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It's Disco, Baby: Queer Possibilities And Conservative Outrage, Lottie Bromham
It's Disco, Baby: Queer Possibilities And Conservative Outrage, Lottie Bromham
University Honors Theses
From 1974 to 1979, disco music was a cultural phenomenon, gracing radio airways and dance clubs across the United States. Just as disco music reached peak popularity, growing disapproval from rock fans and other Americans who saw the genre and scene as overly lavish, too effeminate, and too racially inclusive, forced disco out of American mainstream favor. This paper proposes a viewpoint that contextualizes disco culture as integral to the lives of queer people in New York City, analyzes the prejudices that accompanied the anti-disco movement, and situates the mainstream death of disco as an early cultural consequence of America's …
"Crush The Monster": Homosexuality And Moral Panic In 1950s Idaho, Ian Hadrick
"Crush The Monster": Homosexuality And Moral Panic In 1950s Idaho, Ian Hadrick
University Honors Theses
On October 31, 1955, three men were arrested and accused of performing homosexual acts in the quiet, suburban community of Boise, Idaho. The arrests set off a sweeping investigation of Boise's "widespread homosexual underground" that made national news and resulted in more than one thousand police interrogations and the conviction of fifteen homosexual Boiseans. Though Boise's moral panic and the ensuing investigation are among the largest of the sex panics of the 1950s, the city's 1955 homosexuality scandal has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. An in-depth analysis of the social, economic, and political forces that combined to produce hysteria in …
Cordel Corrido: What Are The Implications Of Creating A New Narrative Voice For Education?, Marco Ag Cerqueira
Cordel Corrido: What Are The Implications Of Creating A New Narrative Voice For Education?, Marco Ag Cerqueira
Northwest Journal of Teacher Education
In this article the author proposes queering the teaching of Brazilian and Mexican popular poetry, cordel and corrido, for students in high school or freshmen in college engaging with a curriculum of the brown bodies and aesthetic currere. The author criticizes the teaching of canonic literature in classrooms usually written by white, straight, and middle-class men, and proposes teaching popular poetry from Latin America as a project to interrupt that canon. Teaching and encouraging students to write poetry is a way to oppose the epistemicide in classrooms, and students of color (African descendants, Native peoples, and with roots in Latin …
Dignity, Respect, And Freedom, Lindsey Abercrombie
Dignity, Respect, And Freedom, Lindsey Abercrombie
Anthós
This paper looks at Irene Redfield, a character from Nella Larsen's Passing, analyzing how dignity is prioritized above all else in her life. Viewing Irene through the lenses of race, sexuality, and class, this paper delves into the intricacies of Irene's mind, attempting to contextualize her by her overt and repressed desires. Passing is a nuanced novel with complicated characters. Many scholars have attempted to understand the symbolism Larsen has imbued the novel with, producing insightful works to challenge the reader's initial perceptions of the novel and the characters. Through taking a deep-dive into Irene's mind, readers can become …
Letter From The Guest Editors: Putting Our Bodies On The Line: Towards A Capacious Vision Of Digital Activism, Ben Mccorkle, Jason Palmeri
Letter From The Guest Editors: Putting Our Bodies On The Line: Towards A Capacious Vision Of Digital Activism, Ben Mccorkle, Jason Palmeri
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
This is the editors' note to accompany the special issue on digital activism.
Queer The Tech: Genderfucking And Anti-Consumer Activism In Social Media, Matthew A. Vetter
Queer The Tech: Genderfucking And Anti-Consumer Activism In Social Media, Matthew A. Vetter
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
A companion text to a piece of online activist rhetoric, this essay attempts to explain how social media networks and other digital interfaces intercede and influence users' constructions of gender and consumer identity. Gaining awareness of the influence networks have over our lives, should empower users to appropriate and subvert those networks for alterior agendas. This essay, and the activism it introduces, demonstrates an appropriation of Pinterest, a "pinboard-style" social media network, for the purposes of suberting and exposing its typical hetero-normatie and pro-consumer practices.  Â
"And Then I Wrote Queerly Ever After...": A Performance, Madhu Narayan
"And Then I Wrote Queerly Ever After...": A Performance, Madhu Narayan
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Closets come in all shapes and sizes, and coming out takes many different forms.