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The Commercialization Of The Atlanta Pride Festival: “Somebody's Got To Pay For It”, Sarah Beasley
The Commercialization Of The Atlanta Pride Festival: “Somebody's Got To Pay For It”, Sarah Beasley
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis is focused on the commercialization of the Atlanta Pride Festival during the years 1992-1997. Through personal interviews, I have concluded that the Atlanta Pride Festival produced complicated experiences for participants who had mixed feelings about the commercialization.
The Politics Of Impossibility: Cece Mcdonald And Trayvon Martin— The Bursting Of Black Rage, Taryn Jordan
The Politics Of Impossibility: Cece Mcdonald And Trayvon Martin— The Bursting Of Black Rage, Taryn Jordan
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and …
Cooking Up Authenticity: Latina Celebrities, Cookbooks, And Consumerism, Siobhan Cooke
Cooking Up Authenticity: Latina Celebrities, Cookbooks, And Consumerism, Siobhan Cooke
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis examines contradictory stereotypes navigated by Latina celebrities within dominant representations of Latina identity. On one hand, Latinas are represented as traditional and family-oriented and on the other hand are understood as exotic and hypersexual. I argue that the marketing and content of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan serve to perpetuate dominant stereotypes about what it means to be/cook/eat Latina, which limits the possibilities for relating to food and creates a narrative of a static, homogenous Latina identity. By performing rhetorical analysis of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan, I illustrate the …
Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, And Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock
Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, And Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
As a popular culture subject, Taylor Swift is an example of a widely circulated image that adheres to the guidelines for “appropriate” girlhood, innocence, and feminine performance. The proliferation of Swift’s identity as a virginal, delicate girl makes Swift the successful pop music figure that can “save” the troubled young girl of today. This thesis grapples with Swift’s image as an artist and addresses the ways that she often stands in as the example for imagined “appropriate” femininity. Swift’s image relies on ideas about innocence and normativity that are directly linked to markers of whiteness without ever having to explicitly …
Paying For The Gift Of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Intown Academy Of Atlanta, Scott Nesbit
Paying For The Gift Of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Intown Academy Of Atlanta, Scott Nesbit
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
In my critical discourse analysis of The Intown Academy's (TIA) various documents and media—including the school's charter petition, charter, Parent-Student Handbook, and website—I articulate the school's subjectifying narratives and analyze how these narratives function to (re)produce particular subjects according to tropes of threat/crisis, opportunity, corporate/non-profit benevolence, and personal responsibility. Identifying these subjects, I analyze how they are effected/affected by the practice of education at TIA. To this end, I examine the various practices of school discipline codified in the Parent and Student Contracts in TIA's 2012-2013 Parent Student Handbook, including mandates for the wearing of school uniforms, volunteer labor, and …
Femininity And Masculinity In Indonesian Popular Music Videos, Hannah Carswell
Femininity And Masculinity In Indonesian Popular Music Videos, Hannah Carswell
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This work fills a gap in research on Indonesian popular culture by delving into the presentation of femininity and masculinity in Indonesian music videos. Through a textual analysis of four videos, a survey of the video YouTube comments, and interviews with Indonesians about these videos, the author examines the presentation of Order/Chaos and other Male/Female binaries in the music videos and their relationship with the current pop culture and political environment.
Performing Specters Of Imperialism: Affect, Terror, And The Body In Naveed Mir's The Cinco Sanders Show, Andrea Miller
Performing Specters Of Imperialism: Affect, Terror, And The Body In Naveed Mir's The Cinco Sanders Show, Andrea Miller
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Examining the work of Pakistani-American performance artist Naveed Mir’s The Cinco Sanders Show, this thesis explores Mir’s work as conjuring the specters of the terrorist, tortured, and targeted bodies of the U.S. war on terror and unpacks ghosting/haunting as a primary technology of U.S. imperialism. Through close readings of Mir’s characters Party Mummy and Mohammed the Plumber, I argue that Mir’s affective performance style evokes and complicates what I refer to as the three decorporealizing logics of the war on terror: the body-made-threat, the body-made-target, and the body-made torture. Understanding these processes as violent forms of racialization that take …
Resisting Tropes, Inserting Selves: An Interpretative Biographical Analysis Of The Life Writings Of Mixed Race Women Writers, Erin M. George
Resisting Tropes, Inserting Selves: An Interpretative Biographical Analysis Of The Life Writings Of Mixed Race Women Writers, Erin M. George
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis focuses on the patterns of racial formation, and epistemological points of entry that are salient to the mulatta experience in the United States, through the use of life writings. The results gleaned from this research are utilized to problematize revived political and social assertions of a post-feminist, post-racist United States.
It Makes Atlanta Feel Like A Real City: Biopolitical Urbanism And Public Art On The Atlanta Beltline, Sherah Faulkner
It Makes Atlanta Feel Like A Real City: Biopolitical Urbanism And Public Art On The Atlanta Beltline, Sherah Faulkner
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Functioning as both a light rail transit project and comprehensive redevelopment program, the Atlanta BeltLine is widely expected to impact the city of Atlanta as profoundly did 1996 Olympic Games. In this paper, the Atlanta BeltLine is examined as a biopolitical project and the manners in which its public arts program, Art on Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, works to secure local consent redevelopment are explored.
J-Setting In Public: Black Queer Desires And Worldmaking, Lamont Loyd-Sims
J-Setting In Public: Black Queer Desires And Worldmaking, Lamont Loyd-Sims
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
My research provides an inquiry of Black southern queerness situated through the artistic performance of j-setting. I explore j-setting as a dance style created by Black gay men by mapping out its beginnings, and how it has (not) traveled through mainstream culture. With this in mind I interrogate how j-setting exists as a cultural scene for Black queer men in the South to celebrate who we are, while also representing a strategy for our survival against racism, heteronormativity, and other dominant forces that pathologize our realities. This project suggests that an exploration of j-setting exemplifies the resilience and vulnerabilities of …