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Resisting Gender Oppression throu...
Resisting Gender Oppression through Comedy The performativity of gender and gender stereotypes are enforced through society as a systematic device to classify and oppress all views that are not part of the dominant, masculine paradigm. ...
Progressive Female Representation...
Progressive Female Representation in Comedy By Lauren Kaplan In the past century, comedy has transitioned from being a tool for social control and repression, to a form of rhetoric used to direct attention to disparities between minority and nor...
Cultural Competence of the "Other"
This is a piece addressing the issues of abjection and otherness in mainstream society. The need to enhance cultural competence comes from being aware of the existing social construction of "norms." The essay assesses these aspects and reinforces the...
The Consequences of Queer Alliance
The Consequences of Queer Alliance In Leslie Feinberg’s book Stone Butch Blues the main character Jess Goldberg struggles through life seesawing between perceived transsexualism, transgenderism and homosexuality. In mainstream society these...
there is rebirth and then there i...
I am stagnant. I am unmoving, unfeeling. Which is a lie. Like telling yourself you’re broken, because you feel less whole. But it’s thought. That is how thought works, like unconnected spindles. Lik...
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Soul is the furniture in my waiting room: barbed wire argyle couch, end tables made of MG wire hubcaps, a 60 watt brown sugar lamp with chain mail pull cord—overheated into molasses puddle, drained into ears and nose, a terrible head col...
Modern fanaticism is a different...
First, there is the material she uses: all her two-dimensional work — posters, woodcuts, charcoal drawings — is in black and white. The unartistic world that our eye perceives is ‘black and white’ only metaphorically, bu...
This leaves us, in the void of ou...
This leaves us, in the void of our everyday lives, confined to the passive state of playing the role imposed by second nature, keeping our essential powers and the longing for a beautiful life hidden away under the required mask. The mask has grown f...
It means that the human essence...
The first is what this book discusses as rejection. It is a moment when the confidence in our essence gathers enough strength to burst into the open, in spite of the power of the given, which is inimical to it. The other response to our contrad...
the deceit, the fraud, and the na...
the rounding of the curve the angle of the cornering there was an imperfection in your stride, a certain swerve not the ambling of relaxed inhibition, but an intentional resetting of your course the belie-ing of the origin&n...
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Perfect relationships exists in heaven When I walk into the bizarre Avoiding conflict with a full time job The character becomes you We’re a revolving door trading in shadows for the ghost of Einstein but the glass is on the outsid...
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Make the light/break the hieroglyph falling instead an angel Boys through girls in secret codes in shape twisted Almost terror and hallway alone Party night/spring rite assassination submerged Tigers in afterthought or days of the week Killi...
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Things are swept to the side marginalized One could consider the alternative alive, instead of wandering too Seeing around suspects one a thousand daggers alike preparing upstart covers cloning networks along the road Practiced guilt&n...
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