{"668020":{"#nid":"668020","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Celebrating Pride Month","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s Pride Month, and we\u2019re excited to celebrate with Ivan Allen College\u2019s LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff! There are plenty of events planned this month across campus, so check out the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/05\/celebrate-pride-month-georgia-tech?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Full%20Story%0A\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20June%206%2C%202023\u0022\u003Elist\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and get involved. In the meantime, we figured this would be a great time to take another look at the research project by Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, which examines the history of queer Atlanta through interactive wearable buttons. We also asked Riggs to answer a few questions about Pride and how it is reflected in this work:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EWhat does Pride Month mean to you?\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo me, Pride is important in the sense that we both recognize the histories of protest, resistance, and the tireless work of our queer ancestors, while also honoring queer joy, expression, and celebration. Though we have come far in our fight for equality, and we have many reasons to celebrate today, we recognize the ongoing spirit of resistance that will always characterize Pride. And in that resistance, we acknowledge this history, emphasized in \u201cButton Portraits\u201d\u2014 that queer and trans people have always existed. We continue building community, and we celebrate each other outwardly and openly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EHow do you think Pride Month connects to your project?\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cButton Portraits\u201d explores queer history using artifacts from the Gender and Sexuality Collections at Georgia State University. The experience centers on queer activists, Lorraine Fontana and Maria Helena Dolan, and uses replicas of their own buttons as vehicles through which to experience their stories. Listeners wear an audio guide and pin a button to their chest, which plays a corresponding fragment of either Fontana\u2019s or Dolan\u2019s oral history. These snippets range from descriptions of Atlanta queer landmarks, such as Charis Books \u0026amp; More and Piedmont Park to early Pride marches, protests, and social causes. As a direct link to Southern queer history, \u201cButton Portraits\u201d asks us not only to learn about these events and causes, but to embody them by wearing their symbols and participating in ongoing queer movements today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/new-research-embodies-queer-history-through-artifacts\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/new-research-embodies-queer-history-through-artifacts\u0022\u003Efull story\u003C\/a\u003E about Riggs\u2019 work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s Pride Month, and we\u2019re excited to celebrate with Ivan Allen College\u2019s LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It\u2019s Pride Month, and we\u2019re excited to celebrate with Ivan Allen College\u2019s LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff!"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2023-06-07 15:26:02","changed_gmt":"2023-06-07 15:36:04","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670940":{"id":"670940","type":"image","title":"Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, \u0022Button Portraits.\u0022","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, \u0022Button Portraits.\u0022 Riggs says the project asks participants to not only learn about the history and causes behind the buttons, \u0022but to embody them by wearing their symbols and participating in ongoing queer movements today.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1686151572","gmt_created":"2023-06-07 15:26:12","changed":"1686152224","gmt_changed":"2023-06-07 15:37:04","alt":"A student sorts buttons against a colorful rainbow backdrop","file":{"fid":"253913","name":"riggs.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/07\/riggs.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/07\/riggs.png","mime":"image\/png","size":566027,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/07\/riggs.png?itok=WGVpzT4Y"}},"670941":{"id":"670941","type":"image","title":"Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, \u0022Button Portraits.\u0022","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs examines buttons that are part of the research project, \u0022Button Portraits.\u0022 Riggs says the research project \u0022Button Portraits\u0022 asks participants to not only learn about the events and causes depicted by the buttons,\u0026nbsp; 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