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.

 

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sharks on the bottom of a pool

where i come from, there are sharks in every lake

the heart and other organs

I must feed my body and soul

two images of FKA twigs, a brown woman with intense smokey makeup and many piercings, one of which shows just FKA twigs's face and the other shows her crouching down

Out of all the creative minds I could have selected to illuminate the essence of love, I had to choose the metaphysical poet, John Donne, and contemporary singer, songwriter, producer, and performer, FKA twigs.

Two figures watch a TV on a couch in a drab living room. The TV shows, in bright and vibrant colors, Chappell Roan's Grammy performance in which she rides on a giant pink pony

I was not sure what to expect from a class called Pleasure Activism Across Time, but having taken a class with its professor, Lisa Speidel, before, I knew I was in good hands. 

A pair of orange hands doodles blue flowers on a notebook with the word Iris in the corner

Despite how crucial the art is to the storytelling that we do here at Iris, we rarely get to hear directly from our artists.

three women in different yoga poses on a yellow striped background

Bailey Middleton, fellow Iris writer and fourth-year at UVA, knows a thing or two (or six) about staying calm in the midst of chaos.

a figure in a teal graduation cap with blue scribbles for a head with a background of orange and blue, with more blue scribbles

To keep myself (and others who feel the same) sane, I’m proposing six steps to keep us grounded as we ease into what comes next.

a sad blue figure lays on the floor writing a letter, as pages of writing fall around her on a background that transitions from pink to orange

when I was in middle school, my friends called me “the one that’s on the floor” because at sleepovers, they shared the bed and made me sleep on the floor (go ahead, laugh).

a pair of legs wearing white converses walking across a field of grass with blue skies and puffy white clouds in the background

I was once one of those silly, “why go on a walk when you can go on a run” people. One of those, “shut up about your hot-girl walks” people