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Mascs: Masculinity Reimagined, Josh Porter
Mascs: Masculinity Reimagined, Josh Porter
Graduate Thesis Exhibition Catalogue Gallery, 2023
MASCS: Masculinity Reimagined explores how performances of contemporary masculinities can counteract traditional binary understandings of gender. Justin Korver, John Paul Morabito, Betsy Odom, Moises Salazar, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell expose, question, and subvert the ways that we culturally define masculinity by focusing on gender as performance. These artists not only critique cisgender, heteronormative binary understandings of masculinity, but also embrace the performative nature of gender and celebrate non-normative, alternative, and queer masculinities. By encompassing a range of gender and sexual identifications, these artists share their own personal experiences, interpretations, performances, rejections, and embodiments of masculinity. Breaking down the barrier created …
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Sociology Student Work Collection
As long as they have been around, princesses and superheroes have been the most prominent figures in children's media. This project focuses on how the gender expectations in this media affects children and how they participate in and see the world.