Slow Digest: Minding the Humanities Gap

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee Pritchard. “THE GAP BETWEEN THIS ROOM & THE COMMUNITY IS TOO BIG,” wrote one audience member during the State of the Humanities MKE panel discussion. The comment, submitted anonymously …

Slow Digest: The Humanities Cannot Stay the Same

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. In October of 2025, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted a panel on the current state of the humanities in Milwaukee. The panel, moderated by C21’s Director …

Slow Digest: The Politics of Looking

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Symphony Swan, a C21 Story Fellow, hosted a memory activation workshop last November at CR8TV House, a community arts organization on Milwaukee’s North Side. Once Swan’s childhood …