Screenplay for animated feature film. Story and characters are based on a short novel, The Adventures of Hank the Cowdog. first in a series. This adaptation aims to translate the humor and unique dog-centered perspective of the original source into the medium of film. Hank the Cowdog, head of security on an isolated ranch, works undercover inside a pack of coyotes to solve a series of chicken murders. To solve the case, Hank defends his ranch, sheep and chickens from a devious and powerful coyote leader, Scraunch. With help from a variety of friends and a change in attitude, Hank saves the ranch. Screenplay places detective film conventions in an action-adventure cartoon format. Thesis includes notes on adaptation process.

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.<div>—Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West"</div>

This is the first part of a multi-draft young adult novel.<br>

<p>My novel is a multigenerational queer narrative, one which seeks to illuminate erased and hidden queer history from the 1920s to the 1970s. Through Prohibition and war, through scientific advances and cultural setbacks, three generations of women strive tofind happiness while avoiding the encompassing grasp of America’s growing total institutions -the jail, the asylum, the military. Narrated by the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the novel focuses half-lifes, ghosts, trauma, and what lingers after the destruction of queer families in favor of nuclear ones.</p> <p>As a queer writer, I’m interested in history, archival silences, and erasure. I believe that a historical framing which insists on writing a narrative of linear social progression erases vital and vibrant queer and trans communities and struggles throughout history. Furthermore, this narrative is often used to justify abuses in our present time, under the guise even these abuses are better than the oppressive past. Research shows this is not true, thatmany places and times had bubbles of freedom, utopian spaces built in opposition to societal pressures.</p> <p>As many of these spaces were built outside the law, it is impossible to talk about queer and trans  history  without  talking  about  total  institutions.  Queer  historical  fiction  must  engage  with police and prison abolition, the abuses of the asylum, and government censorship such as the Hayes Code or the chilling effects of the loyalty oaths. In this context, there is much to learn about the strategies  queer  and  trans  people  used  to  fight,  evade,  and  survive  within  or  against  these institutions.</p> <p>As  a  writer  whose  background  rests  in  speculative  fiction,  I’m  interested  in  using speculative elements such as ghosts and nuclear waste to speak about the trauma that remains from the last 100 years of American oppression. I want to examine what and who is left behind as laws and  norms  change -in  an  age  of  scientific  advancement,  what  happens  to  the  prisoners,  the institutionalized,  the  queer  and  trans  people  whosevery  being  has  oscillated  between  legal  and illegal with each decade. </p> <p>I see my work in conversation with Malinda Lo’s<em> Last Night at the Telegraph Club</em>, a novel about  a  queer  Chinese-American  girl  who  discovers  a  lesbian  bar,  set  during  the  Red  Scare. Additionally, I’m in conversation with the work of Jordy Rosenberg, specifically <em>Confessions of the  Fox</em>, a speculative historical fiction novel about a trans folk hero in 1600s England. I’m interested  in  works  of  historical  fiction  which  challenge  popular  andretrogressive  views  of  the past with the hard, beautiful, subversive, and real lived experiences of queer and trans people</p>

Magister Scientiae (Medical Bioscience) - MSc(MBS) / Nanotechnology is a rapidly expanding field with a multitude of practical uses namely textiles, cosmetics, agriculture, and health sciences. The focus, for the purposes of this thesis, will be on carbon dots. The small size and low surface-to-volume ratio result in different physico-chemical behaviour of these particles in comparison to its significantly larger bulk-produced counterparts.

Lwethulwa ukufeza izidingo zeziqu ze Master of Arts emnyangweni wezilimi zomdabu namasiko kwangqondonkulu waKwaZulu, 2018 / Lolu cwaningo luhlelwe lwaba yizahluko eziyisikhombisa ezimayelana namagalelo kaWanda M.E. ekubhalweni kwenoveli ethi: Kunjalo-ke kugxilwe kwisakhiwo, abalingiswa nengqikithi. Isahluko sokuqala sethula ucwaningo jikelele ngokucwaningisisa izinjongo zocwaningo, intshisekelo noma inkuthazo yocwaningo. Lesi sahluko sethula nezindlela ezisetshenzisiwe ngesikhathi kuqhutshwa lolu cwaningo kanye nemidiyo yocwaningo jikelele, abazohlomula kulolu cwaningo kanye nemibono yongoti. Kube sekwethulwa uhlaka lwezahluko zocwaningo kanye nesiphetho sesahluko sokuqala. Isahluko sesibili sethula izinsizakuhlaziya ezahlukene ezisetshenziswa uma kuhlaziywa inoveli. Kugxilwe kulezi ezibonakala zihambisana nenoveli ecwaningwayo. Kugxilwe kulezi: Ukulandisa, injulasakhiwo kanye nenjulasimo. Kubuye kwabhekwa ngeso elibanzi injulalwazi yepostmodern nobudlelwane bayo ekuhlaziyweni inoveli. Lesi sahluko sibe sesiveza amanqampunqampu omlando kaMjajisi Wanda ongumbhali wenoveli ecwaningwayo kanye nesiphetho sesahluko. Isahluko sesithathu sethula indaba kaWanda ngamafuphi kanye nesakhiwo sayo. Kuqalwe ngendaba ngamafuphi, kwalandela isakhiwo sale noveli lapho kugxilwe kulezi zihloko ezilandelayo: isihloko senoveli, isingeniso senoveli, umzimba wenoveli kanye nesiphetho senoveli. Kubaluliwe ukuthi umlingiswa omkhulu enovelini kaWanda uDumazile ngoba nguye obhekene nenkinga yokungabi nasimilo. Indaba ingaye kusukela indaba iqala ize iyophela. Isahluko sesine sethula abalingiswa abatholakala emsebenzini kaWanda. Kudingidwa izinhlobo zabalingiswa, indlela abavezwe ngayo kanye neqhaza labo endabeni ekukhuliseni udweshu phakathi kwabalingiswa. Kubalulekile ukuba abalingiswa benoveli bakholeke ngoba inoveli kumele kube yindaba engenzeka ngempela hhayi inganekwane nje. Isizinda ikakhulukazi indawo, inkathi nesimo senhlalo yabo sibe nomthelela omkhulu ebunjalweni babo. Udweshu olukhona phakathi kwabalingiswa lukhuphula ilukuluku lokuyifunda le ndaba. v Isahluko sesihlanu sihlaziya indikimba nomlayezo odingidwa yinoveli ecwaningwayo. Kuvelile ukuthi ukungabi nomngani oyedwa oshiyelana naye ugwayi kubhebhethekisa igciwane lengculazi. Ukuthandana kwabantu besilisa abadala namantombazane amancane ngoba begabe ngemali kube yimbangela yokugula nokufa kwabalingiswa ababalulekile. Ukulimala kwemindeni ngenxa yokungaziphathi kwabashadikazi, ukusala kwezintandane, ukungasebenzisi amajazi omkhwenyana, ukubalekela ukuhlolela igciwane lengculazi kubhekiwe kulesi sahluko. Kube sekuphethwa lesi sahluko. Isahluko sesithupha sethula eminye imihlabahlose ekubhalweni kwenoveli kaWanda. Kulesi sahluko kubhekwa isizinda, udweshu, ulwazi lwangaphambili, isu lokubikezela, isu lokujeqeza kanye nobudlelwano phakathi komoya nephimbo elitholakala enovelini kaWanda. Le mihlabahlose esetshenzisiwe njengesizinda iveza ukuthi okaWanda uyihlabe esikhonkosini ngokudingida ngempilo ehlupha imiphakathi eminingi kulesi sikhathi. Ukubhidlika kwesimilo kubantu yikhona okubulele imiphakathi eminingi. Indlela abantu abangazicabangeli ngayo sebenza amahlazo asobala. Kube sekuphethwa lesi sahluko. Isahluko sesikhombisa simayelana nokuhlaziya, izincomo, izimfundiso eziqukethwe yinoveli kanye nokungenziwa ngokuzayo. Izimfundiso ezivela kule noveli zibaluliwe njengokukhuliswa komntwana ekhaya, ukuthandana kothisha nabafundi, ukuthandana kobaba abadala namantombazane amancane, ukuzalela ekhaya kwamantombazane, umkhuba wokuyobhula kanye nobusoka kumele kubhekwe ngeso elibanzi njengoba kuvela njengomthelela nokutheleleka nokufa kwabantu yisifo sengculazi. Kube isiphetho socwaningo jikelele.

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Novel excerpt, personal essays and short stories.

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SHIVA'S DANCE is a collection of connected stories.