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A Boring Day At The Clinic Is A Good Day At The Clinic: Narrative Inheritances Of Anti-Abortion Violence, Cassidy D. Ellis
A Boring Day At The Clinic Is A Good Day At The Clinic: Narrative Inheritances Of Anti-Abortion Violence, Cassidy D. Ellis
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
This paper autoethnographically interrogates the author’s personal experience as an abortion clinic patient escort. Based in a performance paradigm, the author uses performative writing to articulate her experiences and to argue for an emphasis of the body and embodiment in scholarship on anti-abortion violence that centers patients and providers. Additionally, the paper articulates the ways in which anti-abortion violence is storied and narratively inherited by abortion providers, which affects their identity related to their abortion work. Finally, the author demonstrates how internalized and embodied narratives of anti-abortion violence manifest in fear of unpredictability.
Queering Creativity: Why Maximalism Matters, Ac Panella
Queering Creativity: Why Maximalism Matters, Ac Panella
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
Creative studies has been a growing field that is often focused on either the psychological or social process. However, each of these approaches tends to erase the role of identity or political process. By introducing queer theory to creative theory we can start to see how the creative process is a way of challenging normative assumptions of being. This article will use the work of performance artist Taylor Mac as a focal point for the ways that queer identity and theory inform creative theory.
A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
This essay challenges textual dominance in academia by using music composition and performance as a method and representation of inquiry. I argue that this is a form of tactical resistance since it plays within the system, meeting requirements but challenging expectations. The resulting text from the project satisfies academic requirements for a written text, but subverts expectations as to the form that text should take. I provide the musical score and a discussion of the creation and performance of the composition to show how even when attempting to abandon textualism, we are still constrained by it. Despite this, I present …
Precognition: Bodies In Network, Kate Hoyt
Precognition: Bodies In Network, Kate Hoyt
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
Precognition” is an installation that seeks to explore the liminal space between actor and environment, human and technology, and self and Other through the performativity of flow. Deleuze and Guattari use the term “flow” to describe a deliberately imprecise way of knowing or understanding meaning beyond, across, and within the existing category of the form (trans. 1987). Within the materialist ontology of poststructuralism, it is not the form that matters so much as the substance - energies and affects entangle us with our surroundings, affording a radical questioning of the rational, contained self that remains so central to the Western, …