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Woman Flytrap, Brianna Jo Hobson

Student Theses and Dissertations

Woman FlyTrap is a short story zine collection that explores the topic of sexual violence through the perpetrator and victim relationship with an explicit lens. Replete with cultural and entomological themes and motifs, Woman Flytrap seeks to remind survivors that we are not alone. In our bodies or in our lives. Neither in the world. There are over a million insects to every human, proving that there is strength in numbers. All five stories in the collection present different abstracts: revenge, transformation, justice, healing, body image, self-harm, mourning, etc. There is also a playlist and a section about the author. …

Ladies Of Distinction: Examining Twentieth Century African American Socialites And Civil Rights, Mackenzie Mason

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Discontent post-war Philadelphians had a full list of problems which the city had been dealing with since the beginning of the Great Depression. Conditions in the city had deteriorated so badly that by the late 1930s, a group of young middle-to-upper-class professionals who called themselves “Young Turks” began advocating for postwar progressivism in the city. These wealthy white male lawyers, architects, and university professors frequently met and discussed their reformative ideas within intellectual associations and gentleman’s clubs. During this same time period and inside the same city, two African American women born into affluent families in Philadelphia desired to design …

Black Women White Standards, Carrie Selwood

The Civil Rights Movement (HIS/BLS 347) Zine Project

No abstract provided.

The Story Of Jennie Steers: An Examination Of Race, Gender, And Lynching In Northwest Louisiana, Lauren Smith

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

As the nineteenth century ended, the American South entered a new century equipped with the foundations of a Jim Crow society. Through political intimidation, segregation, and racial violence—most notoriously through the practice of lynching—white Southerners reasserted white supremacist rule. Yet the lynching of Black men in this era is more often documented than the plight of Black women at the hands of white mobs and local authorities. By focusing on Jennie Steers, a woman lynched outside of Shreveport, Louisiana in 1903, this project sheds light on the violent history of Northwest Louisiana and the ways in which Black women navigated …

"'Joo Wa Dare?' Who Is The Queen?" Queen Contests During The Wartime Incarceration Of Japanese Americans, Bailey Irene Midori Hoy

Madison Historical Review

This paper examines beauty pageants held at incarceration centers during the Japanese-American internment. Although there has been literature created on beauty pageants before and after WWII, there is very little information on these war-era pageants, despite their prolific nature. Using mostly primary sources and material culture, the paper examines the coverage of the contestants, clothing, and presentation within the Center’s newspapers and in coverage by the Wartime Relocation Authority, whilst also problematizing uncritical readings of these documents. This paper highlights the difficulty in determining agency within spaces of incarceration, and calls for further research on the subject.

One Among Many: Charlotte Kolmitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney In Seattle, 1918–1925, Anna Synya

Digital Legal Research Lab

One Among Many: Charlotte Kolmitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Seattle, 1918–1925

Research poster prepared for Digital Legal Research Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Yellow Fever” + Pornhub Statistics: A Sociological Sickness, Patricia Plachno

Audre Lorde Prize

This essay was written to explore the complexities behind "Yellow Fever," or the fetishization of Asian women. In further understanding the origins of "Yellow Fever", shining a light on historical stereotypes and microaggressions assist in problematizing this phenomenon. Pornhub's yearly statistics provide a tangible outline of the sheer volume of participants in racial fetishization.

Quote Transcript, We Exist Series 5: Stories Of Education And Employment In Maine, University Of Southern Maine Digital Projects

Quotes

Accompanying materials for We Exist Series 5: Stories of Education and Employment in Maine.

Malintzin: La Mujer Americana, Alma D. Elías Nájera

Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal

Malintzin was a controversial Indigenous woman whose contributions to the Aztec conquest raised questions about what it meant to be a traitor with a limited agency. This essay recontextualizes Malintzin’s demonized identity and challenges masculinist sociocultural curations of gender, history, and knowledge production by infusing feminist theory into the cultural imaginaries of gender and racial stratification. By reintroducing Malintzin as a feminist emblematic figure trying to regain selfhood within an exploitative White cisheteropatriarchal society, her existence gives voice to those silenced by the violence of colonization, Manhood, and gender oppression. To do this, the author takes up the work of …

Written Out : The Silencing Of Regina Gelana Twala, Joel Cabrita

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Systemic racism and sexism caused one of South Africa’s most important writers to disappear from public consciousness. Is it possible to justly restore her historical presence?

Regina Gelana Twala, a Black South African woman who died in 1968 in Swaziland (now Eswatini), was an extraordinarily prolific writer of books, columns, articles, and letters. Yet today Twala’s name is largely unknown. Her literary achievements are forgotten. Her books are unpublished. Her letters languish in the dusty study of a deceased South African academic. Her articles are buried in discontinued publications.

Joel Cabrita asserts that Twala’s posthumous obscurity has not developed accidentally …

Bibliography, Christy L. Spurlock

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Christy Spurlock.

Black Female Athletes’ Use Of Social Media For Activism: An Intersectional And Cyberfeminist Analysis Of U.S. Hammer-Thrower, Gwen Berry's 2019 And 2021 Podium Protests, Ariel Newell

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Much attention has been paid to Black male athlete activism both historically and in the contemporary movement for black lives. Black female athletes have also made historic contributions as activists, and they continue to do so. However, Black female athlete activism has not always been acknowledged or heard. This is a problem, as Black women in American sports and society face overlapping racial and gender inequities and injustices that distinctly marginalize and oppress them. However, some Black female athlete activists (BFAAs) have begun using social media to challenge media narratives about themselves, to redefine what it means to be a …

What Man Would Put Up With Me... Eartha White Carries Out The Prophecy Of Her Name, Angela Taylor

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

New clipping about Eartha Mary Magdalene White. Undated.

Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Biographical information on Eartha White. (Appears to be in her handwriting.) Undated.

Mother

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Poem "Mother" printed on a contribution form for the Old Folks Home. Undated.

Las Bexareñas And Their Wills: Women’S Material Culture And Cataloguing Practices In Spanish San Fernando De Béxar, Amy M. Porter

History Faculty Publications (Archived)

The women of San Fernando de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas) on the northern edge of New Spain faced the many challenges of frontier life. The belongings of these women were limited compared to that of women in other parts of New Spain, yet the Béxar women accumulated, largely through inheritance, religious paintings, statues, and crucifixes as well as clothing, jewelry and kitchen wares. Some women had luxuries and furniture from other parts of New Spain or the world. Through their wills, women catalogued their most prized possessions. Not all women left behind wills, but those who did catalogued their …

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes for a speech about Memorial Day program . Undated.

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes for a speech regarding the creation of a Colored Citizens Protective League . Undated.

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes for a speech mentioning religion. Undated.

Speech Notes And National Council Of Knights Of Toussaint Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes about women and society written on a National Council Knights of Toussaint Program. from February 21-22, 1927.

We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Welcome to the fourth exhibit in the series of “We Exist”. In this section we have selected quotes that represent and explain how Maine’s Black residents’ create the processes behind their engagement in particular leisure activities. The quotes also highlight the particular types of leisure activities that Maine’s Black residents suggest that they are involved in. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project "'Home Is Where I Make It': African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine”. The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of …

Miss Lloyd Appointed Canning Manager

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping regarding Pauline Lloyd being appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to run the canning operations of the City Federation of Colored Women’s Club of Jacksonville. Eartha White mentioned as President of City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Undated.

Note To Eartha White From Mrs. R. A. Wells

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note to Eartha M.M. White, President of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs asking her to inform the ladies of the Federation to go to the parsonage.

Transcript: “To the Pres. Of the Federation - You will please inform the ladies of the Federation to come over to the parsonage for labatory purposes. Yours truly Mrs. R.A. Wells”

Petition To The Board Of County Commissioners By City Federation Of Women Clubs

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping about Eartha M.M. White, president of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs petitioning the Board of County Commissioners regarding lack ventilation for the prisoners at the county prison farm and for a chapel for religious services for the prisoners. Metropolis. Undated.

Florida Federation Ledger, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Eartha White's ledger from work with the Florida Federation of Colored Women's Club, blank pages not scanned. Includes separate receipts. Undated.

Award For Meritorious Service Presented To Eartha White, Bethune Cookman College

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Award for meritorious service presented by Bethune Cookman College to Eartha White. Undated.

Health Department, N.A.C.W.

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Health Information Leaflet prepared for clubs of The National Association of Colored Women, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, M.D. - National Chairman.

National Association Of Colored Women Report Blank

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Blank form. Handwriting on back: "James Jones, Amous Jackson, Earnest Baley, Edward [illegible], Elis Handcock, H. Green"

Stationery Letterhead: National Association Of Colored Women

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Unused National Association of Colored Women, Inc. stationary. Officers, Honorary Presidents, Department Chairmen, and Standing Committee Chairmen printed on the back.

Florida Women Honored At Forest Hills

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

New clipping regarding the cottage at Forest Hills School for Girls, Forest Hills, Florida, named for Eartha M. M. White & six other distinguished women leaders. People left to right: Eartha M.M. White, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannye Ayer Ponder, Minnie L. Rogers, Alice G. Mickens, Dr. E.C. Hampton. Undated.