Ruiyu Liu

Dear Media,

A video letter to my 22-year friend. In my 22 years life hitherto, media weighs significantly in molding my identity through imposing steady and multifaceted influence on how I interact with the world and me myself: it’s the subject I study as the focus of my academic life; it’s the outlet I source information andContinue reading “Dear Media,”

“SMELL” the Baby-selling Black Market: True and What’s the next?

Petrified, I stared into the screen where a title alone was enough appalling when “baby” is followed by “for sale” with “black market” right behind. By Newsweek, the article “BABIES FOR SALE ON BLACK MARKET IN RUSSIA EXPOSED BY UNDERCOVER JOURNALISTS” centered a secret investigation conducted by a Russian journalist that probed into the baby-buyingContinue reading ““SMELL” the Baby-selling Black Market: True and What’s the next?”

Genderation X

Dreamy, in the original artwork “Venus Mansion”, artist Lee Sol framed Michelangelo’s male sculpture with a posing female model together within in a pop-magazine cover, constructing a compelling visual conversation between Renaissance art and Modern culture. Parallel to the artist’s spotlight on the tension between two poles of the gender binary, I also borrowed theContinue reading “Genderation X”

Déconstruction: Me and Media

We estimate that time spent with media this year by US adults (ages 18+) will average 12 hours, 9 minutes per day. Mark Dolliver (May, 2019) In the marketing class digging into contemporary media consumption, I was shocked by the fact that the average time US adults spent with media exceeds 12 hours. Logging myContinue reading “Déconstruction: Me and Media”

The Vulnerability of Reticence – Underreported Sexual Assault

“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny it.” ― Sue Campbell, Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars At the age of 6, when the prince put his lips onto those of sleeping beauty’s, I was introduced to the idea of ‘sexual relationship’Continue reading “The Vulnerability of Reticence – Underreported Sexual Assault”

Sleeping Beauties Wanted

The media… is indeed the Maleficent bewitching females into ‘Sleeping beauty’: being noiseless with a timeless beauty, ready to be glared at her glamor of the outside and comply with the omission of her voice from the inside. — Essie Liu Staring at the “wheel of identities”, I reiterate my daily routine of “social-positioning”, locatingContinue reading “Sleeping Beauties Wanted”