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Flyer For Safety Awareness & Assault Prevention For The Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Community, Eagles Sep 9999

Flyer For Safety Awareness & Assault Prevention For The Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Community, Eagles

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Flyer for a self defence class for the LGBTQ community.


Flyer For The Annual Buffalo Pride Parade & Rally, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Community Network, Inc Jun 9999

Flyer For The Annual Buffalo Pride Parade & Rally, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Community Network, Inc

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Flyer for the Annual Buffalo Pride Parade & Rally.


Flyer For The Cuckoo's Nest, The Cuckoo's Nest Jan 9999

Flyer For The Cuckoo's Nest, The Cuckoo's Nest

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Advertisement for the Cuckoo's Nest, featuring nightly drink specials.


Aids Service Providers Consortium Of Western New York Pamphlet, Aids Service Providers Consortium Of Western New York Jan 9999

Aids Service Providers Consortium Of Western New York Pamphlet, Aids Service Providers Consortium Of Western New York

HIV/AIDS Educational Material

Pamphlet containing information about the Aids Service Providers Consortium of Western New York.


Pamphlet For Benedict House, Benedict House Jan 9999

Pamphlet For Benedict House, Benedict House

HIV/AIDS Educational Material

Pamphlet containing information on Benedict House.


The Harm Reduction Program, Buffalo Columbus Hospital Jan 9999

The Harm Reduction Program, Buffalo Columbus Hospital

HIV/AIDS Educational Material

Pamphlet containing information on the Harm Reduction Program provided through the Buffalo Columbus Hospital.


All Women Dance, Unknown Lesbian/ Feminist Group Jan 9999

All Women Dance, Unknown Lesbian/ Feminist Group

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Flyer for an All Women's Dance.


Safe Sex A How-To Guide, Act Up Western New York Jan 9999

Safe Sex A How-To Guide, Act Up Western New York

HIV/AIDS Educational Material

Handout in English and Spanish containing information on safe sex practices, including: condom instruction, local STI statistics, and information on HIV/AIDS.


Facts You Should Know, Western New York Aids Program Jan 9999

Facts You Should Know, Western New York Aids Program

HIV/AIDS Educational Material

Pamphlet containing information on HIV and where to receive help.


Between The Lens And The Gaze: Reflections Of Femininity In Film, Noureen Sakr Jan 2027

Between The Lens And The Gaze: Reflections Of Femininity In Film, Noureen Sakr

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the male gaze’s construction of femininity through the use of glass and reflective surfaces, particularly mirrors, windows, glasses, and cameras in film. Reflections and depictions of women are recurring motifs in cinema, often symbolizing dynamics of perception and power. This thesis mobilizes related psychoanalytic and feminist conceptions to examine and compare the recurring visual motifs in the following films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Rear Window (1954), Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992), & Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010). This thesis employs a qualitative, interdisciplinary methodology that integrates psychoanalytic theory, feminist film theory, literary criticism …


Intersectional Realities And Adaptive Leadership: A Phenomenological Study Of Black Women Administrators In Higher Education, Jocelyn Vernet Dec 2026

Intersectional Realities And Adaptive Leadership: A Phenomenological Study Of Black Women Administrators In Higher Education, Jocelyn Vernet

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Existing literature consistently documents the acute underrepresentation of Black women in administrative leadership. Furthermore, Black women administrators that are represented and visible in higher education often oversee programs and task forces that heighten their experiences to high-risk situations. Emerging narratives suggest Black women employ effective coping strategies and embrace opportunities to strengthen and cultivate support networks while in their leadership roles. However, there is a significant lack in understanding how these strategies are structured and sustained to overcome the underrepresentation of Black women administrators in higher education. Additionally, basing their experiences solely through a survival lens limits a deeper understanding …


A Journey To The Midwest For Migrant Farmwork: Women's Testimonies Examining Their Lived Experiences Using Autoethnography And Plática Research Methodologies, Yesenia G. Alcalá Dec 2026

A Journey To The Midwest For Migrant Farmwork: Women's Testimonies Examining Their Lived Experiences Using Autoethnography And Plática Research Methodologies, Yesenia G. Alcalá

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of my research was to share the stories of five women who experienced a yearly migratory routine from Del Rio, Texas, to work in farms and factories in the Midwest, and how that annual journey shaped and educated us. The women are four of my older sisters and me, all of whom traveled and worked in the Princeville, Illinois, migrant camp, where we experienced the lifestyle as children, teenage workers, and some of us as parents, chasing the benefits of seasonal migrant farmwork. Our stories were based on our experiences with migrant farmwork culture, memories of our yearly …


Lost In Chaos: The Battle Between Selfcare And Motherhood, Sarah Shahzad Nov 2026

Lost In Chaos: The Battle Between Selfcare And Motherhood, Sarah Shahzad

MS Marketing Research Projects/Theses

Motherhood in collectivist societies such as Pakistan is deeply intertwined with caregiving, leaving limited space for women’s self-care or personal well-being. This study explores how young Pakistani mothers negotiate self-care within competing expectations of maternal sacrifice, cultural morality, and structural constraints. Guided by the Institutional Logics Perspective (ILP), it examines how familial norms, religious values, and market forces collectively shape women’s self-care practices, framing self-care not as an autonomous act but as a negotiated process embedded within social and institutional boundaries. This study adopts an interpretive phenomenological approach to explore how Pakistani mothers experience and negotiate self-care within cultural and …


I Don't Have Enough Room To Stretch My Legs -- A Visual Exploration Of Black And Queer Identity, Elyas Rodney Nov 2026

I Don't Have Enough Room To Stretch My Legs -- A Visual Exploration Of Black And Queer Identity, Elyas Rodney

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

My practice investigates the nuances of Black and queer identity, including my evolving relationship to Black girlhood and womanhood, honoring my Black and queer elders, and navigating the emotional and social dimensions of transitioning. Using sculpture, papermaking and relief printmaking, I create a physical representation of my fears and truths. I explore themes of cultural identity through a repeated visual motif printed on paper made from old middle school clothing. My process is multidisciplinary because the subject matter is multidimensional. The nuances of the Black and queer experience must be told in a queer way (as in 'strange' or 'unconventional'). …


Silent Awakening: Female Agency And Societal Moral Contradiction In Victorian Art And Literature, Jayden S. Crespo Nov 2026

Silent Awakening: Female Agency And Societal Moral Contradiction In Victorian Art And Literature, Jayden S. Crespo

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

The Victorian era was marked by rapid technological, religious, and societal modernization that impacted the art and literature of the time. Queen Victoria, whose name became an eponym for her sixty-three-year reigning period from 1837 to 1901, was a figure who demonstrated domestic propriety and moral responsibility during this time of rapid change. However, while social morality and familial traditional roles were highly esteemed, marital infidelity began to increase as prostitution rose in rapid numbers. With traditional ideals placing women on fragile angelic pedestals that would shatter with any sexual relations outside marriage, consensual or not, Victorian society was faced …


On The ‘Éowynization’ Of Sita In Ashok Banker’S And Amish Tripathi’S Ramayana-Based Fantasies, Sonali A. Chunodkar Nov 2026

On The ‘Éowynization’ Of Sita In Ashok Banker’S And Amish Tripathi’S Ramayana-Based Fantasies, Sonali A. Chunodkar

Journal of Tolkien Research

The global popularity of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings following Peter Jackson’s film adaptations led some English-language authors to adaptively retell Hindu religio-mythological epic narratives like the Ramayana in a Tolkienian fantasy vein. Ashok K. Banker’s eight-volumed Ramayana series, published from 2003 to 2012, is the first such fantasy series that displays a marked ‘Tolkienization’ of the Ramayana story. Both Tolkien’s and Banker’s respective fantasy series further left their discernable trace in Amish Tripathi’s four-volumed Ram Chandra Series, published from 2015 to 2022. This presentation focuses on the trajectory of a Tolkienian transformation of the …


Representasi Visual Tokoh Kiran Dalam Film Tuhan, Izinkan Aku Berdosa: Analisis Semiotika John Fiske, Yunika Wardhani, Pranti Sayekti Nov 2026

Representasi Visual Tokoh Kiran Dalam Film Tuhan, Izinkan Aku Berdosa: Analisis Semiotika John Fiske, Yunika Wardhani, Pranti Sayekti

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This study examines the visual representation of Kiran in Hanung Bramantyo’s film Harlot’s Prayer using John Fiske’s semiotic framework, encompassing the levels of reality, representation, and ideology. A qualitative descriptive-analytical approach was employed to examine 15 purposively selected scenes. Data were collected through film observation, interviews with four expert informants, and literature and document reviews. Source triangulation was used to assess the credibility of the interpretations. At the level of reality, behavioral codes convey solidarity among women, rejection of bodily objectification, and resistance to sexual violence. At the level of representation, camera angles and shot distances illustrate Kiran’s transition from …


Drawing Out Remarkable Communities, Bailey Ennig Nov 2026

Drawing Out Remarkable Communities, Bailey Ennig

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay examines how an unused classroom whiteboard evolved into a student-driven site of relational art and community building. Initially left blank, the whiteboard became a shared drawing space as students began to doodle informally, returning regularly to contribute and interact. Over time, these collective drawing practices fostered friendships, cross-grade connections, and a sense of belonging grounded in shared pop culture interests and creative play. Drawing on theories of relational aesthetics (Bourriaud, 2002), creative ecosystems (Harris, 2021), and connected learning (Ito et al., 2019), the whiteboard functioned as a dynamic social space shaped by student agency rather than teacher …


The Humidity Of Living: Walking, Permeability, And Care As Embodied Research Practice, Lyndsay Mckay Nov 2026

The Humidity Of Living: Walking, Permeability, And Care As Embodied Research Practice, Lyndsay Mckay

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual-textual essay traces walking as an embodied research methodology situated at the intersection of autoethnography, material feminist theory, and practices of care. Drawing on nursing-informed sensorial attunement and site-responsive observation, the work follows a pedestrian route through urban and coastal landscapes to examine how bodies, infrastructures, atmospheres, and more-than-human matter co-produce perception. Through photographic documentation and poetic narrative, the project foregrounds permeability as a methodological stance—one that resists detached observation in favor of affective, relational, and trans-corporeal engagement. Concepts from Ingold’s correspondence, Alaimo’s trans-corporeality, Mol’s logic of care, and Benner’s embodied expertise are woven into lived encounters with decay, …


Inequities In Agency And Post-Surrogacy Impact On Surrogate Mothers In India, Sheela Suryanarayanan Dr., Sudarshan Saravanan Mr. Nov 2026

Inequities In Agency And Post-Surrogacy Impact On Surrogate Mothers In India, Sheela Suryanarayanan Dr., Sudarshan Saravanan Mr.

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

India became a global hub for commercial surrogacy because surrogate mothers had fewer rights over their own bodies and the child born, and had no agency in medical interventions during surrogacy, until the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 prohibited transnational and commercial surrogacy in India. Studies have found detrimental physical and emotional health impacts of surrogacy on surrogate mothers in several developing countries. Economic coercion limits the agency and bargaining capacity of surrogate mothers, leading to unjust surrogacy contracts. Mandatory retention at surrogate homes, separation from family, surveillance, social stigma, secrecy, and a disconnect from the intended parents and surrogacy children …


Empowering Women In Community-Based Tourism: A Close Look At Tourism Villages, Tristanti Tristanti, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Mulyanto Mulyanto, Ratna Devi Sakuntalawati Oct 2026

Empowering Women In Community-Based Tourism: A Close Look At Tourism Villages, Tristanti Tristanti, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Mulyanto Mulyanto, Ratna Devi Sakuntalawati

The Qualitative Report

This study examines women's empowerment in community-based tourism in Nglanggeran Tourist Village, Indonesia. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, it explores how women experience the empowerment process within a rural tourism setting. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with five women actively involved in tourism activities and analyzed thematically. Findings show that empowerment follows five interconnected stages: raising awareness through women's groups, identifying programs based on local tourism potential, designing need-based initiatives, implementing training and mentoring, and evaluating programs through participatory discussions. Active participation and integration of local resources drive the process. Participants reported greater self-confidence, positive mindset changes, improved employment …


Arbiya, Hamida T. Riahi Oct 2026

Arbiya, Hamida T. Riahi

Journal of International Women's Studies

This short story narrates the lived experience of a young, rural, Tunisian student confronting the intersecting oppressions of class, gender, and regional marginalization in her pursuit of higher education. Positioned as an arbiya—a term loaded with regionalist and classist disdain—the protagonist is marked as inferior within the urban academic milieu. Her daily struggles with poverty, hunger, and moral scrutiny reveal the precarious conditions under which many women students from rural backgrounds must survive. The dormitory space, far from being a refuge, exposes her to exploitation, judgment, and social surveillance. The story reaches its emotional apex when her lover’s urban bourgeois …


Birthing In A Foreign Land, Sadhiya Saleem Oct 2026

Birthing In A Foreign Land, Sadhiya Saleem

Journal of International Women's Studies

This narrative poem explores the embodied experience of childbirth in a foreign land. Set within the unfamiliar environment of a hospital far from the speaker’s linguistic roots, the poem traces the physical and emotional landscape of labor as one profoundly shaped by displacement and disconnection. Through sensory imagery and fragmented memory, it portrays how giving birth in an unfamiliar context amid the absence of familiar support systems and linguistic comfort creates a profound sense of bodily estrangement. The poem enters broader feminist conversations to reclaim the maternal body, marked by migration and displacement, as a definitive site of memory and …


Film Review: Ajmer 92, Investigative Journalism, And Justice For Rape Survivors, Amit Sharma, Amitabh Srivastava Oct 2026

Film Review: Ajmer 92, Investigative Journalism, And Justice For Rape Survivors, Amit Sharma, Amitabh Srivastava

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.


Film Review: Education As A Legal Right, Yet A Socially Negotiated Privilege: A Feminist Review Of Sthal (A Match), Ankit Anand, Rajneesh Kumar Oct 2026

Film Review: Education As A Legal Right, Yet A Socially Negotiated Privilege: A Feminist Review Of Sthal (A Match), Ankit Anand, Rajneesh Kumar

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.


Film Review: Queer Happiness And Family Myth In My Therapist Said, I Am Full Of Sadness, Ni Luh Ayu Sukmawati Oct 2026

Film Review: Queer Happiness And Family Myth In My Therapist Said, I Am Full Of Sadness, Ni Luh Ayu Sukmawati

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.


Gender-Based Violence, Legal Protection, And Intersecting Narratives: A Conversation With Flavia Agnes, Barnana Baidya, Partha Bhattacharjee Oct 2026

Gender-Based Violence, Legal Protection, And Intersecting Narratives: A Conversation With Flavia Agnes, Barnana Baidya, Partha Bhattacharjee

Journal of International Women's Studies

Flavia Agnes is a leading advocate for gender justice because of her legal expertise in marital law, divorce, and property law and her activism as an Indian women’s rights lawyer. Her scholarly work on systemic and legal gender-based oppression has appeared in the journals Subaltern Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and Manushi. Her book, My Story...Our Story of Rebuilding Broken Lives, released by her non-profit organization named Majlis, depicts how Agnes battled domestic violence while addressing the law’s restrictive abilities to offer protection. We conducted an interview through Google Meet with Agnes to discuss her work as a legal activist …


Book Review Essay: The Keloid As Episteme—Corporeal Healing And Colonial Afterlives In Sarah Soanirina Ohmer’S The Keloids We Heal, Md Samiul Azim, Farida Parvin Oct 2026

Book Review Essay: The Keloid As Episteme—Corporeal Healing And Colonial Afterlives In Sarah Soanirina Ohmer’S The Keloids We Heal, Md Samiul Azim, Farida Parvin

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Reproductive Labor And Innovation: Against The Tech Fix In An Era Of Hype, Lipika Kankaria Oct 2026

Book Review: Reproductive Labor And Innovation: Against The Tech Fix In An Era Of Hype, Lipika Kankaria

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review: All She Lost: The Explosion In Lebanon, The Collapse Of A Nation, And The Women Who Survive, Noor Obeid Oct 2026

Book Review: All She Lost: The Explosion In Lebanon, The Collapse Of A Nation, And The Women Who Survive, Noor Obeid

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.