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1 month ago | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
17 participants gathered at the University of Michigan Kinesiology building Tuesday evening for an Empowerment Self-Defense workshop. The workshop was presented by the Division of Public Safety and Security and was hosted by Candace Dorsey, the Empowerment Self-Defense program manager. It included a demonstration of physical self-defense techniques, an opportunity for attendees to practice the skills and an open discussion on self-defense topics.
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1 month ago | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
The University of Michigan Museum of Art opened their newest exhibition “Strange You Never Knew” Feb. 1, reflecting on the Asian-American diaspora, family and identity. Chinese American artist Jarod Lew’s first solo exhibition is composed of three series of photographs and a multimedia installation. The exhibit opens with Lew’s photo series “Please Take Off Your Shoes,” which includes portraits of second-generation Asian Americans in their parents’ homes.
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1 month ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Sophie Frank
The exhibit opens with Lew’s photo series “Please Take Off Your Shoes,” which includes portraits of second-generation Asian Americans in their parents’ homes. The series’ title refers to the widespread practice in Asian culture of removing one’s shoes before entering a home. These photographs highlight the dual identities the second-generation community must navigate, often believing that they are perceived as “American” by their immigrant parents but “Asian” outside of their domestic spaces.
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1 month ago | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
More than 50 University of Michigan students gathered at the Michigan Union Thursday evening to attend “Culture in the Courtyard: Black History Month.” The Center for Campus Involvement and the Public Health Students of African Descent hosted the event, which featured a teach-in covering the history of the Black Action Movements at the University of Michigan, various activities for community building and a free dinner.
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2 months ago | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
After 50 years of business, Ann Arbor art gallery and store 16 Hands will permanently close its doors April 19th, 2025. Founded in 1975, 16 Hands was originally founded as a collective of eight local artists working to create a space to exhibit their works in Ann Arbor. Jill Damon joined the cooperative in 1978, taking on the role of owner in 1988.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
specials.michigandaily.com | Ji Hoon Choi |Chiara Dettin |Violet Boyd |Sachi Gosal |arielle levine |Sophie Frank
November Class SpotlightsThe University of Michigan offers 3,000 courses across all colleges, making it impossible for students to know every class they can take while on campus. For November, which is Native American Heritage Month, The Michigan Daily’s Academics beat chose to spotlight four classes centered around Native American studies. The previous course spotlights can be found here. The Michigan Daily News Staff can be reached at [email protected].
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
NATIVEAM 310: Stereotypes and Native Languages is a Native American Studies and the Social Sciences course that explores how stereotypes about Indigenous communities affect how their languages are perceived and analyzed. The class fulfills the LSA social sciences distribution requirement and is cross-listed as AMCULT 310: Topics in Ethnic Studies and LING 303: Social Science Topics in Linguistics. Cherry Meyer, Native American studies assistant professor, is currently teaching the course.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
michigandaily.com | Sophie Frank
The 2024 A2 Community Bookfest drew vendors, booksellers, authors and publishers throughout the day Sunday for the 20th year. Previously known as the Kerrytown BookFest, the annual event used to be held outdoors at the Kerrytown Farmers Market. This year marks a change in venue. Rather than bundling up for the cold November weather, attendees came inside the Ann Arbor District Library for a vendor fair, author signing tables, hands-on crafts and keynote speaker talks.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
hercampus.com | Sophie Frank
Ask members of Gen Z what radicalized them and you’re likely to get a lot of media-related answers, especially 2010s dystopian books. When I was in the throes of my dystopian phase, nothing felt more like a cheap attempt at infiltrating the genre than Scott Westerfield’s Uglies series. I was shocked when only recently I learned that it was actually released years before the YA dystopian genre’s crown jewel, The Hunger Games.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
hercampus.com | Sophie Frank
This article started as an analysis of online fandom culture in 2024, inspired by the cultural critic Kaitlyn Tiffany’s book Everything I Need I Get From You. In the book, Tiffany explores how the identity of “fan” came to be, with self-identified fans—a predominantly female and queer demographic—being a continually misunderstood and derided population that has nonetheless been shaping our culture from the unacknowledged shadows.
