Judy Zhao

Judy Zhao
Media Staff

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Judy is a fourth year double majoring in Media Studies and Studio Art with a concentration in new media. They are interested in fandom media and relationships between properties and audience, as well as East Asian art and media. Outside of Iris, they are collecting jewelry, online shopping, and working on new media projects.

 

More Articles Featuring this Artist

golden fish and a letter

Letter from the Editor: Nostos

Let me tell you a story. 

Miriella Jiffar
graduation cap and gown

This is Our University: Part 1

What was the Golden Era of Black students here at UVA?

Simone Minor
a small yellow bird on a blue, cloudy, and windy background

hometown's reprise

do you see that bird? the songbird. the one perched on top of that willow oak. right there.

Lindsey Smith
two sheets of colorful fruit stickers on an orange and white background

I Think About (Modeled after Joe Brainard’s “I Remember”)

I think about how quickly the weather changes.

Ella Powell
a brown and shadowy forest feauturing a buck whose antlers are shedding staring directly at you

An Afternoon at Deception's Pass

Deception’s Pass State Park is quite beautiful, but it also has an eerily haunting quality.

Ella Powell
blue water with gentle waves

Shutters of Water / Studies of Water

I dream of the stars as I stare at the sun,

Simone Minor
three women hold hands in a circle, with floating pink flowers surrounding them

The Luckiest Little Sister

My sisters have always been my best friends.

Jackie Bond
a snail holding a letter in yellow grass.

Letter from the Editor: Uncharted

Our writers venture deep into the unknown

Miriella Jiffar
two orange and yellow figures in the glow of a warm orange sun, one a man sitting and the other a woman standing to his right

Showing Someone Your Favorite Movie

This is what watching the Before trilogy of movies feels like to me, and this is what it feels like to watch them with someone else. 

Grace Traxler
the back of a the dark red figure of a woman hanging her head facing something bright in the distance

Thyroid Case Study

She looks in the mirror and every week seems to feel extra weight digging into her heels. The pressure overflowed from her shoulders onto her chest. 

Simone Minor
pink and yellow collage with a sparkling yellow hand above the yellow silhouette of a woman's torso, with the text of Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" on the background

Dangerous Woman

It is ingrained in us that incessant work is essential and rest is a luxury. But where does this mindset come from? 

Bailey Middleton
hand on an letter

Letter from the Editor: Body | Disembodied

This latest edition of Iris is urgently interested in all things "Body and Disembodied".

Miriella Jiffar