WILLIAMSLENSES

Radical, creative expression & endless love

📁 WILLIAMSLENSES LLC

🎉 EST. 2015

📍 Currently: A2/Ypsilanti, MI

🥸 24 | Image-Maker | Multimedia Artist

The Belonging Project

Press | More Information

About the project:

Capturing Spectrum Center’s community legacy of belonging through story and portraits. At the University of Michigan, that kind of belonging did not simply happen. People fought for it. Belonging is something we build. These are not simply portraits. They are evidence of what becomes possible when people refuse to accept exclusion and oppression. Together, their stories reveal that belonging is not a finished achievement. It is something each generation must continue to create, defend, and expand.

The Spectrum Center was born from action. It has endured through resilience. And its story continues through every person who comes through its doors, finds their voice, claims their space, and makes room for those coming after. For 55 years, people at U-M have turned the demand to be seen into action, action into community, and community into belonging.

The Belonging Project is a tribute to those who made that possible, a reflection of those carrying it forward today, and an invitation to imagine what we will build for the next generation. The Spectrum Center Belonging Project honors 55 Years of Action and Resilience by centering the people who give our story meaning. Through portraits and personal reflections from students, alumnx, faculty, and staff, the project captures belonging across generations, identities, experiences, and moments in Spectrum Center’s history.

A group of 24 students, faculty, staff, and alumnx participated in the Belonging Project. Each was asked to reflect on their relationship with Spectrum Center. These reflections were crafted into narratives of belonging. Taken together, the photos and the accompanying narratives explore how generations have cultivated a sense of belonging through their engagement with Spectrum Center since our founding.

These are not simply portraits. They are evidence of what becomes possible when people refuse to accept exclusion and oppression.

❤️ RADICAL CREATIVE EXPRESSION & ENDLESS LOVE | RADICAL CREATIVE EXPRESSION & ENDLESS LOVE | RADICAL CREATIVE EXPRESSION & ENDLESS LOVE | RADICAL CREATIVE EXPRESSION & ENDLESS LOVE ❤️