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Spit Brimming With Futures, Penny Molesso

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

SPIT BRIMMING WITH FUTURES is an immersive video and audio installation that uses ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) to investigate the intersection of transgender and neurodivergent identity, expressing an urgent need to imagine stories about transgender, autistic people that affirm our agency and autonomy amidst a political climate that weaponizes neurodivergence to delegitimize trans experiences. The American political right’s vilification of transgender people is used to uphold structures of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy that become destabilized when rigid binary gender categories are challenged. The political right has a vested interest in keeping trans people out of public view, thus weaponizing …

Choice-Based Games And Resilience Building Of Gender Non-Conforming Individuals: An Exploratory Study, Yuri M. Cantrell

Masters Theses

Research on gaming and user experience of the general population has been abundant, but gender non-conforming (GNC) individuals’ experiences had been largely overlooked until recent years. Using a phenomenological approach, the goal of this study is to find deeper understanding of this phenomenon by exploring what gaming experiences shape the identity of the participants. The exploration of gaming and gender non-conforming experiences through interviews can fill a gap in the current literature on gaming culture regarding this specific population. By taking a closer look at this topic, patterns and themes within games may provide insight to potential resilience building activities …

It's Not All Rainbows & Glitter, Jerry B. Lockaby

LSU Master's Theses

The goal of this exhibition is to contextualize the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community by anchoring personal stories with collage and poetry to demonstrate the ongoing difficulties of growing up queer. Mixed media digitized collages have been created and paired with companion typographic treatments of poems and narratives from diverse points of view.

The word queer as a term to describe gay men, lesbians, and other non-conforming sexual identities, has evolved over the past 100 years. This evolution of the word parallels the struggles of LGBTQ+ people to achieve equal rights, marriage equality, protection in housing and employment, and an …

[Un]Seen, Al Benbow

Honors Projects

[un]seen is a community-centered project and installation that consists of a collection of portraits and statements from underrepresented members of the LGBTQ+ community. Each subject submits their own action item that depends on their identity and response to the question, “what do you wish people understood about the experience of being [your identity]?”

This project was initially born out of research into the commodification of LGBTQ+ identities, and the realization that corporations tend to market to members of the LGBTQ+ community who they believe have the most spending power: white, cisgender, able-bodied, upper class, gay men, and therefore most often …

A Study In Transparency, Rachel Wilson

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

In a generation that feels more lost than ever, we need transparency in order to feel less alone. We need to see others, and we need to truly see ourselves. This is my way of being seen, and in turn, helping others to feel seen and understood. When I was in middle school I began to record my daily life and thoughts in journals, which evolved to help me cope as I grew up. In putting these pages on display, I’m presenting myself. That’s Rachel Wilson. I’m a writer, a designer, an artist, maybe a song writer. Maybe a lot …

God Is Gay, Ordando Prieto, Ordando Prieto

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The major life of The Christ are well known among Christians and have been depicted throughout art history and contemporary media.

The juxtaposition using gay pornography is meant to question the ideologies of homosexuality. The choice life events and fetishes are to juxtapose terminology and show possible sexual innuendos.

These seven works of art are mixed media paintings; made up using works from art history, gay pornography, photographs I have taken, and drawing and painting by myself. The exhibition is an alternative perspective of the major components of Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ. These events include: The Nativity, The Baptism, The …

Tori Hong Interview, Eliza Lemus

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: Tori Hong is a self-taught visual artist exploring homelands and homecomings. In order to create meaning out of the often ambiguous, disruptive, and generative spaces they occupy, Hong creates narrative-driven illustrations, portraits, and zines. The people Hong centers in their work are LGBTQ Asian Americans and people with marginalized identities. Hong is based in Minneapolis, MN.

Teaching Critical Looking: Pedagogical Approaches To Using Comics As Queer Theory, Ashley Manchester

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

Given the challenging depth of queer theoretical concepts, this article argues that one of the most effective ways to teach the complexities of queer theory is by utilizing comics in the classroom. I focus on how college-level instructors can use the content, form, and history of comics to teach students how to enact and do queer theory. By reading and making comics, students learn concrete and theoretical tools for combatting oppressive discourses and modes of meaning making. Teaching comics as queer theory promotes both innovative critical thinking and critical looking skills by centralizing both the rich history of queer comics …

One Day This Kid Will Get Larger, Danny Orendorff

DePaul Art Museum Publications

One day this kid will get larger
Edited by Danny Orendorff
Designed by Charles Ryan Long

Table of Contents
Director’s Forward – Julie Rodrigues Widholm
One day this kid will get larger – Danny Orendorff
Artist Project: Untitled (our fight has just begun) – Rami George
“For My Daughter” – Shan Kelley
“On Borrowed Time – Revisited” – Katja Heinemann
“Reflections On Another Image: Black Teens Coming of Age” – Lenn Keller
Artist Project: A Repetition of Survival – Demian DinéYazhi’
Artist Project: You Came Here – Demian DinéYazhi’

Stories Of Otherness, Lee Ann Harrison

Graduate Theses

The thesis exhibition Stories of Otherness is an interactive installation created using dance, music, photography, video, ceramic figurative sculptures, and armatures of found objects to create a voyeuristic and physically participatory experience of situational art. Many artists from various art and literary genres influence my research and art, including Petah Coyne, Mona Hatoum, Pina Bausch, Mia Michaels, and Jeanette Winterson. The multi-faceted combination of art mediums and artists inspires me to create a mixed media, multi-dimensional installation for an immersive participant’s experience as a source for awareness, empathy, reflection, and ultimately as a “call to action” evoking change.

This thesis …

Mdocs Poster, 2016-3-8, Oriented, Michael Zhou

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 07/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Letter re: the murder of Charlie Howard
• Letter from Doris Raven Darkwing Foster
• Calendar Events
• YWCA of Lewiston/Auburn; Youth Intervention Programs
• The 4th New England Women's Musical Retreat
• The 9th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
• Third Annual Healing Ritual Gathering
• Interweave Benefit Concert in Memory of Charlie Howard

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar Events
• In Case You're Interested...
• Emma Dyke Advice Column
• Take Back the Night - 1984: Pornography and Violence Against Women by Lucie Bauer

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar Events
• Take Back the Night 1984 Coalition
• Waldoboro Days Triathalon
• National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights
• In Case You're Interested...
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 03-04/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• UMO Womyn's Center Womyn's Health Symposium on Sexism, Racism, Classism and Health Care
• Worry Column

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 02/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• Boycott Nestle Products
• Support Christine Madsen
• Books
• Personals
• Valentine's Day Dance
• The Worry Column
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 12/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• News
• Personals
• Courses
• A Chain Letter for Liberated Women
• Books

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 10/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• What's New?
• Singing & Marching for Peace & Justice at Seneca Falls
• The Worry Column

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 08/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• The Worry Column
• What's Going On
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 07/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• News
• Calendar July & August
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• What's New
• Books
• Poetry
• New Hope for Women Antique/Craft Fair

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• 10th Annual Maine Lesbian & Gay Symposium, University of Southern Maine
• Announcements
• Poetry
• Can I Lust With Integrity?
• On Building a Feminist Spiritual Community
• Personals

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 04/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• Let's Build Feminist Community
• More on JoAnn Newak
• Movies: Lianna
• Personals
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 09/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• The Female Paul Revere
• Gay Community News Offices Burn
• A Call For Material Out From Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 08/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• SBA Club Announcements
• Announcements
• Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
• Gay Dollar$ for Gay People

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Susan B. Anthony Club Announcements
• The Feminist Writer's Guild
• Announcements, Happenings, Things to Do, Places to Go!!
• I.G.A. Meets in Washington, D.C.
• United for Disarmament
• Poetry
• Kay Gardner: Benefit Concert for New Hope for Women

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• S.B.A. Club Announcements
• A Repeat of Some Important News...
• Announcements, Happenings, Things to Do, Places to Go!!!
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 10/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• MLF Announcements
• Women Unite Take Back the Night
• Regarding the Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 09/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar
• Announcements

Maine Lesbian Feminist 08/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting Minutes
• Sexuality Workshop
• Next Meeting and Directions
• Agenda
• Calendar
• Announcements
• Maine Women for a Nuclear Free Future