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Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, "Button Portraits."

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Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, "Button Portraits." Riggs says the project asks participants to not only learn about the history and causes behind the buttons, "but to embody them by wearing their symbols and participating in ongoing queer movements today."