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I am not where I was 15 weeks ago where the definition of methods was that little fuzzy thing you kind of see in your eye that you can’t even quite catch.

BUT I am still working through my own definition. […]

My key texts and my theoretical framework(s) are: decolonial feminism as defined by Maria Lugones, and Black feminist epistemology as discussed by Patricia Hill Collins.  

Lugones presents decolonial f […]

Key texts and my theoretical framework:

This research paper will incorporate legal journals and quantitative research to ground qualitative research, stories, and reports of domestic violence and reproductive […]

My key texts and my theoretical framework(s):

I initially grounded my work in Feminist scholarship, with a paticular focus in work concerning Bodies & Materiality, as well as perspectives which understand […]

Decolonial Feminisms & Cinema as Ritual: An Open Syllabus

My long project is an open syllabus bringing together texts and films that theorize and/or demonstrate decolonial feminist praxis within a primarily […]

Framework & Key Texts:

            For my framework, I will be writing an autoethnography of my own experiences with biphobia and the impact it has had on the journey of my queerness while also using two […]

METHOD

a paper, incorporating autobiography and research

MY RESEARCH QUESTION/S

How do our expectations or needs of texts affect our perceptions of them? What can this tell us about our understandings of […]

1. My key texts and my theoretical framework(s) are: I take influence from Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies, in which the College of Staten Island is used as a case study for his analysis of the ways queer s […]

My project (work in progress) is three Equality Archive posts centered around Abolitionist Feminist. 

1. My theoretical concerns rest within a few intersecting frameworks, including but not limited to: […]

Hi! My long project will be a work-in-progress website, hosted at the gc commons. I want to use this an auto/duo/multi-ethnographic exercise for myself and others to tell and collect stories. This will be a […]

I’m prefacing this with my flexibility as I want to know what you think. For my final project, I’m going to be working on a book proposal, that will be the format of this paper, about Queering Stand-Up Comedy: […]

It’s almost a mirage, that it’s happening. Happened. Today.

And as I write this post, the paper looming over my head, a writing I will be doing that will be so different to the writing I have done for this […]

My key texts and my theoretical framework(s): Broadly, my theoretical commitments are situated in cultural studies, with specific investments in Black and women of color feminisms and queer of color critique. In […]

Objectives: to identify common strengths and weaknesses across projects, with an eye toward replicating our successes and addressing our weaknesses and missed opportunities

What went well?

What I heard: […]

This isn’t a super polished post…

It’s Thursday. I’m doing homework and making my way through the readings for this week in Methods. I explored Angela LaScala-Gruenwald and Brian Mercado’s work with ease and […]

Yesterday, in class, Sam whisper-said to me, and I’m paraphrasing, “post about your book!”

I wrote a YA novel called Getting Over Max Cooper.

What is it to write a work of fiction? Create a world that is […]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022 AT 8 PM EDT

Online

In this presentation, trans studies scholar Susan Stryker speaks in a personal as well as analytical manner, in this historical moment of crisis, about the […]

Mon, Mar 7, 2022—Celebrating Rigoberto González and his Friends (7 pm)

Performance Space New York, 150 First Ave, 4th Floor 

Free tix (req […]

I have been thinking alot about our auto-ethnography posts on padlet. Writing mine was cathartic. While the amount of selfies on my camera roll might expose my narcissistic tendencies (although I like to think of […]

One of my favorite books is Normal People by a writer called Sally Rooney. I always feel the need to preface my recommendation with the fact that it does lack queer representation and the primary abusive […]