The Mott Street Menagerie

A series of 71 images comprising a ‘musical’ subset of a larger series: 'the labyl poems’

'lake labyl - the swimmers’: a sound-gif comprising the series’ final 17 images, in which the movements of two swimmers, and the environments in which the swimmers move, are informed and accompanied (both retrospectively and prospectively) by Rachmaninov’s symphonic poem Die Toteninsel.

The four most common sounds roosting bats make at each other are apparently:

Disputes over food

Disputes over roosting position

Disputes over “unwanted male advances”

Educational Contexts and Queer Identity Psychology Study (ECQIPS) is an ongoing series of psychological studies being conducted at the University of Michigan by Ben Blankenship, a doctoral student in the Personality and Social Contexts area of the psychology department at UM. Our team is interested in studying the effects of educational contexts on individuals’ identity development, as well as the effect of identity on academic outcomes within these contexts. Our studies are specifically interested in Queer identities and positionalities, but we are also interested in the effects of intersecting identities (race, social class, gender, etc.) on similar outcomes and in similar contexts.