Jury Magazine — Mahealily's Portfolio

Title

Jury Magazine

Description

Jury is printed entirely over Vol. 24 of Judge magazine, an American satirical magazine from the late 1800s that profited greatly off the degradation of minority ethnicities (specifically in this instance Hawaiians). As American colonization expanded into Hawai'i, Judge and many other American magazines depicted Hawaiians in defamatory ways and worked to establish harmful stereotypes that Hawaiians were stupid, lazy, submissive, sultry, and laughable. These seemingly harmless cartoons laid the groundwork for beliefs that lived, and still live, in the minds of people around the world.These stereotypes create a sense of cultural dysphoria, defined as "the dissonance between the social expectations of an individual’s cultural performance or identity, and their desired embodiment of that culture, or uncertainty about where they fit into existing cultural categories." This 16-page publication manipulates the existing pages of Judge to address relevant politics and give voice to cultural dysphoria.

Date

May 2024

Duration

2 Months

Media

Publication

Size (inches)

10 x 13.5