{"666520":{"#nid":"666520","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Illuminating Atlanta\u2019s Queer History Through Buttons","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs found an innovative way to bring life to a collection of buttons that offer a window into Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s LGBTQ community in the 1970s. Riggs used digital storytelling techniques to pair each button with oral histories of two local queer activists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Buttons are important because not only are they signals of political and social causes, but they\u0026#39;re also identity signifiers,\u0026rdquo; Riggs said. \u0026ldquo;When you\u0026#39;re putting one on, you\u0026#39;re signaling something that you believe in or some part of your identity to another person, and this has historically been central to queer communities.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about Riggs\u0026rsquo; research, read \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/new-research-embodies-queer-history-through-artifacts\u0022\u003ENew Research Embodies Queer History Through Artifacts\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs wrote a paper on the research with Associate Professors Anne Sullivan and Noura Howell.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs wrote a paper on the research with Associate Professors Anne Sullivan and Noura Howell."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2023-03-07 21:48:04","changed_gmt":"2023-03-07 22:54:24","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"666519":{"id":"666519","type":"image","title":"Digital Media Ph.D. student Alexandra Teixeira Riggs paired buttons from a Georgia State University collection with oral histories from queer activists to shine a light on Atlanta\u0027s LGBTQ community in the 1970s.","body":null,"created":"1678225496","gmt_created":"2023-03-07 21:44:56","changed":"1678225496","gmt_changed":"2023-03-07 21:44:56","alt":"A selection of queer-themed buttons on a table.","file":{"fid":"252011","name":"buttons 48022572.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/buttons%2048022572.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/buttons%2048022572.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":144361,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/buttons%2048022572.jpg?itok=HcCTUYwd"}}},"media_ids":["666519"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tess.malone@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETess Malone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}