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His Way, Hannah Eiger
“Letting Kids Be Kids”: Youth Voice And Activism To Reform Foster Care And Promote “Normalcy”, Bernard P. Perlmutter
“Letting Kids Be Kids”: Youth Voice And Activism To Reform Foster Care And Promote “Normalcy”, Bernard P. Perlmutter
Books and Book Chapters
In this chapter, I examine stories that foster care youth tell to legislatures, courts, policymakers, and the public to influence policy decisions. The stories told by these children are analogized to victim truth testimony, analyzed as a therapeutic, procedural, and developmental process, and examined as a catalyst for systemic accountability and change. Youth stories take different forms and appear in different media: testimony in legislatures, courts, research surveys or studies; opinion editorials and interviews in newspapers or blog posts; digital stories on YouTube; and artistic expression. Lawyers often serve as conduits for youth storytelling, translating their clients’ stories to the …
Face, Identity, And Normalcy: Systems Of Support For Individuals With Clefts Of Lip And Palate, Ariane Farris
Face, Identity, And Normalcy: Systems Of Support For Individuals With Clefts Of Lip And Palate, Ariane Farris
Summer Research
This summer I conducted a project studying the stigma of facial anomalies through the eyes of the health care professionals who work with patients who have them. My goal was to learn what kind of stigma these individuals deal with and what kinds of support systems are available to help these individuals thrive in a society that values the concept of normalcy. I believe that this research is particularly important because of the large number of individuals who have a facial anomaly of some sort and because it relates to many other forms of stigma tied to the perception of …
Contemporary Theatre In Catalonia: A Story Of Creative Struggles, Sharon G. Feldman
Contemporary Theatre In Catalonia: A Story Of Creative Struggles, Sharon G. Feldman
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
The term “normalization” is typically employed within Catalan political and linguistic circles to refer to the process of recuperation, revival, and relegitimization of Catalan cultural and intellectual life that ensued following the period of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). Here, to be “normal” is to move from the periphery to the centre, to be regarded as valid rather than illicit, and to be visible and vociferous—even obvious and everyday—instead of obstructed, silenced, or relegated to the margins of exile, the recesses of memory, or the darkness of invisibility. The path along which the contemporary Catalan theatre scene has struggled to recover …