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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Queer Identity"”.
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Queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland
This thesis investigates queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland, focusing on its socioculturally disruptive agency. Queer theory provides a poststructuralist paradigm that unsettles any binary structures in the analysis of gender and sexuality in social, historical and cultural studies. …
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Silent Outsiders: Searching For Queer Identity In Composition Readers
… of contents for the degree of inclusivity of queer people and issues. Four means of erasure are labeled as possible erasing of queer identity: presuming heteronormativity, overt homophobia, perpetuating tokenism, and pathologizing queer identity. The presence of other differences are compared …
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Russian blue: The production of queer identity in 1990s Russia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Part of This World: A Personal Exploration of Media and Queer Identity
… impact of television, film, and online media on identity formation. I look specifically at my own identity as a queer person and how it has been shaped by what I have seen and experienced as a young queer and as an educator. Topics discussed include homophobia in the classroom and workplace, the …
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No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Making of a New Queer Identity
… of necessity, urgency, and sometimes choice, queer Africans cross borders and find their lives unfolding in diasporic spaces. Refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity persecution make up 12% of all refugee cases in Canada, with queer African refugees constituting the …
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Real to Reel: The "Third Gender" Narratives and Queer Identity in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali Films
… negotiated through the in-betweenness of gender identity, not solely lying within the binary of gender. Through this representation of the third gender space, the thesis also looks at how Ghosh used gender identity in association with the cultural and historical presence that the third gender has …
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"I'm gonna be free": listening to expressions of queer identity and cultural Catholicism in the music of contemporary Irish artists
… between Irish cultural Catholicism and queer Irish identity as revealed and complicated through music. For many, queer identity and Irish identity are polarised, situated at a point of tension as a result of the homophobic teachings of the Catholic church, an institution which has …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… how can we hypothesize—or critically fabulate—queer material legacies? The first—or earliest extant—American film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material culture, queer identity, film, the Internet and pornography, …
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Navigating the (Im)Perfect Performances of Queer Iranian-American Identity
… systems, creates an unfinished portrait of queer identity. For queer people of color, negotiating queer identity is always in relation to their nationality, race-ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and family. While many queer of color stories share similar obligatory cultural norms, the …
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Unstill Life: Poems
… town, Nunda. Many of the poems also comment on queer identity, specifically that of a gay male speaker coming of age in New York and then later looking for love and companionship. The poems are written in free verse, some pieces being written as American sonnets and prose poems.
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Her Body Breathes Into Mine
… Set primarily in the Midwest, these poems voice queer identity that asks us to consider what makes someone a person, as identity is much more than sexuality. Love, sex, loss, sexuality and gender expression are themes that bind these poems.</p>
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Faith's Late Procession: Poems
… ongoing struggle with faith; his father's gay identity; the difficulties of watching, as a child, his father worsen over time with advancing stages of schizophrenia, and the duality of growing up in urban St. Louis, while spending summers on his father's farm in upper east Tennessee. The poems …
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Becoming “Lesbian” in TV land: Television as an Interlocutor of Queer Consciousness & Community
This research interrogates questions of queer consciousness and queer community as influenced by television, or other visual media formats. Utilizing intersectional queer perspectives, I draw on José E. Muñoz’s queer longing and queer utopia as the basis of my theoretical framework. Extrapolating …
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Wearing Yourself or Dressing the Part: Navigating Workplace Dress Codes as Queer, Androgynous Women
… Niagara Region through the experiences of six queer, androgynous women. Through a theoretical perspective that is informed by both Erving Goffman and Judith Butler, I analyze the women’s decision-making around managing their appearance for work, and the relationship they perceive between their …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… critical history of forgotten or neglected queer American writers in the international expatriate community in France who used their time in the French mainland and colonies to construct early narratives of gay identity. This project argues that French literature and art, which had already …
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Queering Virtual Groups: Exploring Facebook Groups as a space for identity construction and social justice among the LGBTQ community in India
… taboos and lack of legal support for the queer community, coupled with the existing infrastructural loopholes like education and technology. Over the past couple of decades, India has been witnessing a wave of change as conversations surrounding non-normative gender and sexuality is on the …
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Keeping up with the Queers: White gay and bisexual men's experiences of relationship intimacy and conflict in Cape Town, 1966-2008
… of South Africa changed considerably for queer people living in Cape Town. This thesis intends to explore white gay and bisexual men's experiences of intimacies and conflict in their close relationships during the latter half of apartheid and early democratisation. Interviews and …
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Queering community : collective housing in Los Angeles
What is queer architecture? What are the spatial implications of this identity, community, and history? And how can queerness in architecture generate new modes of living? Queer spaces are often marginal spaces: overlooked, under lit, and co-opted spaces. However, they were also the political, …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… literature concerning non- heterosexual (or queer) representations of masculinities in the Arab world. Within such context, this dissertation addresses the emerging and shifting visual representations of ‘queer’ masculinities as they are artistically performed in the contemporary lens-based …
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Object Of Your Rejection: The Symbolic Annihilation And Recuperation Of Queer Identities In Country Music
… addresses the double-marginalization of white queers living in Bible Belt communities by examining the symbolic annihilation of queer identities in country music. Bible Belt queers face unique obstacles and have different needs than queer communities elsewhere due to the cultural context of …
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