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To Be Queer, Black, & Womxn: Self-Definition Of Queer Black Girlhood & Womxnhood In Film & Tv, Brittany Williams
To Be Queer, Black, & Womxn: Self-Definition Of Queer Black Girlhood & Womxnhood In Film & Tv, Brittany Williams
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This research explores the invisibility and marginalization of Queer Black women and girls in films and television and how these inaccurate depictions and stereotypes in media contribute to the real-world disenfranchisement and abuse of Queer Black women and girls in the United States. I highlight movies and tv episodes with Queer Black female characters and analyze how their character arcs and how their character is utilized to aid the plot within the film or series. I cite literature that examines homophobia, racism, and sexism, socially and institutionally in the US and highlight the research represented within these selected studies and …
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, …