Penn’s Communication Department Course — Black: Joy, Aesthetics and Critical Media Making — taught by visiting post-doctorate fellow Dr. Chaz Barracks in the Annenberg School for Communication. This course allows students to study concepts from Black studies, film studies, communication, and performance to learn practical and multimodal approaches to understanding joy as a form of resistance. Our final project was to produce a piece of media using any preferred medium, incorporating class concepts that circulated in discussion throughout the semester. My project was a 3-part series of digital collages made from a combination of imagery collected from internet search engines, film and television programs, and personal photographs. The piece explores themes that most resonated with me in this course such as subverting the one-dimensional idea of professionalism, the emotional exploration of queer sexuality, and the profound relationship with one’s home-place as a site of resistance. This work was done using the Adobe Photoshop software.