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Refusals And Re-Creations: Imagining Utopia Through Black Lesbian Affect In Modern Dance, Shayla K. Robinson
Refusals And Re-Creations: Imagining Utopia Through Black Lesbian Affect In Modern Dance, Shayla K. Robinson
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This project explores how Black lesbian affectivity performed through dance, which includes gestures, comportment, expressions, etc., can provide a utopian framework of political and social organizing against white supremacist heteronormative hegemony. These affective performances create spaces of resistance within modern dance choreographies. These affective moments and performances demonstrate alternative forms of individual and collective existence in both the dance space and daily life. By examining the works of modern dancer Nora Chipaumire and the social justice dance theater ensemble, the Urban Bush Women, this project argues that Chipaumire and Urban Bush women use disidentification, affective performances, queer utopia and shapeshifting, …
Bitches Be Like...: Memes As Black Girl Counter And Disidentification Tools, Sesali Bowen
Bitches Be Like...: Memes As Black Girl Counter And Disidentification Tools, Sesali Bowen
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Memes are a popular source of online media. As such, they become tools that can distribute racialized and gendered narratives. While memes are often a source of shaming and devaluing Black girls, my research also explores how they can be used as tools to counter and disidentify with narratives. Using Hip-Hop feminism and trap feminism as frameworks, I analyze several memes to not only exemplify the hegemonic narratives of Black girlhood that circulate via memes, but to illuminate the possibilities for resistance and transformation via this technology.