Nicholas Whittaker is a senior at Harvard College, studying philosophy with a secondary in government. He has spent his time at the College working to understand how best to use the tradition of philosophy as a political tool for marginalized communities. His academic interests include traditional aesthetic philosophy, critical race theory and queer studies, and ethics. He hopes to unite these disparate elements in his future academic work, studying the ways that works of art embody facts or fictions about marginalized existences. He has presented independent work on feminism and economic justice at the Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Nicholas hopes to pursue a JD and PhD in philosophy and plans to work as an educator to make academia more accessible to marginalized communities. His project focuses on the idea that the consumption and creation of art is fundamentally ethical, in that it presupposes ethical commitments and introduces new kinds of ethical dilemmas. This project will examine the racialized ethical commitments wrapped up in the American film genre of Black horror, and will explore the potential radical and emancipatory potential of the aesthetic representation of the horrors of American Blackness.