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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girl in the center with hands grasping at the edges of a frame

But she has always desired Something. 

Brown crib on a green background with music notes on a curving staff

As the oldest of three kids, I was also my parents’ first child, making my origin story their origin as parents. 

Girl in the wind

Right now, you’re lying awake in some strange AirBnb in what feels like the middle of nowhere Vermont. 

dancing figures in Halloween costumes on a green background with yellow polka dots

Last minute Halloween costume ideas call for last minute solutions. Instead of turning to ultra fast fashion companies like Spirit Halloween, try using clothes already living in your closet.

Clashing sides of blue and red with jagged white stars

A house divided cannot stand; / I grew up in a house divided.

a bird carrying a letter

What story will I write, and who might tell mine? 

A library with shades of green, blue and red

18 year olds everywhere, in every decade, all the same. 

a garden

In our wide-ranging conversation, we discuss our favorite Spencer poetry and scholarship, Tessa’s path to becoming involved in the exhibition, and debunk some misconceptions about Anne Spencer’s work! 

Letter in a mailbox

What a fickle force change is! It sweeps you up in its waves, and before you know you’re moving, the sands shift, your feet lightly landing on different shores. 

A girl running

Pulling specific dates and times from my oft-used MapMyRun running app, I rework the statistics collected under “further data” into my own interpretation of the important info: how I felt, where I am in my life now, and where I’m trying to go.

a person meeting in the middle of multiple colored circles

I’m standing at the intersection of identity / Each piece of me yielding for another / But sometimes there’s a collision 

two figures in a forest

Stay here. Take a walk and watch / our steps fall into synchrony like an old dance / we used to know better than our own names.