TRANS & GENDER DIVERSE HEALTH IN ALABAMA
WHAT IS THE PROJECT?
We are focused on learning more about barriers and facilitators to healthcare for trans and gender diverse people living in Alabama WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? We are looking to interview people who are trans and/or gender diverse living in Alabama WHAT WILL I DO?
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LIVING JUSTICE: COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, AND THE BODY IN THE EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF EMBODIED SOCIAL JUSTICE
What does living towards justice look, feel, and sound like in everyday life?
The UA Embodiment, Communication, and Health Open Co-lab (ECHO) is directing an ongoing collaborative project called Living Justice. Directed by anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Dr. Sonya Pritzker, the project aims to develop artistic, educational, and experiential as well as agentive materials depicting what living towards justice looks, feels, and sounds like in everyday life.
The project involves nearly 100 collaborators from multiple continents, all of whom are engaged in learning, teaching, or otherwise working to enact embodied social justice (ESJ) in in everyday life. Living Justice include several distinct components, including:
*Creating group Time Capsules aligns with our commitment to strengthening community and inviting vulnerable conversations about what it means to live towards justice from a range of different social and geographic locations. It is also consistent with the Time Capsule method in documentary film, where people throughout the world or in a specific locale contribute footage that is then threaded with contributions from others to provide many perspectives on a single period of time (as in the Life in a Day series).
Living Justice is ongoing (June 2022-January 2023). Check back here for more details!
The UA Embodiment, Communication, and Health Open Co-lab (ECHO) is directing an ongoing collaborative project called Living Justice. Directed by anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Dr. Sonya Pritzker, the project aims to develop artistic, educational, and experiential as well as agentive materials depicting what living towards justice looks, feels, and sounds like in everyday life.
The project involves nearly 100 collaborators from multiple continents, all of whom are engaged in learning, teaching, or otherwise working to enact embodied social justice (ESJ) in in everyday life. Living Justice include several distinct components, including:
- Conversation or “Interview”: This component includes a 60-90-minute conversation about new collaborators’ backgrounds understanding and experience of in/justice in the world; your experience of the relational and social worlds of embodied social justice; and the embodied practices that you rely on to sustain and uplift your work. It is also an opportunity for potential collaborators to become further acquainted with the research team and the project as a whole.
- Time Capsule: The Living Justice Time Capsule involves 3-5 days of reflective journaling using an intuitive app that allows collaborators to enter photographs, videos, audio-recordings, and/or text responses to a series of prompts as well as open-ended submissions about your embodied, lived experience during the time you are participating. It also includes three optional projects invite collaborators to record, photograph, and narrate specific features of their home, neighborhood, and/or workspace(s). There is, finally, a “consent” project that collaborators can open in order to record verbal consents from anyone you want to photograph or record (can apply to any of the other tasks or projects).
*Creating group Time Capsules aligns with our commitment to strengthening community and inviting vulnerable conversations about what it means to live towards justice from a range of different social and geographic locations. It is also consistent with the Time Capsule method in documentary film, where people throughout the world or in a specific locale contribute footage that is then threaded with contributions from others to provide many perspectives on a single period of time (as in the Life in a Day series).
- Physiological Monitoring: To be able to link particular moments during the initial interview as well as the Time Capsule to subtle shifts in physiological arousal and de-arousal, all collaborators will be invited to wear an Empatica wristband (the E4) for up to 60 hours during the Time Capsule. The E4 measures changes in certain electrical properties of the skin (EDA), reads peripheral skin temperature, and measures Blood Volume Pulse (BVP), from which heart rate variability can be derived. The E4 also includes an Event Mark Button that collaborators can use to tag events and link them to physiological signals.
Living Justice is ongoing (June 2022-January 2023). Check back here for more details!