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1221	Songwriting queer: responsabilidades éticas alrededor Caballero Romero, Alejandra Antonia 31 August 2023 (has links) Desde el siglo pasado el movimiento artístico queer ha dado lugar a diferentes manifestaciones artísticas, dentro de ellas la música queer ha ocupado un lugar importante y el songwriting ha sido una de las maneras en que lxs artistas se han acercado a esta. La escritura y composición de canciones entrega una forma de canalizar emociones, de vivir con las experiencias afrontadas día a día por las diversas identidades disidentes. Sin embargo, cuando la música cruza los límites de lo personal y adquiere un público, lx artista comienza a ser responsable de aquello que el contenido de sus canciones pueda generar y cómo esto afectará no sólo a su público, sino, en general, al movimiento al que pertenece. Con la creciente escena queer limeña en continuo desarrollo, resulta importante comenzar a trabajar las responsabilidades éticas de lxs artistas, para poder seguir generando y promoviendo espacios seguros donde las disidencias puedan compartir y crear. Por lo tanto, este trabajo busca determinar cómo lxs artistas queer, dentro del contexto artístico queer limeño, toman responsabilidad dentro de su proceso de songwriting, busca analizar y explicar cómo plasman las variables éticas respecto al cuestionamiento, la representación, el activismo y la conexión dentro de su proceso de composición y escritura de canciones. / Since the last century, the queer art movement has given rise to different artistic manifestations, within queer music has occupied an important place and songwriting has been one of the ways in which artists have approached it. The writing and composition of songs provides a way of channeling emotions, of living with the experiences faced day by day by the diverse dissident identities. However, when music crosses the limits of personal space and acquires an audience, the artist begins to be responsible for what the content of their songs can generate and how this will affect not only their audience, but, in general, the movement they belong to. With the growing Lima queer scene in continuous development, it is important to start working on the ethical responsibilities of artists, in order to continue generating and promoting safe spaces where dissidents can share and create. Therefore, this work seeks to determine how queer artists, within the queer artistic context of Lima, take responsibility within their songwriting process, it seeks to analyze and explain how they reflect the ethical variables regarding questioning, representation, activism and connection within their songwriting process. Composición musical Homosexualidad y arte Homosexualidad--Música Teoría queer
1222	Queer Student or Student Who is Also Queer? A Mixed Methods Study of Competing Master Statuses in Higher Education Densberger, Kayla 01 May 2024 (has links) (PDF) People pursuing LGBTQ+ rights in the United States have faced triumphs and setbacks over time but now face equality-restricting legislation in several regions. Previous researchers have studied LGBTQ+ college students and LGBTQ+ identity as a master status, but less on how queer identity competes for salience with other identities. This study uses qualitative and quantitative secondary data on student responses to a university-wide climate survey (n=1699) conducted in the Fall semester of 2022. I analyze LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ student experiences and satisfaction with their school. The quantitative results of this research find that LGBTQ+ students have a markedly different campus experience, while the qualitative results find that student identity takes precedence over gender and sexual identity when assessing East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Data analysis includes personal narratives from LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ students on their college experiences with belongingness, academics, and campus political landscape. LGBTQ+ queer identity master status college experiences mixed methodology Gender and Sexuality
1223	To Teach Our Daughters Their Importance in the World: An Analysis of Jacqueline Woodson’s Middle Grades and Young Adult Literature with Black Girl Protagonists Montgomery, Nicholl Denice January 2022 (has links) Thesis advisor: Patrick Proctor / Jacqueline Woodson has been writing for children, young adults, and adults for thirty-two years. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing for young people. Her books grapple with topics like teen pregnancy and incarceration with sensitivity and compassion. Her young adult literature deserves closer examination for their potential as instructional tools for English teachers. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the history of African American children’s literature, the nature of Woodson’s contribution to contemporary African American young adult literature, and to make direct links to teaching Woodson’s YA literature in contemporary high school English classrooms. To these ends, this dissertation has three analytic chapters. In Chapter One, I present a history of African American children’s literature to situate Jacqueline Woodson’s work in the tradition of African Americans writing culturally and racially affirming text for Black children. The chapter highlights Black women who were actively writing during the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Black Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement, and whose work undergirds much of Jacqueline Woodson’s success. Specifically, I highlight the works of Jessie Fauset, Effie Lee Newsome, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, and Virginia Hamilton. In Chapter Two, I analyze a set of young adult literature written by Jacqueline Woodson. Specifically, I analyzed 10 of Woodson’s YA texts with Black girl protagonists through the lenses of Black Feminist Thought, Black Queer Theory, and Black English. I identified three themes that ran through Woodson’s work and were related to the theoretical lenses: (1) claiming and naming oneself, (2) finding community and belonging, and (3) remembering. Finally, in Chapter Three I provide four sample unit plans derived from the analyses in Chapters 1 and 2. The first unit plan uses Woodson’s text as a mentor text for student self-reflection. The second unit pairs Woodson’s text with a text written by Virginia Hamilton to understand the impacts of coal mining. The third unit uses Black Feminist Thought to analyze and compare one of Woodson’s texts with an adult text written by a Black woman. In the final unit plan, students study Woodson’s memoir in verse to understand how authors use their own lived experiences to create stories. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction. African American Children's Literature Black Feminist Thought Black Queer Theory Curriculum
1224	Theatre as Resistance: Application of Queer and Feminist Theories to Theatrical Practice and Pedagogy Gomaa, Chanel H 01 January 2024 (has links) (PDF) Throughout my time at UCF, I have committed my studies to better understanding my positionality as someone who both benefits and suffers from systems of oppression. I have dedicated my pedagogy and artistry to questioning how I can apply theatre as a tool to resist these systems through my work, as well as wondering how I may communicate my thoughts and concerns to the colleagues I collaborate with as I am to hold myself accountable for my involvement in works that I recognize as being in need of revision in order to resist systems of oppression. I conceptualize that to resist means to intentionally take accountability for one's implicit biases, in order to actively identify how the work we create may resist those biases rather than uphold the oppressions that supports them. In my thesis, I will reflect on how I have applied feminist and queer theories to my work as a director, playwright, and dramaturg, in order to develop a methodology for fostering resistance in the kind of theatre that I partake in. I ask how applying these theories may help me to expand my understanding of what the shows I participate in can accomplish, and what advice theory has to offer about introducing the concept of resistance to rehearsal spaces. My background as an Egyptian American Muslim cisgendered queer woman influences much of the perspective I bring into rehearsal rooms, production meetings, and to my writing as a poet and a playwright. Therefore, this thesis also aims to examine how my lived experiences intersect with the queer and feminist theories I employ in my theatrical practices. I will do this by sharing details about my upbringing, and including poetry related to multiple themes related to the shows reflected on in the following chapters. theatre feminism queer theory pedagogy resistance Theatre and Performance Studies
1225	℅ Care of Brown, Rasmus January 2024 (has links) c/o is a space that carries and amplifies queer voices. It's a place for organising, discussing and creating collectively, where activities will be held that promotes publishing as activism. c/o explores how queer archives and personal printed matter can be used as means for care and resistance, with the purpose to build a framework and community for publishing and activism. This is achieved through resource sharing, DIY or DIT zine culture and protest typography. I aim to document queer resistance by translating our collective histories into contemporary communication with a queered expression. I believe this to be a way to imagine/enable alternative futures that challenge conventional ideals in favour of queer realities. queer care trans chronic illness community Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Visual Arts Bildkonst Design Design
1226	The Monster In My Closet Neves, Mariana January 2024 (has links) In waking life, in dreams. As Leonor attends the last year of catholic school in Leiria, Portugal, a new girl joins the class, and Rita is plagued by visions of a dragon following her relentlessly. The Monster in My Closet is a graphic novel about confronting one’s inner demons against the backdrop of a wider belief system. It depicts a journey of acceptance and realization of one’s queerness while living in a conservative, Catholic city; wrestling with lack of references, teenage insecurities, internalized homophobia, compulsive heterosexuality, and religious upbringing. The comics draw inspiration from medieval illuminations and marginalia, subverting Christian aesthetics by exploring the tension between the Word of God and the margins, insiders and outsiders, heteronormativity and queerness, and the process of othering. / <p>Mariana Neves</p><p>Artist Name: <strong>Mariana Sou</strong></p> queer queerness Catholic catholic catholicism Catholicism Religion religion mural risoprinting Queer Gay Lesbian Comics comics medieval art Medieval Art illuminations historiated initial marginalia medieval lettering bookbinding margins edge marginalized portugal Portugal dragons dragon monsters monster christianity graphic novel risograph RISO riso gilding queer comics queer graphic novel St. George St. Michael St. George and the Dragon Design Design Visual Arts Bildkonst Art History Konstvetenskap
1227	"That Boy Ain't Right": How Disruptive Male Characters in Sitcom Satires Can Reinforce Normative Gender and Sexuality for the Dominant Audience Nowak, Sarah M. 01 January 2010 (has links) Why do we laugh at eight-year-old Butters Stotch when he sings about sodomy in South Park? How does the dominant audience understand Michael Scott to be heterosexual following his announcement that he would have sex with a male employee in the American version of The Office? What are the implications of laughing at Bobby Hill when his father expresses embarrassment over Bobby’s plus size modeling career in King of the Hill? I argue that the above characters are versions of the disruptive male character type common in sitcom satires. The sitcom satire is a hybrid genre that follows the sitcom format and contains satirical content. Using tools from queer theory and cultural studies, this thesis examines how particular examples of disruptive characters function in sitcom satires to reinforce cultural codes regarding gender and sexuality. In the first chapter, I suggest that when the male character disrupts normative gender and sexuality the audience laughs at the surprise and incongruity. I argue that the key feature of this character type is that he consistently disrupts cultural codes in ways that would normally mark him as homosexual yet he is not read as a gay character in the shows examined. I suggest that he is queer insofar as he does not fit neatly into the heterosexual/homosexual binary. Following this, in the second chapter, I explain how techniques used in the narrative; such as other characters' reactions, awkward silences, music selection, and scene changes, provide commentary on the disruption. I argue that characters that disrupt expectations of nonnative gender presentation and heterosexuality create anxiety for a dominant audience; the narrative commentary acknowledges that anxiety. Recognizing a character's disruption of cultural codes allows the dominant audience to relieve the anxiety and to reconcile the character's disruption with his heteronormative identity. Finally, in the third chapter I argue that the disruptive character often displays shame or pride in unexpected circumstances and is represented as ignorant I argue that by comparing normative behavior with disruptive or ignorant behavior, the narratives create the preferred or dominant meaning of the desirability of normative behavior. I conclude that the process of disruption, recuperation, and reinforcement reveals two perspectives. First, if disruptions confirm the desirability of the codes they attempt to subvert, then resisting these codes is difficult. Second. disruptions can reveal the construction of these codes; if these cultural codes were as natural as we are to believe, then our culture would not need to work as diligently to uphold them. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1228	Leadership and charisma: A desire that cannot speak its name? Harding, Nancy H., Lee, Hugh, Ford, Jackie M., Learmonth, M. January 2011 (has links) No / Leadership has proved impossible to define, despite decades of research and a huge number of publications. This article explores managers’ accounts of leadership, and shows that they find it difficult to talk about the topic, offering brief definitions but very little narrative. That which was said/sayable provides insights into what was unsaid/ unsayable. Queer theory facilitates exploration of that which is difficult to talk about, and applying it to the managers’ talk allows articulation of their lay theory of leadership. This is that leaders evoke a homoerotic desire in followers such that followers are seduced into achieving organizational goals. The leader’s body, however, is absent from the scene of seduction, so organizational heteronormativity remains unchallenged. The article concludes by arguing that queer and critical leadership theorists together could turn leadership into a reverse discourse and towards a politics of pleasure at work. Charisma Critical leadership studies Followers Heterotopias Queer theory Sexualities REF 2014
1229	Review essay – New directions in queer theory: recent theorizing in the work of Lynne Huffer, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, and Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman Harding, Nancy H. 2015 August 1925 (has links) Yes Queer theory Lynne Huffer Leo Bersani Adam Phillips Lauren Berlant Lee Edelman
1230	Dear Dear Dear Koch, Devin Harold 21 May 2019 (has links) Dear Dear Dear is a collection of prose block poems that follow a queer speaker who is being confined by the world around him (the Midwest, the speaker's family/family values, gender norms, to one's own body, mortality, Monsanto, etc.) that tries to control and define him as a person. Dear Dear Dear examines the notion that humans are a product of one's own environment. It explores how one can be ones own product in response to being confined. Dear Dear Dear explores different themes such as 'Nightmares VS Reality', 'Confinement', 'Response to Being Confined', 'What is Home' seen in the collection. These themes intertwine with one another to create a loose narrative about a speaker actively trying to find a space where he can simply exist and call home without any fear of judgment from the world in which he inhabits. / Master of Fine Arts Poetry Queer Gay Midwest Religion Cancer Illness Nightmares Queerness Gender Sexuality Body

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