{ "nodes_details": [], "edges_details": [ { "semantic_edge_key": "randolph public school → school bus-based mobility, organizes school experience bus travel", "edge_descriptor_key": "randolph public schools → school bus based mobility, organizes school experience around bus travel", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "okay so i went to every public school basically that randolph offered from like kindergarten up to like high school in terms of friend groups its funny because i also went to college local too i wound up go to bridgewater state and it seems like from kindergarten all the way up to college i was always on a bus i so i was always kind of like leaning into the community to kind of like move us around", "contextual_description": "Randolph public schools are described in a way that directly depends on bus travel, so the institution node drives a pattern where attending those schools is inseparable from being “always on a bus.”", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "diasporic long-term friend group → heather early art patron, provides early social base art", "edge_descriptor_key": "diasporic long term friend group → heather as early art patron, provides early social base for art support", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so my friend groups were typically kind of similar to me like diasporic and my other friends im still friends with from middle school to high school and to to now and theyre i dont know how else to describe them theyre just good people and they come and support my shows so my best friend heather i kind of wanna say like shes kind of one of my first patrons and then when she went to college she asked me to make her something so shed have art on her wall", "contextual_description": "The diasporic long-term friend group forms the social base that includes Heather, who becomes an early art patron, so the group node supports and feeds into the patron node.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "afterschool americanization activity → parental prodigy expectation, triggers parental demands genius-level performance", "edge_descriptor_key": "afterschool americanization activities → parental prodigy expectations, triggers parental demands for genius level performance", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "that was a very like in an attempt to get me to be more american i did ballet and swimming and what else piano and then my parents turned and were like why arent you a a genius why arent you a professional pianist and im just like i dont know i just it just didnt stick", "contextual_description": "The afterschool Americanization activities lead into parental questions about why she is not a genius or professional, so the activities node causally elicits heightened parental expectations.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "buddhist temple dorchester → vietnamese community randolph, supplies early external community local", "edge_descriptor_key": "buddhist temple in dorchester → vietnamese community in randolph, supplies early external community before local vietnamese community grows", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "my parents got into my mom got into buddhist temple stuff then going out to dorchester to be part of the vietnamese community randolph didnt have a big blooming vietnamese group community until i finally graduated high school and college so im loving that its growing now its so much bigger than when i was a kid", "contextual_description": "The Buddhist temple trips to Dorchester provide an external Vietnamese community in the absence of a strong local one, setting up a contrast with the later growth of the Randolph Vietnamese community.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "isolated mcmansion north main → school bus-based mobility, creates physical isolation forces walking", "edge_descriptor_key": "isolated mcmansion on north main → school bus based mobility, creates physical isolation and forces walking instead of bus use", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and when we moved there it was a mcmansion it was during like the rent the real estate bubble it was far from everything so i was on the other other side of north main street no buses no way to leave it really and i used to walk to my job at a restaurant on the other side of like a whole bunch of other houses", "contextual_description": "The isolated McMansion directly removes bus access, pushing her away from bus-based mobility into long walks to reach work.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "bus-accessible north main apartment → local college access transit, enables bus train commute college", "edge_descriptor_key": "bus accessible north main apartment → local college access through transit, enables bus and train commute to college", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "we moved back to north main street but on the other side of the street and when i moved there there was a bus assessable and thats how i got to college i took the bus to the train to get to college", "contextual_description": "The bus-accessible apartment on North Main directly makes the bus–train route possible, thereby enabling local college access as a practical reality.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "underfunded school transit policy → school bus-based mobility, reduces reliable school transit options", "edge_descriptor_key": "underfunded school transit policy → school bus based mobility, reduces reliable school transit options", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "the buses got taken away when i was in high school for you know budgeting reasons which is horrible when looking back now but there was one city bus one boston city bus that would take students in and the students were almost always late", "contextual_description": "Underfunded policy cuts buses and leaves only one unreliable city bus, thereby degrading school bus-based mobility.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "underfunded school transit policy → local college access transit, threatens fair educational access students", "edge_descriptor_key": "underfunded school transit policy → local college access through transit, threatens fair educational access for students without car support", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and then they would penalize the students for being late but its like its the buss fault its not the students fault they dont have parents to drop them off so why are we penalizing these kids", "contextual_description": "Punitive attendance practices built on inadequate buses threaten educational access for those relying on public transit rather than car-owning parents.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "randolph central four-way intersection → school bus-based mobility, concentrates bus access single landmark", "edge_descriptor_key": "randolph central four way intersection hub → school bus based mobility, concentrates bus access at a single landmark intersection", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "whenever there were a lot of cars thats when you knew you were towards civilization so you just kind of aimed for where the cars were the big big like randolph intersection and downtown area is where you knew like where civilization was where you needed to get like the bus to go to the mall the bus to go to the city and ashmont", "contextual_description": "The central intersection is a key node that gathers traffic and concentrates bus access, making it a spatial gateway to bus-based mobility.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "jamaica plain apartment transit → citywide mobility flexibility, provides dense transit options citywide", "edge_descriptor_key": "jamaica plain apartment as transit hub → citywide mobility flexibility, provides dense transit options and citywide mobility flexibility", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "this location is just so key near like two orange line commuter rail all of these buses it looks like a keno board when you look on the train just all the different lines that i could take to go anywhere if i needed to", "contextual_description": "The JP apartment node gives rise to a felt capability of going “anywhere” via overlapping lines, so housing here drives a strong sense of mobility flexibility.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "allston walking-based city learning → citywide mobility flexibility, expands city knowledge reach walking", "edge_descriptor_key": "allston walking based city learning → citywide mobility flexibility, expands city knowledge and reach through walking instead of waiting for transit", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "with my partner at the time they really liked to walk so we just kind of wandered around a lot and learned how to get to places walking it just kind of bounced out that we learned more about the city from walking and not taking the tea", "contextual_description": "The Allston walking-based strategy feeds into the same broader mobility flexibility node by broadening her internal map of the city without relying solely on transit lines.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "heather early art patron → analog collage handmade art, commissions early analog art validates", "edge_descriptor_key": "heather as early art patron → analog collage and handmade art, commissions early analog art and validates artist identity", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so my best friend heather i kind of wanna say like shes kind of one of my first patrons and then when she went to college she asked me to make her something so shed have art on her wall", "contextual_description": "Heather as an early patron drives the creation of analog pieces and reinforces her self-concept as an artist whose work belongs on others’ walls.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "analog collage handmade art → digital glitch-based art practice, transitions material practice analog digital", "edge_descriptor_key": "analog collage and handmade art → digital and glitch based art practice, transitions material practice from analog to digital media", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she came to my first art show at jp licks i had an ice cream art show and she came out for that and that was when i was doing analog still and i wanna say the leap into digital happened a little like a few years after a few years after i started mit so it wasnt that like i completely dropped painting in my tools its just that it changed to be more accessible and applicable to like certain spaces", "contextual_description": "The analog art node leads into a digital practice node as she gradually shifts tools and materials to be more accessible and suited to available venues.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "new bedford revalued historic → citywide mobility flexibility, offers alternative coastal hub warm", "edge_descriptor_key": "new bedford revalued historic coastal town → citywide mobility flexibility, offers an alternative coastal hub with warm water and rich history", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "wed go to new bedford and the waters warmer than anywhere else in massachusetts and they have like insane historical buildings like the whaling museum and then they have like frederick douglasss like home i think or maybe where he was working from and like just really weird history", "contextual_description": "New Bedford becomes another place she can and does travel to repeatedly, providing a distinct coastal node that enriches her sense of regional mobility and attachment.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "embodied winter shoveling hardship → winter survival-based regional identity, drives survival-based framing regional identity", "edge_descriptor_key": "embodied winter shoveling hardship → winter survival based regional identity stance, drives survival based framing of regional identity and later self correction", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i just remember every year im like i dont remember how to do this and then my bodys just in pain you know like head to toe youre numb and then youre shoveling seven feet of snow just up in the air hoping it lands somewhere i dont trust people from the west coast sometimes because they never have to survive a winter and then i i think thats when i realized like im being too critical i need to just chill out theres people who probably live in a desert and i dont understand that", "contextual_description": "The bodily hardships of shoveling snow feed directly into a survival-based identity stance about winter, which she later partially revises after reflection with her therapist.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "randolph public school → local college access transit, channels local schooling trajectory nearby", "edge_descriptor_key": "randolph public schools → local college access through transit, channels local schooling trajectory into nearby college attendance", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "in terms of friend groups its funny because i also went to college local too i wound up go to bridgewater state and it seems like from kindergarten all the way up to college i was always on a bus", "contextual_description": "The Randolph school system leads into a trajectory of local higher education, with nearby college attendance emerging from the same geography and transit patterns.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s01_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "racialized academic microaggression → mixed white passing identity, intensifies mixed identity uncertainty", "edge_descriptor_key": "racialized academic microaggression → mixed and white passing identity ambiguity, intensifies mixed identity uncertainty", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "at one point he graded my paper and he told me like wow well your english is good for where youre from so just you know focus on your grammar or something like that cause i get it our public school systems kind of whack we had accreditation problems but like how do you know that and then i realized like oh its because he hes seeing me as asian and thats where im like i sometimes i clock as asian for people and then when im in asian community theyre like thats thats a white girl so i dont really know where i am a lot of the times", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the racialized academic microaggression at Bridgewater catalyzes her awareness of being read differently in various contexts and deepens her uncertainty about mixed and white-passing identity.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "green line pickpocket stereotyping → pickpocket painting artwork, transforms stereotyping incident into artwork", "edge_descriptor_key": "green line pickpocket stereotyping incident → pickpocket painting artwork, transforms stereotyping incident into artwork", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and then i took a train i took a green line because i still remember this and i i was wearing my like backpack i like my art supplies and this guy was like im not gonna stand near you you look like a pickpocket and i was like because i have paints and so like i named a painting at one point i think it was like postmodern i forget what i call it its postmodern reflection of pickpocket", "contextual_description": "This edge links the Green Line stereotyping event to the “postmodern reflection of pickpocket” painting, highlighting a process of encoding the harmful encounter into artwork.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "search community boston little → online asian artist instagram, extends community search online asian", "edge_descriptor_key": "search for community in boston and little korea → online asian artist and instagram network, extends community search into online asian networks", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so its just things like that where im like i didnt realize that people dont have that awareness of like me being othered all the time and so moving into the city i thought like okay its a big metropolitan area they also call austin little korea at that point so i thought i would be less othered there and i just didnt really click with anyone it was me hanging out with my other transplant white friends too somewhere from maine somewhere from new bedford so i was just very like is there a point in trying to find a a community if like theyre not looking for you and i think as i like got older and i like actively networked with like asian artists from a show and like i made friends with em outside of it and then i made friends online and instagram and they were local and thats where i i kind of found that community and its mostly online and its mostly like dms", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes the progression from searching for community in Little Korea and among transplant friends to building an online Asian artist and Instagram network that more effectively satisfies that goal.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "search community boston little → boston city effort low, generalizes community struggles structural view", "edge_descriptor_key": "search for community in boston and little korea → boston as city of effort and low retention, generalizes community struggles into structural view of boston", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so i was just very like is there a point in trying to find a a community if like theyre not looking for you i feel like boston yeah boston is like a city of effort and maintaining the effort its so frustrating", "contextual_description": "This edge reflects how her difficulties in forming community in Little Korea and with transplant friends culminate in a structural assessment of Boston as effortful and low in social retention.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "boston city effort low → ambassador boston social maintenance, elicits ambassadorial maintenance role", "edge_descriptor_key": "boston as city of effort and low retention → ambassador for boston social maintenance role, elicits ambassadorial maintenance role", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i feel like boston yeah boston is like a city of effort and maintaining the effort its so frustrating so my responsibility is normally just keeping in contact with them like i will take the trip to somerville if youve moved there and i wanna see you i will message you if you move to california and then we can catch up and i can go see you", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how the structural evaluation of Boston as effortful leads into a self-assigned ambassador role centered on proactive relational maintenance.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "age life stage gap → boston city effort low, reinforces perception instability boston friendships", "edge_descriptor_key": "age and life stage gap with transient friends → boston as city of effort and low retention, reinforces perception of instability in boston friendships", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i do realize too that im getting older and some of the the friends ive made are like in their mid twenties and im not surprised that theyre still like moving apartment to apartment its just like i dont know i thats a question im still thinking about i feel like boston yeah boston is like a city of effort and maintaining the effort its so frustrating", "contextual_description": "This edge links age and life-stage gaps with friends to her broader framing of Boston as a city where maintaining relationships takes constant effort.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "superficial race class gender → mit dei advisory board, motivates formation dei advisory board", "edge_descriptor_key": "superficial race class gender course tagging → mit dei advisory board, motivates formation of dei advisory board", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "because there was an issue of like professors tagging classes for example that were race class and gender but like did you hit all three points or did you just read an octavia butler book and then patted yourself on the shoulder for that so the board came about because of that", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes the causal link between superficial course-tagging practices and the establishment of the MIT DEI advisory board.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "unsafe brookline work environment → brookline job exit decision, forces departure from unsafe workplace", "edge_descriptor_key": "unsafe brookline work environment → brookline job exit decision, forces departure from unsafe workplace", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so i feel like its hard to i dont i in brookline too it was me another mixed woman and then a woman from that was asian and the woman that was asian was my biggest contention like we were very close until she started putting everything on me and then it kind of like became like a a an unsafe work environment at least for me and i had to leave", "contextual_description": "This edge connects the unsafe Brookline work environment to the decision to leave that job, a strong, explicitly causal relation.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "black women attrition lack → mit dei advisory board, heightens urgency dei work mit", "edge_descriptor_key": "black women attrition and lack of non white leadership at mit → mit dei advisory board, heightens urgency of dei work at mit", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she felt like she wasnt being heard she was there for 12 years and they wont respect her seniority and given her the promotion that she had and gone through all the correct avenues for and she left and on top of that other black women have been leaving higher up positions and right now i dont think theres any nonwhite directors in chess i am a part of their d e i advisory board", "contextual_description": "This edge links Black women’s attrition and lack of non-white leadership at MIT to the urgency and relevance of the DEI advisory board she helps run.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "eurocentric spain centered curriculum → mit dei advisory board, frames curricular gaps target dei", "edge_descriptor_key": "eurocentric and spain centered curriculum with partial brazilian counterpoint → mit dei advisory board, frames curricular gaps as target of dei advocacy", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "cause shes always going to spain and madrid specifically he takes kids to sao paulo and he talks about the favelas and he talks about like h i v and aids impact on culture and especially latinx culture we could have had like a magic realism class in terms of like mexican literature easily with all the writers that came out of there but we dont we have new spain i am a part of their d e i advisory board", "contextual_description": "This edge connects the Eurocentric and Spain-centered curriculum, with a partial Brazilian counterpoint, to the DEI advisory board as a mechanism for addressing such gaps.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "queer diy boudoir event → collage art residency engineer, provides platform project based collaborations", "edge_descriptor_key": "queer diy boudoir events in old dive bar → collage art residency and engineer collaborator, provides platform for project based collaborations", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i also go with my coworker to like boudoir events my friend does sound there too its queer its d i y its themed its very fun its in an old dive bar but dannys been doing sound and pushing for like just any kind of like queer bipo representation and so i networked with like this vietnamese group to see if they wanted to use that as a venue too right now im also working on that collage art residency and theres one artist in the area thats an engineer so im gonna try to network with them on tuesday see if like you know we can work well together on top of like i dont know other projects we can work on", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how queer DIY boudoir events and related networks feed into and support ongoing project-based collaborations in her collage residency.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "online asian artist instagram → ambassador boston social maintenance, complements ambassador role digital maintenance", "edge_descriptor_key": "online asian artist and instagram network → ambassador for boston social maintenance role, complements ambassador role with digital maintenance", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and then i made friends online and instagram and they were local and thats where i i kind of found that community and its mostly online and its mostly like dms so my responsibility is normally just keeping in contact with them like i will take the trip to somerville if youve moved there and i wanna see you i will message you if you move to california and then we can catch up and i can go see you", "contextual_description": "This edge links the online Asian artist and Instagram network to her ambassador role, showing how digital communication extends and supports her ongoing relational maintenance.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s02_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "first-generation mixed-race identity → liminal identity bubble, necessitates creation protective identity space", "edge_descriptor_key": "first-generation mixed-race identity → liminal identity bubble, necessitates creation of protective identity space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "like being a first generation being like a military kid that has to move around being someone that doesnt speak their home countrys language but still has ties the culture like theres no place really to place them and to have to create that space is out of a necessity", "contextual_description": "Her description of first-generation, mixed, mobile identity directly ends with having to “create that space” out of necessity, making mixed identity a strong driver for the liminal bubble.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "liminal identity bubble → friend chosen community, provides safe shared space friends", "edge_descriptor_key": "liminal identity bubble → friends and chosen community, provides safe shared space for friends", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i think they helped me reinforce that like theres nothing wrong with being in that liminal space ive been using the word liminal a lot this year but like building and creating like a middle air bubble between being in boston being a bostonian and then being an asian person in boston like theres that bubble of like im also just like a weirdo and an artist in the middle here and being able to like its okay that i have this bubble i shouldnt be ashamed that i need like a bubble for me and my friends to feel like we can just be", "contextual_description": "The liminal identity bubble is described as something she “needs” specifically so that she and her friends can exist and “just be,” so the bubble functions as a safe shared space for that community.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "literature emotional home → white-dominated university department, exposes whiteness of academic canon", "edge_descriptor_key": "literature as emotional home → white-dominated university departments, exposes whiteness of academic canon", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "sure literature was like my home in the beginning i want to say its because i had a lot of feelings and i couldnt explain them i was always just really shy so reading helped me displace all of those thoughts and feelings and then getting into literature realized like holy shit it is very white especially at a very white school i took like maybe one class where we read a korean novel and even with art history i took like an asian art class taught by like a little old white man", "contextual_description": "The experience of literature as home transitions into an awareness that the literary and art history curriculum is overwhelmingly white, so this immersion in literature exposes the whiteness of the academic canon.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "war-traumatized mixed children vietnam → first-generation mixed-race identity, supplies ancestral template mixed-race stigma", "edge_descriptor_key": "war-traumatized mixed children in vietnam and america → first-generation mixed-race identity, supplies ancestral template for mixed-race stigma", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "my dad and my dads girlfriend both bonded over their trauma of being half white but then growing up in vietnam during the postwar era kids that were born out of a white soldier father a lot of them were left in vietnam and were bullied chased down the street ostracized by their communities and then coming to america not really finding a place but speaking vietnamese just looking different like being a first generation being like a military kid that has to move around being someone that doesnt speak their home countrys language but then who still has ties the culture like theres no place really to place them", "contextual_description": "The war-traumatized mixed children of white soldiers in Vietnam and the US are presented alongside her own description of first-generation mixed identity, making family history a template for her experience of unstable belonging.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "language gatekeeping supportive correction → first-generation mixed-race identity, challenges legitimacy of cultural belonging", "edge_descriptor_key": "language gatekeeping and supportive correction → first-generation mixed-race identity, challenges legitimacy of cultural belonging", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she was the only person thats ever been like what is jess saying i dont understand her and im like im speaking vietnamese im speaking in my own way i appreciate when my mom translates or corrects me instead of someone stopping me and saying youre not making sense because then im like how do i fix what im saying if youre just telling me that im not", "contextual_description": "Language gatekeeping (“you’re not making sense”) is positioned as delegitimizing her way of speaking Vietnamese, which directly undermines the already precarious placement of her first-generation mixed identity.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "ireland war-fractured analogue vietnam → war-traumatized mixed children vietnam, reactivates awareness vietnamese war history", "edge_descriptor_key": "ireland as war-fractured analogue to vietnam → war-traumatized mixed children in vietnam and america, reactivates awareness of vietnamese war history", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i went to ireland for a month and i was the only asian person i saw for like a whole month basically they gave me a scottish gaelic name cause they couldnt find an irish one i fell in love with ireland though because it was a lot like vietnam youre going to a country that has had a civil war and the north feels so separate from the rest of the country", "contextual_description": "By explicitly mapping Ireland onto Vietnam as another civil-war-scarred country, Ireland serves to reactivate and reframe the Vietnamese war structures that shaped mixed children’s experiences.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "ireland war-fractured analogue vietnam → haunted studio space old, precedes frames discovery studio space", "edge_descriptor_key": "ireland as war-fractured analogue to vietnam → haunted studio space in old gym, precedes and frames discovery of studio space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i went to ireland for a month and i was the only asian person i saw for like a whole month basically they gave me a scottish gaelic name cause they couldnt find an irish one i fell in love with ireland though because it was a lot like vietnam youre going to a country that has had a civil war and the north feels so separate from the rest of the country so going to ireland was this aha moment of like i can relate to another culture if i dont feel like vietnam is accessible to me right now and then coming back i really fell in love with the studio space they had it was an old gym very haunted and there was just so much space to just do stuff", "contextual_description": "The Ireland trip is described as an “aha moment” in another culture and immediately followed by falling in love with the haunted studio back home, framing the studio discovery as the next step after that experience.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "haunted studio space old → painting collage preferred expressive, enables shift painting main medium", "edge_descriptor_key": "haunted studio space in old gym → painting and collage as preferred expressive media, enables shift into painting as main medium", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "coming back i really fell in love with the studio space they had it was an old gym very haunted and there was just so much space to just do stuff painting was what drew me initially", "contextual_description": "The haunted studio is presented as a key environment whose spaciousness and atmosphere drew her into painting, enabling the shift to painting and later collage as central media.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "painting collage preferred expressive → first-generation mixed-race identity, expresses experience of feeling other", "edge_descriptor_key": "painting and collage as preferred expressive media → first-generation mixed-race identity, expresses experience of feeling other", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i personally dont think i would write a great novel but i would make a great cover for it i think poetry is beautiful but what i write is not gonna translate well into a poetry book but if i use it to relate to people or to make art maybe that would be easier to consume and understand than me having to write out a whole metaphor for people to be like oh so thats what its like to feel other and youre like yeah finally 20 pages later", "contextual_description": "She explicitly frames visual art as a way for others to understand what it is like to “feel other,” making painting/collage a vehicle for expressing the experiential side of her mixed and liminal identity.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "wartime exploitation vietnamese women → war-traumatized mixed children vietnam, extends war harm gendered exploitation", "edge_descriptor_key": "wartime exploitation of vietnamese women → war-traumatized mixed children in vietnam and america, extends war harm to gendered exploitation", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "that piece came about cause i was doing research on vietnamese women in the sixties and seventies i really like the imagery of them wearing their beautiful dresses riding mopeds but then you forget on the other side there were still bar girls and beyond that there was still prostitution towns were getting demolished buildings destroyed from bombing and combat i dont know if the vietnam war led to pleasure women cause i know in korea that was a very hard part of their history that america still has not addressed where women were forced into prostitution because of the decimation of their villages and towns and vietnam was probably teetering on that too", "contextual_description": "By juxtaposing glamorous street images with bar girls, prostitution, and comfort-women parallels, she extends the scope of Vietnamese war harm to include gendered sexual exploitation alongside the stigma experienced by mixed children.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "wartime exploitation vietnamese women → painting collage preferred expressive, provides critical subject matter artwork", "edge_descriptor_key": "wartime exploitation of vietnamese women → painting and collage as preferred expressive media, provides critical subject matter for artwork", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "that piece came about cause i was doing research on vietnamese women in the sixties and seventies i really like the imagery of them wearing their beautiful dresses riding mopeds but then you forget on the other side there were still bar girls and beyond that there was still prostitution towns were getting demolished buildings destroyed from bombing and combat", "contextual_description": "Her research into wartime Vietnamese women directly generates a specific artwork, making exploitation and war damage core critical subject matter for her painting and collage practice.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "heritage source material collage → painting collage preferred expressive, deepens authenticity technique collage practice", "edge_descriptor_key": "heritage source materials for collage → painting and collage as preferred expressive media, deepens authenticity and technique of collage practice", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i used my mom as a reference for one of my first surrealist paintings i was trying to do abstract trying and trying and then i kept layering train stubs library cards images out of architecture books it was all very anglo the minute i started cutting pictures from my old indian art textbooks and vietnamese calendar getting sentimental about the pieces like okay i cut it out its done i cant repurpose this again thats when she was like oh you really do have a technique here you definitely want to do this just focus on that", "contextual_description": "The move from Anglo ephemera to cutting heritage Indian and Vietnamese images is followed by strong validation of her technique, showing these materials deepen both authenticity and formal strength of her collage practice.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "painting collage preferred expressive → collage social coping tool, enables socially manageable participation events", "edge_descriptor_key": "painting and collage as preferred expressive media → collage as social coping tool, enables socially manageable participation at events", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i went to a youtube con with a friend and i spent the whole time collaging cause they had a collage table and a xerox i could do stuff with my hands not have to talk to people or talk without making eye contact", "contextual_description": "Collage practice becomes a practical strategy for being present at large events while regulating social exposure, allowing her to participate in a way that feels manageable.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s03_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "dispersed art residency context → analog-digital collaboration challenge, creates need integrate analog digital", "edge_descriptor_key": "dispersed art residency context → analog-digital collaboration challenge, creates need to integrate analog and digital practices", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "this is so relevant because right now the art residency theres people who are analog and theres people who are digital and right now were trying to find a middle ground cause were all over the country theres someone from poland theres someone in ireland and were trying to figure out how we can get the analog people to work with the digital people", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from the dispersed residency context to the analog–digital collaboration challenge, since the composition and geography of the residency explicitly motivate the search for a middle ground.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "glitch aesthetic loose pixel → curatorial material standard, puts glitch aesthetics tension professional", "edge_descriptor_key": "glitch aesthetics and loose pixels → curatorial material standards, puts glitch aesthetics in tension with professional finish norms", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "they have weird degrees of like finish i moved away from matting stuff that i print now and i frame i had a curator thats like just print it on metal like metal is the new finish now and im like i didnt know that its just so weird how people just move on from like this is whats finished and professional now this is finished and professional", "contextual_description": "Implicit, directed edge from glitch aesthetics and loose pixels toward curatorial material standards, capturing the tension between her comfort with visual degradation and externally imposed ideals of “new finish” and professionalism.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "somerville armory show experience → validation detailed art analysis, enables later recognition deep conversational", "edge_descriptor_key": "somerville armory show experience → validation through detailed art analysis, enables later recognition and deep conversational analysis", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "also im just realizing now that you were in that somerville art show at the armory i saw you im so sorry im like okay now i know why i know your face it was very opening because teez was in the show so i was like ill show up it was like a hundred degrees and there was no ac", "contextual_description": "Implicit directed edge from the Somerville show experience to the later validation-through-analysis state, since recognizing the interviewer from that show situates the present conversation and helps explain its depth.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "vietnamese karaoke song quay → fragile vietnamese language confidence, exposes insecurity using vietnamese language", "edge_descriptor_key": "vietnamese karaoke song quay deu artwork → fragile vietnamese language confidence, exposes insecurity about using vietnamese language seriously", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "theres i have one piece called quay deu its based off of this song that my mom used to karaoke all the time and its off of a karaoke screen too i gravitated to that song as a kid because it was just about a bike and a wheel spinning but then when you break down the words to like spin evenly the whole thing is about romanticizing riding on a bike on the back of your childhood first love for me its funny that theres several ways to read it cause quay spelled that way means to spin evenly but if you spell quay q u e and pronounce it the same way with different intonations it means homeland i think my use of vietnamese imagery and language is from this place of having the language but feeling incredibly insecure with using it seriously or outside of my family", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from the “Quay đều” artwork to fragile Vietnamese language confidence, since the piece’s multilingual wordplay directly triggers and reveals her insecurity about using Vietnamese.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "chinatown collage show → fragile asian identity community, reveals barrier self vietnamese asian", "edge_descriptor_key": "chinatown collage show → fragile asian identity and community barrier, reveals barrier between self and vietnamese and asian communities", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "in terms of my collage i didnt have anyone in my family or anyone that i knew like my sister come to the show i did in chinatown i had worked really hard to create an asian identity even though i was told all the time growing up that i was american finally having a show in chinatown with another vietnamese american i thought i would have some acknowledgement and i did but i still feel like theres always this barrier between me and vietnamese and asian communities where im not totally comfortable", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from the Chinatown collage show to fragile Asian identity and community barrier, because the show outcome directly reveals that the barrier persists despite her efforts.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "curatorial material standard → iterative editing flux practice, shapes decisions finish scale reworking", "edge_descriptor_key": "curatorial material standards → iterative editing and flux practice, shapes decisions about finish scale and reworking", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i think it comes down to how i want the finish to look if i have a large wall to work with im gonna want to frame it larger and if i work on a larger scale it requires a lot of resolution to make sure the image can blow up correctly working backwards like that lets me re engage with the art piece like the paints never dried and i get to revisit what i was thinking when i was working on it the website has things that are like my portfolio but the pieces themselves when i have to present them are liable to change and the idea of editing isnt shameful its that were constantly in flux", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from curatorial material standards to iterative editing and flux practice, reflecting how ideas of “finish” and scale help structure her approach to resizing, reprinting, and revisiting works.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "toni morrison ladder ethic → future youth waiting access, frames obligation keep ladder available", "edge_descriptor_key": "toni morrison ladder ethic → future youth waiting for access, frames obligation to keep ladder available for future kids", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "theres that toni morrison quote where shes like you all have your expensive education just remember that the ladder that got you up here dont pull it up leave it for the other kids that are waiting for you to take it", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from the Toni Morrison ladder ethic to future youth waiting for access, articulating a clear obligation to preserve pathways for coming generations.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "mixed identity standing nowhere → solidarity other marginalized peer, drives solidarity other marginalized peers", "edge_descriptor_key": "mixed identity standing nowhere → solidarity with other marginalized peers, drives solidarity with other marginalized peers", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i feel like a lot of the latinx and black kids are the only ones that understand where im coming from because both my parents are mixed but they dont relate to me at all theyre like well we gave you america and im like but i dont have america theres still a bunch of stuff thats gonna roadblock me from getting america even when im american youre still shaming me for not knowing my culture or my vietnamese culture so its always with the other people who dont know where they stand and thats where we stand nowhere", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from mixed identity standing nowhere to solidarity with other marginalized peers, since sharing this unstable position is what grounds her connection to Latinx and Black kids.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "fragile asian identity community → mixed identity standing nowhere, contributes feeling standing nowhere cultures", "edge_descriptor_key": "fragile asian identity and community barrier → mixed identity standing nowhere, contributes to feeling of standing nowhere between cultures", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i feel like a lot of the latinx and black kids are the only ones that understand where im coming from because both my parents are mixed but they dont relate to me at all theyre like well we gave you america and im like but i dont have america theres still a bunch of stuff thats gonna roadblock me from getting america even when im american youre still shaming me for not knowing my culture or my vietnamese culture so its always with the other people who dont know where they stand and thats where we stand nowhere", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from fragile Asian identity and community barrier to mixed identity standing nowhere, since accumulated barriers and shaming around culture help produce the “nowhere” stance.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "validation detailed art analysis → iterative editing flux practice, reinforces commitment ongoing art practice", "edge_descriptor_key": "validation through detailed art analysis → iterative editing and flux practice, reinforces commitment to ongoing art practice and reflection", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "its so great i appreciate talking to you so much i know i talk a lot but i really appreciate you really analyzing my work", "contextual_description": "Directed edge from validation through detailed art analysis to iterative editing and flux practice, indicating that feeling seriously analyzed supports her ongoing, reflective engagement with her work.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s04_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "overstepping tran conversation → guilt self-centering empathy, generates guilt about self-centering empathy", "edge_descriptor_key": "overstepping in trans conversations → guilt about self-centering empathy, generates guilt about self-centering empathy", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "well i felt a little guilty after where we talked too where i was like i really shouldnt be inserting myself into the trans conversation i just felt like when i was trying to over empathize with them with the last conversation we had im like i dont want that to show up in the study that i overstepped", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the perceived risk of overstepping in trans conversations leads the interviewee to experience guilt about having centered their own empathic responses.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "tran non-binary sibling → overstepping tran conversation, teaches limits of empathic insertion", "edge_descriptor_key": "trans and non-binary sibling → overstepping in trans conversations, teaches limits of empathic insertion", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "whenever i tried to empathize with them or at least relate to them theyre just like stop you dont get it let me vent they needed to have a place to talk and i wasnt letting them talk", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how interactions with the trans/non-binary sibling train the interviewee to recognize and label their behavior as “inserting” themselves into the conversation in ways that risk overstepping.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "tran non-binary sibling → need protected venting space, requires protected venting space", "edge_descriptor_key": "trans and non-binary sibling → need for protected venting space, requires protected venting space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "theyre just like stop you dont get it let me vent they needed to have a place to talk and i wasnt letting them talk", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes the sibling’s demand for a protected venting space as a requirement emerging from their identity and healing process.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "need protected venting space → vigilance gendered conversation, fosters vigilance in gendered conversations", "edge_descriptor_key": "need for protected venting space → vigilance in gendered conversations, fosters vigilance in gendered conversations", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i think im just always aware of that where im like i hope what im saying is adding to that conversation not just me trying to center it around myself its tricky its just vigilant", "contextual_description": "This edge represents how the recognized need for venting space leads the interviewee to maintain vigilance about not re-centering themself in sensitive gendered discussions.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "professor s tran assumption → vigilance gendered conversation, drives vigilance after misrecognition", "edge_descriptor_key": "professor’s trans assumption based on name and work → vigilance in gendered conversations, drives vigilance after misrecognition", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i also had this one professor ask me if i was transgendered because of my last name its tricky its just vigilant", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how being misread as transgender by a professor reinforces the interviewee’s vigilance in conversations about gender and identity.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "pun-based tran meme humor → vigilance gendered conversation, coexists with vigilance around language", "edge_descriptor_key": "pun-based trans meme humor → vigilance in gendered conversations, coexists with vigilance around language", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "yeah theres a meme too just terrible joking like that", "contextual_description": "This edge links pun-based trans meme humor to the vigilant stance, indicating co-presence of joking and carefulness around language rather than a clear causal direction.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "guilt self-centering empathy → bojack-like self-image, colors self-image as bojack-like", "edge_descriptor_key": "guilt about self-centering empathy → bojack-like self-image, colors self-image as bojack-like", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i feel like bojack", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the persistent guilt about self-centering and vigilant self-monitoring contribute to a BoJack-like, self-critical self-image.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "i am going be → analog-digital material translation, embodies analog-digital material translation", "edge_descriptor_key": "“i am going to be opaque with you” artwork → analog–digital material translation, embodies analog–digital material translation", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i wound up painting the gray square instead of using a transparent box which i did digitally i didnt translate the transparency i wound up actually using physical paint for it", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes the artwork as an embodiment of analog–digital translation choices, making the piece a concrete instance of the broader material-translation concept.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "i am going be → commercial circulation personal artwork, acquires commercial circulation", "edge_descriptor_key": "“i am going to be opaque with you” artwork → commercial circulation of personal artwork, acquires commercial circulation", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "this piece has been my most commercial asked if they can make a quarter print on newsprint i put it on society six as a sticker too and one of my friends had it on their bathroom door", "contextual_description": "This edge represents the artwork’s trajectory from studio object to widely circulating commercial object across city spaces and platforms.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "friend romantic breakup → overgrown greenhouse safe space, drives retreat greenhouse safe space", "edge_descriptor_key": "friend and romantic breakups → overgrown greenhouse safe space, drives retreat into greenhouse safe space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "thats usually my safe space in my brain and then i was going through a really rough breakup it was a friend breakup and then a romantic breakup", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the stress of friend and romantic breakups motivates the interviewee to retreat into the overgrown greenhouse as an internal calming space.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "friend romantic breakup → masked impenetrable face motif, informs masked impenetrable face motif", "edge_descriptor_key": "friend and romantic breakups → masked and impenetrable face motif, informs masked and impenetrable face motif", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "the idea that kept running through my head was that someone could tell you that theyre nice or relaxed or romantic but their actions speak louder so i figured i would play with this inverted silhouette their face is just impenetrable", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how the breakup experience and associated distrust of declarations of niceness directly shape the masked, impenetrable face motif in the artwork.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "digital craft labor versus → ai art anxiety-inducing artificial, positions ai art anxiety-inducing artificial", "edge_descriptor_key": "digital craft labor versus just clicking → ai art as anxiety-inducing artificial wrench, positions ai art as anxiety-inducing artificial wrench", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "people would actually drag their own pixels but then theres people who just sit there and click and they havent really thought about each component into the ai piece so its just ai just throws in that artificial wrench in there too", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the perceived lack of thoughtful labor in some AI use leads the interviewee to frame AI art as a disruptive, anxiety-inducing “artificial wrench.”", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "nondescript asian stock-image collage → ai maker generalized human, prefigures view ai generalizing humans", "edge_descriptor_key": "nondescript asian stock-image collage → ai as maker of generalized human beings, prefigures view of ai as generalizing humans", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "you just created a nondescript asian person and thats where i feel like ai is going its just making a generalized human being when were not generalized", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how the discomfort with a generalized “Asian” collage becomes the template for understanding AI as creating generalized, non-specific human figures.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "grandmother s domestic altar → vietnamese period drama vhs, frames media watching within ancestor-oriented", "edge_descriptor_key": "grandmother’s domestic altar and ancestor rituals → vietnamese period dramas and vhs watching with grandmother, frames media watching within ancestor-oriented home life", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she had shelves of old vietnamese newsprints my grandmother would have stacks of videos that my mom would pop in dorchester and then shed hand me one that she thought was pretty decent and id watch that", "contextual_description": "This edge represents how the altar-centered domestic environment also organizes shared viewing of Vietnamese dramas, embedding media practice within ancestor-oriented home life.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "randolph house layout entrance → grandmother s domestic altar, structures placement altar rituals", "edge_descriptor_key": "randolph house layouts and entrances → grandmother’s domestic altar and ancestor rituals, structures placement of altar and rituals", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "we didnt use the front door because there was a superstition in the first house on the corner of the room would be the altar in the next house the altar was at the bottom of the stairs", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the evolving layouts of the Randolph houses structure where the altar is placed and thus how ancestor rituals are spatially organized.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "randolph house layout entrance → grandmother og bodyguard gatekeeper, positions grandmother gatekeeper entries", "edge_descriptor_key": "randolph house layouts and entrances → grandmother as og bodyguard gatekeeper, positions grandmother as gatekeeper at entries", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "her bedroom was right outside the front door the altar was at the bottom of the stairs everyone was afraid of my grandmother she was just like yeah grandmas like og bodyguard", "contextual_description": "This edge captures how the spatial organization of rooms and doors places the grandmother in a gatekeeping role, making her an “OG bodyguard” that visitors must pass.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "trauma past never resting → long-haired roadside woman vietnamese, crystallizes trauma into horror figure", "edge_descriptor_key": "trauma and past never resting → long-haired roadside woman in vietnamese horror, crystallizes trauma into horror figure", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "im realizing a lot of the vietnamese horror is trauma and ghosts and just the past never resting the idea of a woman standing on the side of the road with long hair and she just wants to eat you shes hurt and she needs to hurt someone", "contextual_description": "This edge encodes how the abstract theme of trauma and an unresting past crystallizes into the concrete long-haired woman figure in Vietnamese horror.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "grandmother s late-life misperception → ear swelling imbalance grief, co-occurs highlights sympathetic ear swelling", "edge_descriptor_key": "grandmother’s late-life misperceptions and caregiving fantasy → ear swelling and imbalance during grief, co-occurs with and highlights sympathetic ear swelling", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "around the time when she was getting sicker and i lost her my ears started swelling i dont know if it was a sympathetic thing or not maybe that sense of imbalance too was just sympathetic", "contextual_description": "This edge links the grandmother’s late-life misperceptions and caregiving fantasy period to the interviewee’s somatic ear swelling, suggesting a sympathetic embodied response.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "long-haired roadside woman vietnamese → ear swelling imbalance grief, resonates embodied imbalance grief", "edge_descriptor_key": "long-haired roadside woman in vietnamese horror → ear swelling and imbalance during grief, resonates with embodied imbalance in grief", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "shes hurt and she needs to hurt someone especially around the time when she was getting sicker and i lost her my ears started swelling maybe that sense of imbalance too was just sympathetic", "contextual_description": "This edge captures an implicit resonance between the horror image of a hurt figure needing to hurt and the interviewee’s own bodily imbalance during grief, without asserting a direct causal arrow.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s05_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "grandmother s guan yin-centered → guan yin gender fluid, grandmother s buddhist devotion frames", "edge_descriptor_key": "grandmother’s guan yin-centered buddhist practice → guan yin gender fluid historical depictions grandmother’s buddhist devotion frames understanding of guan yin’s gender fluidity", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "yeah so in vietnamese its pronounced sorry guang is how you say it but then chinese its guang y and then sometimes theres other ways as spell so not juan im sorry that auto corrected i think its long and then its juan yen in chinese thats cool and i think in japanese theres another name for her too yeah and it just always interested me because my grandmother was around a lot of nuns in terms of buddhism and it was a man that ran a male master that ran the temple that she grew up in", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: inherited temple and Guan Yin practice provides the context in which gender-fluid depictions of Guan Yin later acquire meaning.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "childhood classroom misgendering grandmother → dread constantly being othered, early misgendering experience contributes ongoing", "edge_descriptor_key": "childhood classroom misgendering of grandmother tim → dread of constantly being othered early misgendering experience contributes to ongoing dread of being othered", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "well i mean i think it comes back to that childhood too of having to argue with people this is my culture this is what ive been taught as a kid and im not going to let myself be either brainwashed into an american perspective and erase what i do have and what i know to be my grandmother not my grandfather and then being able to be more confident in the things that i know to be true as opposed to what someones telling me is true knowing how do i explain this the dread of constantly being othered", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the childhood classroom misgendering and cultural arguments are described as feeding into a durable dread of being othered.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "dread constantly being othered → microaggression navigation strategy energy, dread othering drives development microaggression", "edge_descriptor_key": "dread of constantly being othered → microaggression navigation strategies and energy management dread of othering drives development of microaggression strategies", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "the dread of constantly being othered i dont think that there ever will be a moment where im not ready guards up but you end up learning how to have those elbows ready for when someone wants to say something thats a microaggression and then being able to accept that was a microaggression and i handled it in a way that i wouldnt have if i didnt acknowledge it for what it is of this is a person coming to me from a place of not knowing as opposed to ignorance as opposed to malice", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: chronic anticipatory dread is presented as the condition under which she learns and applies nuanced microaggression-handling strategies.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "dread constantly being othered → mixed-heritage self-disclosure dilemma where, dread othering shapes mixed-heritage disclosure", "edge_descriptor_key": "dread of constantly being othered → mixed-heritage self-disclosure dilemma (“where are you from”) dread of othering shapes mixed-heritage disclosure decisions", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "well i mean i think it comes back to that childhood too of having to argue with people this is my culture this is what ive been taught as a kid and im not going to let myself be either brainwashed into an american perspective and erase what i do have and what i know to be my grandmother not my grandfather", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the same defensive stance forged in childhood othering informs how she now modulates disclosure about her mixed heritage.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "genetic test result 51 → mixed-heritage self-disclosure dilemma where, genetic percentage complicates mixed-heritage self-definition", "edge_descriptor_key": "genetic test result “51 percent vietnamese” → mixed-heritage self-disclosure dilemma (“where are you from”) genetic percentage complicates mixed-heritage self-definition", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and im officially 51 percent vietnamese so i am still half both my parents are half but i am still technically half so wheres the math there i have no idea", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the genetic result reframes and destabilizes her existing story of herself as “half,” complicating how she answers “where are you from.”", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "mit collage poster marathon → acceptance digital-analog middle ground, mit poster workload prompts turn", "edge_descriptor_key": "mit collage poster marathon workload → acceptance of digital–analog middle ground and dropping shame mit poster workload prompts turn toward digital–analog middle ground", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "so the high volume production of collages was going to happen for me fall spring every year now and my first go at it i remember being drained and tired and then my second year at it im getting better and i can reuse certain things but i know now not to do too much or if i do too much i know i need to conserve energy between each one and i think with that too is when i was just like what about my creative stuff what if i took a breath and i made something for myself and i think that was when i realized yeah theres nothing wrong with that middle ground between analog and digital but if digital is more efficient and makes more sense in the moment do it", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: sustained MIT workload is the context in which she discovers and embraces a pragmatic analog–digital middle ground.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "edward gorey institutional endurance → mit collage poster marathon, edward gorey benchmark supports endurance", "edge_descriptor_key": "edward gorey institutional endurance benchmark → mit collage poster marathon workload edward gorey benchmark supports endurance of mit workload", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i remember thinking when i started m i t edward gory made it three years at harvard if i make it a year at m i t im good i just need to just write it out if ed gore can do it i can do it", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the Edward Gorey example functions as a motivational template that helps her tolerate the MIT poster marathon.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "trust-fund supported artist → financial barrier culturally aligned, trust-fund artists underfunded academics mirror", "edge_descriptor_key": "trust-fund supported artists → financial barriers for culturally aligned academics trust-fund artists and underfunded academics mirror class-based gatekeeping", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "yeah seriously im not going to go on another tangent but there is so many artists that i remember looking up to when i was in college and then realizing half of them have trust funds even academics it would be so nice to have someone of the culture to be the expert of the culture but half the time they dont have the money to be able to make it through to their phd", "contextual_description": "Undirected edge: both nodes describe parallel manifestations of economic gatekeeping in art and academia.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "financial barrier culturally aligned → mit grad union win, academic funding barriers co-occur critique", "edge_descriptor_key": "financial barriers for culturally aligned academics → mit grad union win and remaining transit injustice academic funding barriers co-occur with critique of mit student support", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "even academics it would be so nice to have someone of the culture to be the expert of the culture but half the time they dont have the money to be able to make it through to their phd yeah i mean im glad that the m i t grad student union fought for what they did im so proud of them for winning and getting more than they deserve but it blows my mind that m i t doesnt even pay for the students tfa", "contextual_description": "Undirected edge: she sequences structural underfunding of culturally aligned scholars together with MIT’s partial support of its own students, forming a broader critique of institutional priorities.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "mit grad union win → staff-student transit inequity mit, union gains highlight staff-student transit", "edge_descriptor_key": "mit grad union win and remaining transit injustice → staff–student transit inequity at mit union gains highlight staff–student transit inequity", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "yeah i mean im glad that the m i t grad student union fought for what they did im so proud of them for winning and getting more than they deserve but it blows my mind that m i t doesnt even pay for the students tfa you want your kids to be stuck in kendall all day give them a tfa as staff i get it free and i get it because i have to go in and make them money but if a students going there and theyre already paying that much just give em a teeth pass come on", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: awareness of union achievements sharpens her perception of unfair transit treatment between staff and students.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "self-taught photoshop skill graphic → millennial professional google searcher, self-taught photoshop generalizes belief millennial", "edge_descriptor_key": "self-taught photoshop skill and graphic designer identity → millennials as professional google searchers self-taught photoshop generalizes to belief in millennial search skills", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "but i had one manager ask me do you know photoshop and i said sure and i googled it and i watched a youtube video and had to take someone out of a photograph and i think from there is when theyre like you know it you got it yeah professional i think millennials are professional google searchers and i think they need to at least honor that for themselves because theres a lot of lies and viruses on the internet and we can navigate it well", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: her own experience of learning tools online is used as evidence for a generational identity built on search/navigation competence.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "instagram productivity pressure algorithm → need acknowledgement productivity serotonin, instagram overproduction pressure fuels desire", "edge_descriptor_key": "instagram productivity pressure and algorithm anxiety → need for acknowledgement and productivity “serotonin” from posting instagram overproduction pressure fuels desire for productivity serotonin", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i started with this lofty goal and i hear everyone going through this too where im like im going to make a collage every day and it lasted a week and then i tried to do it every other week and then even then i was just like im not happy with what im producing enough to publish it i know i started off with just not rubbish but things that i would glue and then photograph within the minute because i wanted to feel productive i wanted that serotonin hit of youre not in school but you submitted the assignment and youre proud of it and i needed that", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the structural pressure to appear constantly productive on Instagram directly feeds a motivational loop based on internal reward and acknowledgement.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "art suburbia curator s → art instagram personal safe, curator s monetized critique motivates", "edge_descriptor_key": "art in suburbia curator’s critique and monetized workshops → art and instagram as personal safe experimental space curator’s monetized critique motivates guarding art as safe space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she was like i sent her my artist statement and the next day she offered everyone a workshop on writing better artist statement basically and i realized not everyone in the art world is looking out for each other some of us are very competitive some of us are insecure and i want my art to still be a safe place for me to experiment and create things that may not be ready for a wall but maybe if someone were to push me this way or that way it could be", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the experience of monetized, impersonal critique triggers a resolve to preserve art/Instagram as a safe, experimental space.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "instagram productivity pressure algorithm → art instagram personal safe, algorithm pressure leads slower more", "edge_descriptor_key": "instagram productivity pressure and algorithm anxiety → art and instagram as personal safe experimental space algorithm pressure leads to slower more protective posting", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i started with this lofty goal and i hear everyone going through this too where im like im going to make a collage every day and i think the social media aspect too is theres this overproduction you want to be in the algorithm you want to be on someones feed every day i want my art to still be a safe place for me to experiment and create things that may not be ready for a wall", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: awareness of algorithmic overproduction pressure supports her shift to slower, more protective posting practices.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "boston inhospitable new gallery → art suburbia curator s, inhospitable boston context coexists curator", "edge_descriptor_key": "boston inhospitable to new galleries without large capital → art in suburbia curator’s critique and monetized workshops inhospitable boston context coexists with curator’s struggles", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "she came up from florida on a grant and i think she did three shows and then realized that boston was really inhospitable to new galleries basically unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to spend on space because shes doing popups everywhere", "contextual_description": "Undirected edge: curator’s personal behavior and her city-level constraints are two sides of the same structural story about the art ecosystem.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "professional lurker online safety → doxxing stalking assault invasion, lurking strategy aims avoid doxxing", "edge_descriptor_key": "professional lurker online safety strategy → doxxing stalking and assault as invasions of safe space lurking strategy aims to avoid doxxing and other invasions of safe space", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "ive been a professional lurker online since i was 13 when i have that i dont know if this is a safe space maybe i should put my ad blocker on maybe i shouldnt type and read through what people are saying before i say something now and then the danger of doxxing and stuff too all of its invasion of a safe space whatever it is this persons out to harm me and either way youve got to know how to just see that danger and then back away from it before you get doxxed or hacked sorry or stalked or beaten up", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: her lurking practice is explicitly presented as a strategy to detect danger and retreat before safe spaces are violated.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "art instagram personal safe → doxxing stalking assault invasion, wish art safe space is", "edge_descriptor_key": "art and instagram as personal safe experimental space → doxxing stalking and assault as invasions of safe space wish for art safe space is reinforced by awareness of invasion risks", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and i realized not everyone in the art world is looking out for each other some of us are very competitive some of us are insecure and i want my art to still be a safe place for me to experiment and create things that may not be ready for a wall and then the danger of doxxing and stuff too all of its invasion of a safe space whatever it is this persons out to harm me", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the perceived risk of invasion (doxxing, harm) helps justify and stabilize her commitment to maintaining a protective art space.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "collage real thing transphobia → racialized standard acceptable imagery, concern misreading real thing overlaps", "edge_descriptor_key": "collage “the real thing” and transphobia disclaimer about realness → racialized standards for acceptable imagery in department posters concern about misreading of “real thing” overlaps with poster double standards", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i made this one collage where its something about have you seen the real thing i had to write a disclaimer saying this isnt transphobia and its not whether someones a real man or a real woman when im talking about is real humanness at work someone designed a poster of beyonce drinking wine that was the one poster thats ever been challenged and then this year someone made a french literature poster of a silhouette of a woman smoking a cigarette they didnt take it down it was a white lady hand with a cigarette", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the need to preempt transphobic misreadings mirrors her awareness of racialized and moral double standards in institutional image policing.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "tumblr-based sourcing back-searching original → cautious use public domain, tumblr sourcing practice evolves broader", "edge_descriptor_key": "tumblr-based sourcing and back-searching for original artists → cautious use of public domain museums and vietnamese archives tumblr sourcing practice evolves into broader cautious image-ethics framework", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "and i would back search it until i could find who the original poster was and then id add it to my notes thats kind of where tumblr came into that where i kind of got better at sourcing things so i usually type in public domain if im googling image searching i usually do it through creative commons sometimes i go through museums and then lemme see the vietnamese images have been a little hazy for me but i feel like vietnamese image rights have always been very hazy especially art", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: her Tumblr-era habit of finding original posters grows into a more expansive and cautious sourcing and rights-checking practice.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "instagram productivity pressure algorithm → mit literature social media, instagram experience informs humane departmental", "edge_descriptor_key": "instagram productivity pressure and algorithm anxiety → mit literature social media pacing and event-focused posts instagram experience informs humane departmental posting strategy", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i do enjoy instagram i do really posting art i just havent really felt like doing it recently i guess i have a job at m i t doing all their social medias and its a different way to engage i think i dont like how a lot of people want to post every single day on their instagram feed and twitter feed i try to treat it as humanely as possible for these students", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: lessons from personal Instagram fatigue help shape a more humane, less relentless institutional posting practice.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "mit literature social media → art instagram personal safe, event-focused institutional posting supports idea", "edge_descriptor_key": "mit literature social media pacing and event-focused posts → art and instagram as personal safe experimental space event-focused institutional posting supports idea of safe deliberate sharing", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "i usually do monthly checkins to see if ive posted anything and i try to focus on events that are coming up so its more of make sure you know that these are all the classes being offered and then make sure you know that this is something you can actually attend either on zoom or in person i want my art to still be a safe place for me to experiment and create things that may not be ready for a wall", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: focusing institutional posts on concrete, helpful events parallels her desire to make sharing more deliberate and protective rather than constant exposure.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" }, { "semantic_edge_key": "dread constantly being othered → professional lurker online safety, dread othering extends cautious online", "edge_descriptor_key": "dread of constantly being othered → professional lurker online safety strategy dread of othering extends into cautious online lurking", "cleaned_edge_excerpt": "im sure i do i think ive managed to just kind block it out i just know that im constantly on guard of things if i enter a chat room where someones just spouting nonsense i can just write one line going like youre wrong or i dont because that persons just going to spam me in real life its the same way do i meet a racist do i tell them that theyre wrong or do i just hear them for their ignorance and not engage with them", "contextual_description": "Directed edge: the hyper-vigilant stance developed around othering carries over into online lurking tactics for assessing and avoiding harmful interactions.", "notes": "", "source_file": "(manual) jtv_s06_network.xlsx" } ] }