In February of 1987, four heartbroken activists whose emotional, physical and conceptual labor had been stewing for over a year and a half had finally …
Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: A Constructed Autobiography of Identity
This written and visual thesis examines how feminist theories surrounding the construction of a gendered subject are related and situational to the narrative of a …
Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress
How do I see–what are the modes, constraints, and possibilities of my seeing, the terms of vision for me? How am I seen–what are the …
Multiple Monsters: The Minotaur in Borges
Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like …
A Fantastic Homecoming: An intertextual analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”1 In my paper, I will do a comparative analysis of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and …
3way: Texxtured thing-power, blank-eted, & how do I make sense of theory, how does theory make sense of me?
Texxtured Thing-power: How do I make sense of theory, how does theory make sense of me? “I am drawn to the ethnographic experience of the …
Muslim-American Subjectivity on Serial: Double-Lives on Both Sides of the Hyphen
Despite great scholarly attention paid to media representation of Arabs and Muslims in relation to terrorist tropes (Alsultany 2012; Shaheen 2015) and scant but important …
Mapping Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The loss of natural habitats is negatively impacting wildlife diversity (McKinney) and the increasing demands of a growing global population pose additional strains on the …
The Clearest Lens For Viewing The USA
The televised broadcast of the 2016 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade begins with a performance by the Muppets. They perform an original song about the excitement …
Who Speaks With The Dead / What Cannot Be Lost: Thinking in Ghost Time
Sitting on a bench at the Cloisters with my sister one fall afternoon years ago, I felt something grab the toe of my shoe, lift …