For my exhibit, I ended up picking the Shirley Chisholm display, but more specifically Shirley Chisholm’s Address to the Conference of Black and Latino Women in 1977. Although the voting machine and the display of her speech were both very captivating, I thought the blown up text of a portion of her speech, presented in both English and Spanish, was very encompassing of who Shirley Chisholm was as a person. To see radicalism in more than one language while being right next to each other is interesting, as it means the fight for change is not isolated to only English speakers, but instead brought to those who are Latino, too. …

The musical Suffs on Broadway does a fantastic job of representing the fight for women’s suffrage by only having female actors even when representing male figures, and not glossing over injustices that occurred during the fight for the right to vote, highlighting the importance of intersectionality.  Two characters that were extremely important in the play were Woodrow Wilson and Dudley Malone, both being played by women and one of them being played by a Black woman. The usage of female actors, specifically when depicting Woodrow Wilson, allows for comedic irony to happen, which engages the audience better by lightening the mood, while also showing the hypocrisy of the ideologies that…

Part 1: Analysis The photo I chose was of the landscape between 13th and 16th street. I chose this image because I think it displays a lot of the High Line’s character and shows the intentionality that everything is placed with. The first major aspect of this picture is the huge, grey, industrial building; it has a very rectangular shape, composed of grey bricks with rigid corners, the details shown throughout the building being various lines made to provide separation between columns and windows. The windows are large, almost factory-like, and are representative of the historical neighborhood that the High Line is located in. By submitting to the theme of…