perceiving

"Humans aren't great at perceiving distances through sound, particularly when there are multiple sound sources around them," said senior author Shyam Gollakota, a UW professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

“That year was about a group of Black women being pushed out. The abject nature of Blackness is inherent in the way people were perceiving what it means for us to be present or not present in a conversation about what it means to get recognition. And the recognition that is offered to a certain group of people, the conversation isn’t afforded to them. We have to begin to question ourselves truly if we want a space to have any form of equity.”

The two doomed, cynical worlds begin divided by a turntable, but unfold simultaneously as the stage's rotation draws the stories together, evoking the "double consciousness" Du Bois described as Black individuals simultaneously perceiving how they view themselves and how society views them.

“We have a way of perceiving it,” Ayala said.

Society is generally bad at perceiving how old Black people are.