thanks to Tuck & Yang (2012)
Inspired by Tuck & Yang’s 2012 article, and my ever-increasing knowledge of my new-ish Pacific Northwest home, and by an old atlas I got at a garage sale somewhere, I made the above collage-and-plexiglass piece, then spontaneously entered it into the “Stand Up, Stand Out, Empower!” art contest sponsored by the University of Oregon Libraries, where it won “Best in Show.”
Not Healthy for Children
(Ode to Lorraine Schneider, 1966)

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