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There's much to see here! As a proud Africana Studies student, student of the world and world traveler while Black, I've engaged in intensive historical analysis. This page is an accumulation of my work!
PREP FOR PREP HIGHLIGHTS ALUMNI FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2/28/2022 T
This Black History Month, several alumni shared their stories with us and reflected on what this month means to them. We congratulate them on their achievements and wish them success in their future endeavors! Meet some of these amazing alumni below.
In the summer of 2020, Gentle interned at Kunhardt Films’ Obama: In Pursuit of A More Perfect Union, distributed on HBO Max. The six-hour documentary series on Barack Obama focuses on the President’s personal story, set against the backdrop of the country’s racial history. Throughout the internship, Gentle completed 15 research projects on Barack Obama’s presidency and evaluated 100 events between 2008-2016 which assessed how implemented healthcare policies affected 30,000,000 Americans. Most impactfully, Gentle crafted 100 alternative ways to document Barack Obama and his policies to weave narratives that center decolonization.
As of Spring 2022, Gentle conducts personal and spiritual research for a senior thesis in ancestor reverence. Revering and invoking your ancestors in a world that wants them forgotten is an act of resistance. Through historical analysis, cultural analysis, and literary frameworks, Gentle explores what spiritual technologies were leveraged by enslaved Africans such that the descendants of enslaved Africans are still alive today? How do they offer us transcendence and salvation? How do we create spaces where black futures are protected, what are the conditions necessary, and what must our imaginations consist of where black future is achieved in our lifetime?
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DownloadGentle Ramirez is an Artist, Poet, Aquarius writer working through healing.
In the summer of 2020, Gentle interned at Kunhardt Films’s Obama: In Pursuit of A More Perfect Union, distributed on HBO. The six-hour documentary series on Barack Obama focuses on the President’s personal story, set against the backdrop of the country’s racial history. Throughout the internship, Gentle completed 15 research projects on Barack Obama’s presidency and evaluated 100 events between 2008-2016 which assessed how implemented healthcare policies affected 30,000,000 Americans. Most impactfully, Gentle crafted 100 alternative ways to document Barack Obama and his policies to weave narratives that center decolonization.
In the Fall of 2021 Gentle focused on repatriation in the context of the Old World, specifically in the lands, we’ve come to comprehend as Florence and Accra. Ultimately, using archival research as a response to an inner/outer/meta calling to a life of Blackness they’ve spent time at NYU thinking through the work of revolutionary comrades domestically and abroad.
Past research has centered on Black Urban landscapes, sociomusology- tracing the afro sampling and soundscapes through the New World, Black Twitter culture and community projects, double dutch, and determinantal child-rearing practices.
Gentle’s work also encounters and investigates race and reproduction, maternal-fetal conflict, the politics of Big Data, Ethical Ai, responsible machine learning, and surveillance software development. One of their many passion lies in a self-described riff of the Black Panther Party’s right to self-defense notably described as “Technological Self-Defense.”
Gentle challenges the traditional thought and framework personally and professionally by rewriting the stories of their own origin despite socioeconomic inequalities impact on their sense of self. They determine that they are who they are despite subjugation and struggle, not because of struggle.
Gentle also disrupts carceral geographies through solidarity with comrades who are incarcerated and unpacking the social construction of news, carceral geographies and the Covid-19 outbreak, sovereignty, discipline and punishment, abolition, and identifying scenes of subjugation in language and linguistics.
As of Spring 2022, Gentle conducts personal and spiritual research for a senior thesis in ancestor reverence. Revering and invoking your ancestors in a world that wants them forgotten is an act of resistance. Through historical analysis, cultural analysis, and literary frameworks, Gentle answers what spiritual technologies were leveraged by enslaved Africans such that the descendants of enslaved Africans are still alive today? How do they offer us transcendence and salvation? How do we create spaces where black futures are protected, what are the conditions necessary, and what must our imaginations consist of where black future is achieved in our lifetime? Lastly, they align all of their work from afro-futuristic-inspired imaginations sources Octavia Butler, Dubois, Garvey, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison. Gentle uses African American Vernacular English as a source of inspiration, creation, and connection.
Gentle's work appears in West 10th, and is anthologized in On Dystopia, On Joy, and elsewhere. A semifinalist at ACUI’s College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, and part of the 2019 NYU CUPSI Slam Team, Gentle has featured and hosted at Barnard’s Annual Sister Spit and featured in Say It Loud: A Showcase of Arts and Black Activism at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Additionally, they have also performed at Mercer Street: The Black Edition, Monday College Finals Bowery, The Nuyorican Cafe, The Hun School of Princeton, Bryn Mawr College, among other institutions. They have had poems featured on PoetNY, and Write About Now Poetry. Gentle is also a 2020 Finalist for the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Committee's Prize, a recipient of The Oluwatoyin Salua Freedom Fighters Grant (2020), and a New Jersey Poetry Out Loud Finalist. Gentle's work has been featured in NYUnited, Bryant Park Poetry, West 10th Issue No. 13, NYU Abu Dhabi Airport Roads Issue No. 12, The Columbia Spectator, The Providence Journal, poetry, Write About Now Poetry, Washington Square News: Arts, Alchemy Magazine, Davidson College’s Sankofa Journal, in anthologies and more.