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Boys, Balls, And The Blues: The Erasure Of Genderqueer Bodies, Austin Mcgrath May 2018

Boys, Balls, And The Blues: The Erasure Of Genderqueer Bodies, Austin Mcgrath

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

The goal of this essay is to re-explore the concept of gender in its relation to genderqueer and nonbinary identities. Before its examination of the gender reveal party, this essay examines male and female, masculine and feminine, and man and woman, carefully critiquing and distinguishing biological sex from gender expression and gender identity using a Queer theoretical framework to contextualize these distinctions in relation to queer identities. Through a modern contextualization, linguistic analysis, and a critical media examination of gender reveal images and footage, this essay acknowledges and analyzes the heteronormative structures that reinforce gender binaries. It challenges the deployment …


On Being Trans: Narrative, Identity, Performance, And Community, Chloe Jo Brown Apr 2018

On Being Trans: Narrative, Identity, Performance, And Community, Chloe Jo Brown

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis focuses on various topics related to transgender identity and culture. Through a combination of ethnographic and secondary research, I studied transgender coming out narratives, trans media representation, transgender performance and identity, and conceptualizations of group and chosen family in a community of trans students, the WKU Transgender and Non-Binary Student Group.

The three chapters of my thesis address some of the traditional milestones of a trans person’s acculturation: coming out, constructing one’s newly discovered trans identity, and finding community. Chapter 1 explores coming out as transgender, and the way in in which coming out is valued and discussed …


Gay Shame And Bdsm Pride: Neoliberalism, Privacy, And Sexual Politics, Margot D. Weiss Dec 2007

Gay Shame And Bdsm Pride: Neoliberalism, Privacy, And Sexual Politics, Margot D. Weiss

Margot Weiss

This essay contrasts two contemporary activist groups: Gay Shame San Francisco, which seeks to disrupt homonormative lesbian and gay activism by challenging policing and gentrification; and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, which disseminates a public image of BDSM, leather, and kinky practitioners as suburban minivan drivers who “look and dress like your neighbors.” Margot Weiss argues that neoliberalism’s relegation of sexuality into the realm of the private renders even kinky sexual practices like BDSM normative—kink-normative, if not homonormative—by detaching potentially disruptive sexual practices from any form of radical or progressive—public—politics.


"'Mira, Yo Soy Boricua Y Estoy Aquí': Rafa Negrón's Pan Dulce And The Queer Sonic Latinaje Of San Francisco", Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Dec 2006

"'Mira, Yo Soy Boricua Y Estoy Aquí': Rafa Negrón's Pan Dulce And The Queer Sonic Latinaje Of San Francisco", Horacio N. Roque Ramirez

Horacio N Roque Ramirez, Ph.D.

For a little more than eight months in 1996–1997, Calirican Rafa Negron promoted his queer Latino nightclub “Pan Dulce” in San Francisco. A concoction of multiple genders, sexualities, and aesthetic styles, Pan Dulce created an opportunity for making urban space and claiming visibilities and identities among queer Latinas and Latinos through music, performance, and dance. Building on the region’s decades-old lgbt/queer history, and specifically diasporic queer Puerto Rican and Caribbean cultures, Pan Dulce became a powerful site for latinaje: the multilayered hybrid process of creating Latina and Latino worlds and cultures from below. In the context of HIV and AIDS, …


Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Spring 2006), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center Apr 2006

Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Spring 2006), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center

Reach out : the newsletter of Maine Speakout Project (2004-2006)

No abstract provided.


Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Fall 2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center Oct 2005

Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Fall 2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center

Reach out : the newsletter of Maine Speakout Project (2004-2006)

No abstract provided.


Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Summer 2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center Jul 2005

Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Summer 2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center

Reach out : the newsletter of Maine Speakout Project (2004-2006)

No abstract provided.


The Newsletter (Fall 2004), Pam Mccann, Maine Speakout Project Oct 2004

The Newsletter (Fall 2004), Pam Mccann, Maine Speakout Project

Newsletter / Maine Speakout Project (2004)

No abstract provided.


Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Winter 2004-2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center Jan 2004

Reach Out: The Newsletter Of Maine Speakout Project (Winter 2004-2005), Maine Speakout Project, Community Counseling Center

Reach out : the newsletter of Maine Speakout Project (2004-2006)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.5, No. 3 (Fall 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Nancy Audet, Maine Rural Network Oct 2002

Network News, Vol.5, No. 3 (Fall 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Nancy Audet, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.5, No.[2] ([Summer] 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network Jul 2002

Network News, Vol.5, No.[2] ([Summer] 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.5, No. 1 (Spring 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network Apr 2002

Network News, Vol.5, No. 1 (Spring 2002), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.4, No. 3 (Fall 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network Oct 2001

Network News, Vol.4, No. 3 (Fall 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Msop Newsletter (Fall 2001), Maine Speakout Project Oct 2001

Msop Newsletter (Fall 2001), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.4, No. 2 (Summer 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network Jul 2001

Network News, Vol.4, No. 2 (Summer 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.4, No. 1 (Spring 2001), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Apr 2001

Network News, Vol.4, No. 1 (Spring 2001), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Msop Newsletter (Spring 2001), Maine Speakout Project Apr 2001

Msop Newsletter (Spring 2001), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.4, No. 4 (Winter 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network Jan 2001

Network News, Vol.4, No. 4 (Winter 2001), Naomi Winterfalcon, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News ([November 2000]), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Nov 2000

Network News ([November 2000]), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.3, No. 3 (Fall 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Oct 2000

Network News, Vol.3, No. 3 (Fall 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.3, No. 2 (Summer 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Jul 2000

Network News, Vol.3, No. 2 (Summer 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Msop Newsletter (Spring 2000), Maine Speakout Project Apr 2000

Msop Newsletter (Spring 2000), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.3, No. 1 (Spring 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Apr 2000

Network News, Vol.3, No. 1 (Spring 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.5, No.1 (March 2000), M. Lichtman Mar 2000

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.5, No.1 (March 2000), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.3, No. 4 (Winter 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Jan 2000

Network News, Vol.3, No. 4 (Winter 2000), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.2, No. 3 (Fall 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Oct 1999

Network News, Vol.2, No. 3 (Fall 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Msop Newsletter (Fall/Winter 1999), Maine Speakout Project Oct 1999

Msop Newsletter (Fall/Winter 1999), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.6 (September-October 1999), M. Lichtman Sep 1999

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.6 (September-October 1999), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.2, No. 2 (Summer 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Jul 1999

Network News, Vol.2, No. 2 (Summer 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.


Network News, Vol.2, No. 1 (Spring 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network Apr 1999

Network News, Vol.2, No. 1 (Spring 1999), Naomi Falcone, Maine Rural Network

Network news (1998-2002)

No abstract provided.