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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies"”.
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Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students
… what are the best practices to engage and empower transgender students within student involvement and leadership on college campuses, specifically through engagement within the Office of Student Life? This thesis theorizes that practices that are inclusive and respectful to transgender …
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XINGHUN: A "COOPERATIVE MARRIAGE" TIES CHINESE LESBIANS AND GAYS
… has been officially admitted, misconception and discrimination against homosexuals are still prevalent in the mainstream of Chinese society. Chinese LGBT people endure two main sources of pressure: one is from the external and another is from the internal. From the outside, Chinese LGBT …
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The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina
… the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010 and following up with the passage of the gender identity law of 2012, Argentina has quickly catapulted itself to the forefront of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer) rights in the world. This study sets out to answer a simple question: how …
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Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021
<p>This dissertation uses auto- and digital-ethnographic methods to analyze the literacy practices of bisexual TikTok users primarily during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, during which time TikTok exploded in popularity among U.S. social media users, especially among …
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Recognition of the transgender self: an examination of the apologia of the 'pregnant man'
… 2008, Thomas Beatie, a legally recognized male, transgender man, became pregnant with his first child and approached the American mass media to tell his story and defend his decisions. Shortly thereafter, the public fought against his image, attempting to normalize his body and gender. Beatie's …
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
<p>Lee Edelman’s <em>No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive</em> (2004) offers a model for reading queer sexuality and societal place very much in line with that which begins to emerge in early Gothic literature, including Matthew Lewis’s <em>The Monk: A Romance</em> (1796). The Gothic villain …
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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany
… focuses on those with politicized, romanticized, and stigmatized identifications which are assumed to be in conflict with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent in Germany with Berlin as my main study site.</p> <p>These people embody what is considered to be an …
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The Materialism Of The Encounter: Queer Sociality And Capital In Modern Literature
… Djuna Barnes's canonical <i>Nightwood</i>, and two neglected novels, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler's <i>The Young and Evil</i> and Claude McKay's unpublished <i>Romance in Marseilles</i>--that exhibit a mode of sociality and literary practice I am calling the "encounter." While the …
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Bisexuality and Motherhood: An Investigation of Psychological Distress, Parenting Efficacy, and Self Esteem Through Identity Theory
<p>Bisexual individuals are more likely to be parenting as compared to other sexual minority individuals, however a review of the current research on sexual minority parenting and families demonstrates a limited understanding of the experiences unique to this population. Furthermore, the …
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A Daily Diary Investigation of Discrimination and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women
<p>Lesbian women may experience discrimination because of their gender and their sexual orientation termed sexism and heterosexism, respectively. Both sexism and heterosexism are associated with increased psychological distress and negative affect among lesbian women. Furthermore, preliminary …
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Catastrophic Progress: A Queer Materialist Analysis of the 2023 Trans/Bud Light Controversy
<p>On April 1, 2023, Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman and social media influencer, made a March Madness post on Instagram sponsored by Bud Light. The response from the conservative right was swift and extreme, galvanizing protests against Anheuser-Busch InBev and resulting in a massive loss in …
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