“Natalia Cecire queried the implicit neutrality of a term like “nerd.” Melissa Harris-Perry’s reclamation aside, the racialized and gendered aspects of nerddom, and by extension the digital humanities, offer opportunities for a more explicit engagement with positionalities that lead “white men to feel embattled.”
Bailey et al. “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave,” in Digitial_Humanities (Journal of Digiital Humanities, 2011)
- I chose this quote because it grabbed my attention at the beginning of the article and interested me in reading the rest. I would define myself as a nerd, and the racialized aspects of nerddom have always interested me, and I have always been a part of them. So, I was interested in what the article had to say about it in this space.
- I am very into comic books and all things like superheroes, and the discussion of race and gender has always been a huge topic in that space, and nerds in that area often argue about it. I have partaken in these arguments multiple times.
- I have always been interested in 3D modeling and 3D printing; I have just never had the time to get into it like that, so I am very excited to hopefully get into that a little more; with 3D printing and modeling, you can pretty much make anything you want your imagination is the limit you can make swords, masks, and trinkets from all your favorite books, movies, and tv shows so that is why I am excited to learn more about it.
