Shawn Smith-Cruz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6345249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn Smith-Cruz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith-Cruz |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH-CRUZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lesbian Herstory Archives |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3532-7946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Witness Trees: Ken Gonzales-Day Re-surveys the US West
This essay proposes that Ken Gonzales-Day's photographic series Searching for California Hang Trees invites one to consider the larger ecosystems in which human violence takes place. Conceived as a performative memorial, the artist's photographs of trees locate a history of lynching in the California landscape, rooting it quite literally in the oak trees that were harnessed to its brutality. The essay situates the series within a history of lands…
Getting from then to now: Sustaining the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a lesbian organization
This article is a compilation of six narratives written by collective members of the volunteer-run Lesbian Herstory Archives, the oldest and largest collection of lesbian material in the world. Narratives draw on a yearlong series of conversations, which culminated in a panel discussion at the 40th Anniversary celebration. Authors' narratives detail the significance of the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a successful and sustainable lesbian organiza…
The Afterimages of Emmett Till
This essay considers Jason Lazarus’s photograph Standing at the Grave of Emmett Till, Day of Exhumation, June 1st, 2005 (Alsip, Illinois) as a meditation on photography, history, national memory, and mourning. It suggests that Lazarus’s enigmatic image provides a striking metaphor for the spectacle and absence that defined the postmortem photographs of Emmett Till that circulated in 1955. Those images communicated the horror of Till’s murder to a…
Living Our Lives through Their Words: Reflections on the Marathon Reading of Work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, November 17, 2012
Alexis Clements, Flavia Rando, Shawn(ta) Smith, Living Our Lives through Their Words: Reflections on the Marathon Reading of Work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, November 17, 2012, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013), pp. 261-269
A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange
A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange
(2003). A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange. Exemplaria: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 419-450
Getting from then to now: Sustaining the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a lesbian organization
This article is a compilation of six narratives written by collective members of the volunteer-run Lesbian Herstory Archives, the oldest and largest collection of lesbian material in the world. Narratives draw on a yearlong series of conversations, which culminated in a panel discussion at the 40th Anniversary celebration. Authors' narratives detail the significance of the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a successful and sustainable lesbian organiza…
A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange
A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange
(2003). A Society of One: Reading The Jew of Malta Through Serres's Theory of Exchange. Exemplaria: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 419-450
Living Our Lives through Their Words: Reflections on the Marathon Reading of Work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, November 17, 2012
Alexis Clements, Flavia Rando, Shawn(ta) Smith, Living Our Lives through Their Words: Reflections on the Marathon Reading of Work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, November 17, 2012, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013), pp. 261-269
The Afterimages of Emmett Till
This essay considers Jason Lazarus’s photograph Standing at the Grave of Emmett Till, Day of Exhumation, June 1st, 2005 (Alsip, Illinois) as a meditation on photography, history, national memory, and mourning. It suggests that Lazarus’s enigmatic image provides a striking metaphor for the spectacle and absence that defined the postmortem photographs of Emmett Till that circulated in 1955. Those images communicated the horror of Till’s murder to a…
Getting from then to now: Sustaining the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a lesbian organization
This article is a compilation of six narratives written by collective members of the volunteer-run Lesbian Herstory Archives, the oldest and largest collection of lesbian material in the world. Narratives draw on a yearlong series of conversations, which culminated in a panel discussion at the 40th Anniversary celebration. Authors' narratives detail the significance of the Lesbian Herstory Archives as a successful and sustainable lesbian organiza…
Witness Trees: Ken Gonzales-Day Re-surveys the US West
This essay proposes that Ken Gonzales-Day's photographic series Searching for California Hang Trees invites one to consider the larger ecosystems in which human violence takes place. Conceived as a performative memorial, the artist's photographs of trees locate a history of lynching in the California landscape, rooting it quite literally in the oak trees that were harnessed to its brutality. The essay situates the series within a history of lands…
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Reading (process (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)