by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
Introduction In fall 2024, as part of the Eugene Lang College’s Social Science Fellowship, I interned in the curatorial department at the Museum of the City of New York. One of my responsibilities involved sourcing archival images for the Urban Stomp: Social Dance in...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
“Is that 16th Street? Where it turns into César Chávez?” Rigo asked his teacher.1 She nodded, and he continued to inspect the projected photos. “That one—Crazy Jim’s—there’s still a car dealership there. My uncle used to work there.” Another student chimed in. “You...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 10, 2025
A Tohono O’odham clay pot spins around, sending drawings of traditional basket dancers aswirl; these figures step off the “friendship jar”—transforming into a 360 view of actual dancers as the sounds of a rattle and singers float into your space. As you watch, you...
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...
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