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Black, Queer, and Fabulous: Reclaiming Joy Through Fierceness

FREE SEMINAR JULY 17, 2025: In this conversation between Dr. David B. Green Jr. and Seutaʻafili Dr. Patrick Thomsen, they discuss the intersection of identity, music, acceptance, and resistance through the life course from childhood to adulthood.

Michael Boezi May 30, 2025

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Story Merging in Writing Biography: Learning from Léa Roback’s Advocacy and Activism

by Tara Goldstein

June 23, 2025

In Tara Goldstein's biography of her aunt Léa Roback, she uses a writing approach called story merging, where she recounts how her aunt's activism influenced her own educational and theatre activism.

Reverse Engineering as a Curriculum Development Process

by Michael Boezi

June 13, 2025

FREE SEMINAR AUG 7, 2025: In this conversation between Anne Cecil and Dr. Reham El-Morally, they discuss the practice-based pedagogy of starting with current trends and deconstructing their influences – not only to build connections between the past and present but also to encourage students to reflect on how historical cycles, subcultures, and innovations influence contemporary identities and cultural narratives.

Adaptive Clothing: Addressing Inequity in Fashion for People with Disabilities

by Susan Kolko

June 11, 2025

Although adaptivewear is a formally recognized category of clothing, it is not given much attention in fashion education programs. Adaptive clothing is often presented as a separate category and is not integrated into mainstream fashion assignments and educational collections. This can lead to a sense of separation that limits the visibility of adaptive clothing as a design and production opportunity for students.

Black, Queer, and Fabulous: Reclaiming Joy Through Fierceness

by Michael Boezi

May 30, 2025

What the United States Can Learn from Postwar Czechoslovakia

by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus

April 30, 2025

by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.