gender identity trans identity gender queer gemderfluid feminine masculine blah blah blah examples: mulan rupaul “butch” and “femme” barbie and ken the l word kinsey scale?? bars people go to Throughout the semester‚ I have decided to explore the idea of gender and gender identity. This means I will explore the different identities and how those identities have shaped the lives of the people who embody those identities. I will explore from the cis-gender identity all the way to
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In the early days‚ gay media representation was constantly tied to contracting the HIV virus‚ and the implications were always pessimistic. Cited in Dustin Goltz’s book on Queer Temporalities‚ Roman argues that “popular media constructions of HIV-negativity are depressing‚ providing limited discourses‚ and offer ‘little incentive to imagine a life worth living’” (qtd. in Goltz 9). Considering this‚ How to get away with murder
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the LBTQ community. I was ignorantly unaware that a concept such as pink washing existed. Dean Spade explained in the lecture that pink washing was‚ “when an oppressive harmful institution tries to use an emptied-out version of queer politics as a PR stunt for itself‚ but queer people don’t get anything out of it‚” (Spade‚ 2016). One example that Spade used were the Hate Crime Laws and Anti-Discrimination Measures that were created and enacted by the U.S. government to eradicate abuse towards minorities
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person is actually. Butler also talks about how these roles are recurring in society because of the performativity aspect of gender. These roles are what Butler wants to break away from and she goes as far as to connect her theory with the idea of Queer Theory that has also been spread throughout today’s society. For Judith Butler she believes that the role of gender has been defined by how we teach our children to act. This would go along with the idea of masculinity and femininity and the way that
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Ironically the movies that were critiqued fall under the horror‚ action‚ and fantasy genres however‚ the resulting criticism opposes their purpose in which they fall respectively under feminist‚ queer‚ and Marxist criticism. Halloween being nationally recognized as a spooky day was the perfect setting for a woman to establish her equality. Likewise‚ an action film was critiqued as being the perfect setting to establish an LGBT presence as opposed to the drama stereotype and fantasy was viewed to
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Griner and Gloria Johnson did not make the news like Ray Rice. Only because the LGBT community is envisioned as a disgrace to the mankind. But who made that Rule? During this semester I began investigating gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual‚ transgender‚ and queer representations of the sacred during my late adolescence‚ to open my beliefs towards the LGBT community. In college‚ my knowledge of same-sex desiring and gender-variant deities evolved into a study of the spiritual roles and legacies of LGBT
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Women in Halloween and Frozen are seen as strong individuals in times when they are expected to be weak. Let’s start with the movie 300‚ the best fit for this is a criticism of queer theory. When it comes to queer theory Kelly Mays “likes to discover resistance to heterosexuality in unexpected places” (2349). This is more queer theory in reason being that even on the battlefield when one of the man was dying his comrade held his hand to comfort him‚ but the narrator of screen junkies expressed it was
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to work simultaneously on all. Despite being extremely confusing for those who are not pre-exposed to the various terms and concepts‚ Eli Clare’s ‘Exile and Pride’ is an appropriate addition to queer literature. The purpose of this book however is up for debate. As it currently stands as an addition to queer literature it serves its purpose well. If the book was intended to educate readers on disability politics then it also serves its purpose but is hindered by its medium and the language utilized
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and contribute to it’s toll on the reader "morbid"‚ "depressed" ‚ " ghastly". . There’s off rhyme between "lamps" and "glanced" in the second stanza. There’s a simile (comparison using like or as) where Owen says the girls touch him like some queer disease. It’s ironic (another poetic device) that nonhuman things (sleep) take on human attributes (the personification of sleep mothering) while the human (the subject himself) becomes inhuman‚ turns into a disease. Meter: generally iambic pentameter
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Leaves the authors‚ Martin Espada and Sandra Beasley‚ write about the power that poetry ultimately has. Although poetry is beneficial to readers‚ it’s also valuable to writers. The power gives to a writer can be simply illustrated by the poem Severely Queer by Lucas Mathieu D. Poetry matters because it can both allow readers to find comfort in difficult situations‚ and allow writers to express
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