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We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro May 2018

We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro

Works of the FIU Libraries

This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.

Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …


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.


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.


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.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.5 (March-April 1999), M. Lichtman Mar 1999

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.4, No.5 (March-April 1999), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.3, No.4 (October-December [1998]), M. Lichtman Oct 1998

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.3, No.4 (October-December [1998]), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.2, No.3 (August- September 1998), M. Lichtman Aug 1998

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.2, No.3 (August- September 1998), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.2, No.1 (January-February 1998), M. Lichtman Jan 1998

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.2, No.1 (January-February 1998), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.8 (September 1997), M. Lichtman Sep 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.8 (September 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.7 (August 1997), M. Lichtman Aug 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.7 (August 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.6 (July 1997), M. Lichtman Jul 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.6 (July 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.5 (June 1997), M. Lichtman Jun 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.5 (June 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.4 (May 1997), M. Lichtman May 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.4 (May 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.3 (April 1997), M. Lichtman Apr 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.3 (April 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.


Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.2 (March 1997), M. Lichtman Mar 1997

Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.1, No.2 (March 1997), M. Lichtman

Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)

No abstract provided.