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What Does The Popularity Of The Hunger Games Say About Our Society?, John R. Kilbourne
What Does The Popularity Of The Hunger Games Say About Our Society?, John R. Kilbourne
John R. Kilbourne
Have we become part of a group that as Katniss’ friend Gale Hawthorne says in “The Hunger Games,” and Senator Gracchus from ancient Rome puts forward, “We want a good show, that’s all we want.”
Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D.
Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D.
Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.
The authors detail an educational ethnography of a university queer cultural center’s role on campus and in the surrounding community. The data include participant observation, in-depth interviews, and artifacts. The authors review lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ally, and questioning (LGBTAQ) issues in higher education, heterosexual attitudes, and queer theory. The findings of barriers to the Center’s mission plus the suicide of a Center student prompted the authors to explore research poetry as a means to express the inexpressible. Furthermore, they illustrate tensions between contemporary queer and gay theories through the telling of a straight tale (traditional research report) and a …