The thing about magic schools, and maybe schools in general, is there will always be a villain. Sometimes they wear capes and have glowing red eyes and they're very obvious. Sometimes they're the quiet kid who has no friends with plans to blow up the school with everyone inside. At Hallow, their villain was Aiden. The truly scary thing about Aiden was she wasn't made to be a threat at all.Aiden is a witch, feared by her classmates, in love with her best friend - who may also be her...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles...

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