Faculty of Design

Illustration

Annika Lui

The Loss of Diverse Collective Empowerment

"The Loss of Diverse Collective Empowerment" is an analytical essay that is a prelude to the thesis "We Want to Remember." The essay outlines the research that led to the eventual conclusions displayed in the "We Want to Remember" collection.

“"The Loss of Diverse Collective Empowerment" is the base thesis for my approach and understanding of all my other works. I wrote this analytical paper for my Creative Economics course from Adam Kingsmith. This passion project bloomed into a culmination of a combination of studies from my Diaspora: Identity & Migration class with Camille Issacs, to the lecture halls with Howard Munroe on The History of Métis, and starting an inevitable journey at the movies that introduced caste systems studies with Isabel Wilkerson. The contents of this paper aren't inherently new. They are thought-provoking, radical, challenging, and modernly known as "controversial." I am putting to words the connections that have been iterated by scholars, artists, journalists, teachers, freedom fighters and parents throughout the decades. These connections are just the charting of transitions that persist to this day. So, ultimately it defines the goal of what I want to do as an independent artist. To travel through transitions with art and writing. ”