Rhee
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Margaret Rhee is a doctoral student in Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work is interdisciplinary, focusing broadly on issues of representation and axes of difference.
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Margaret Rhee is a doctoral student in Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work is interdisciplinary, focusing broadly on issues of representation and axes of difference. Her academic articles on sexuality, race, and representation have been published in 'Amerasia Journal,' 'Sexuality Research and Social Policy,' and forthcoming in the 'Journal of Homosexuality' and the anthology 'Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition.' As a HASTAC scholar, she co-hosted with Amanda Phillips (UCSB) “Queer and Feminist New Media Spaces” an online public forum for artists, scholars, activists grappling with issues of technology, new media, race, gender, and sexuality. "Queer and Feminist New Media Spaces" generated 152 comments and over 6114 reads and is archived indefinitely, at Hastac.org/scholars! She has worked extensively with non-profit media organizations such as the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, Berkeley Community Media, and the Center for Digital Storytelling.
Currently, Margaret serves as Project Manager and co-conceptualist for “From the Center” (FTC) a feminist based new media initiative from San Francisco Department of Public Health Forensic AIDS Project (FAP). FTC derives intimately from feminist based Participatory Action Research project, "Jailed Women and HIV Education: A Collaborative Investigation" led by Professor Jessica Fields (San Francisco State University) and Isela González (Forensic AIDS Project). Margaret served as a research assistant on JWHE during her MA work at San Francisco State University. Continuing JWHE's centralization of feminist praxis, "From the Center” focuses on constructionist learning and participatory arts, as incarcerated women of color create their own digital stories on HIV/AIDS prevention education, as educators, advocates, and storytellers of their own lives. Margaret was responsible for implementing FTC (2010), coordinating efforts of both FAP HIV prevention services and consultant organization the Center for Digital Storytelling, co-leading digital training, and ensuring project deliverables. She serves as lead representative for “From the Center.”
In addition, Margaret is a media artist and poet. As a video artist, her documentaries include, 'All of Me: Creating an Asian American Drag King Troupe, ' (2008) which was nominated for best documentary short at the Berkeley Community Media Film Festival, and screened at the ID Film Fest and Queer Women of Color Film Festival and other venues. Her co-directed short, “Homesick” won the AC Transit Webisode contest in 2008. Additional video work includes, short documented presentation of 'By the Grace of God,' (2008) which focused on formerly incarcerated women of color presenting research findings on HIV/AIDS in Chicago. 'By the Grace of God' screened in the San Francisco Jail and the Center on Research on Gender and Sexuality. Her current media projects include, 'This Raised Fist: A Cyborgian Tale?' which focuses on the animal-human-machine analytic by investigating the role of the hand and digital media in student protest. As a post, she has published her poetry in the 'Berkeley Poetry Review,' 'Back Room Live,' 'Altered Barbie: A Date With Barbie' and co-edited the chapbook anthology, 'Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Asian American Poets' (Achiote Press). Currently she is the managing editor of UC Berkeley English Department’s 'Mixed Blood,' a literary journal on avant-garde poetics and race, edited by C.S. Giscombe. Margaret is a Kundiman fellow (Kundiman.org), her first chapbook 'Yellow' is forthcoming from Tinfish Press (2011).
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