by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community. –bell hooks...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
The Crystal Book (El Libro de Cristal) is a multilingual, transmedia comic developed as both a powerful story and an adaptable teaching tool. The project emerged from my doctoral dissertation, Hero Genesis and Crisis: Comic Books and Identity Formation in...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
A selection of zines made by students in GNS 210. The front cover of a zine created by London Huser, an MFA graduate student at UW-Madison. Originally from Oklahoma, Huser creates art that explores themes of home, mass production, foodways, regionalism, and more. Her...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 9, 2025
So, during the project, my role was really to just be a helper and to also do some taping and talking, interviewing the adults of that generation, my parents, uncles, and the leaders in the community. And I think the greatest thing was that, for me, is to see...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 3, 2024
The sheepherder watched his flock by day, traveling many miles while the sheep grazed on the range. As his flock pastured, he sat on a rock or on his coat; he whittled some object or composed songs of poetry until it was time to move the flock to water or better...
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