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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"queer community"”.
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Queer Community through Photographic Acts. Three Entrances to an Artistic Research Project Approaching LGBTQIA Russia
… and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographic acts. It consists of two artworks that have been presented in a series of exhibitions, published texts, workshops, and lectures. The artworks are the photography-, video-, and sound-based installation …
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Playing with stereotypes and building a queer community : race, sexuality and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho
… interrogates stand-up comedian Margaret Cho’s queer community-building and cross-identification with her queer fans through her performance of sexual and racial stereotypes, including the fag hag, the Asian American immigrant, and the black drag queen. A close look at Cho’s work in this respect …
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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
… media platform – Facebook Groups, for the LGBTQ community in India against the backdrop of the societal 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 …
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Remember Gay Victims: An Exploration into the History, Testimony, and Literature of the Persecution of Homosexuals by the Third Reich and Their Effect on a Queer Collective Consciousness
… ability to impact the continual creation of a queer collective memory and consciousness. Unfortunately, many queers do not know the historic connotations and denotation of the pink triangle—a symbol worn by homosexual males within the concentration camps—now so readily used by the queer …
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Remember Gay Victims: An Exploration into the History, Testimony, and Literature of the Persecution of Homosexuals by the Third Reich and Their Effect on a Queer Collective Consciousness
… ability to impact the continual creation of a queer collective memory and consciousness. Unfortunately, many queers do not know the historic connotations and denotation of the pink triangle—a symbol worn by homosexual males within the concentration camps—now so readily used by the queer …
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Waiting for Ignition
… with themes of desire, masculinity, family, community, and connection/disconnection. The speaker in these poems navigates the difficulties of identifying as a young gay man in rural Missouri, the loneliness that stems from his disconnect with the queer community, and his inability to find …
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Making the private public: (life) writing, shame and the abjection of homosexual sex in Wales
This literary analysis explores shame in Wales’s queer community through the literary works of John Sam Jones. By examining the intersections of homosexual shame, public sexual spaces and sexual trauma in contemporary Welsh literature, this study analyses queer narratives in Jones’s literary works …
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Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival
<p>Influenced by Black feminist and queer scholars, my dissertation focuses on how Black and queer people have made interventions through language and performance to survive larger racist and homophobic forces. Despite critical scholarship on the literacies of both Black and queer communities, …
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Forma: growing in attunement
… has created barriers for some, namely the gender queer community. This is not a critique of the research that has been done, but rather an expansion to include makers that do not fit into the gender binary since, without any additions, they are left with a new binary to understand and work with …
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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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Reporting for the general population : heteronormativity in HIV/AIDS coverage of two city newspapers, 1981-2023
… and health facilities which provided care for queer patients. The researcher analyzed the influence of the heteronormative framework on coverage of the disease, as well as the representation of queer sources and issues of queer health throughout the timeline. The researcher found that coverage …
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Queer and Poliical: Exploring Transgender Resistance
… and solidarity with others in the trans and queer community.
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Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
… limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. This limited "movement/countermovement" dynamic obscures and denies the complexities and different conversations taking place among supporters of Queer …
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The clinic: paradigm shifts in urban design and stigma free healthcare
… examines the link between architecture and queer spaces, exploring how standardized clinical facilities can be transgressed and queered to suit the needs of a comunity largely left out of normative healthcare. 2SLGTBQ co, mmunities2SLGBTQ people cannot be defined by their physical …
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Tero Buro: Feature film script
… consumption of creative work wherein African queerness is liberally expressed is rarely explored from the perspective of the African queer creative. This paper examines how South African queer creatives interpret and understand the often-tumultuous reception that exhibitions of queerness in …
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Do You Listen to Girl in Red? A Thematic Analysis of Queer Symbolism on TikTok
This thesis investigates how queer women on the social networking site (SNS) TikTok are expressing their cultural identity and building community. Previous research has shown that self-expression and self-presentation are important parts of defining one's identity and building community for queer …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
… craze, the visibility of “sexual inversion,” or “queer” performativity combined with the popularity of speakeasies, night clubs, cabarets, and dance halls during Prohibition and facilitated greater tolerance of queerness within broader urban society during much of the 1920s-1930s, despite a …
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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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Tiger's Eye & Twine, with Sails in Flame: A Triptych
This thesis is a triptych of poetic sequences on queer reckoning—queer as an identity, a community, and a strategy of engaging with the world. Progressing further into interiority as the triptych progresses, the poems first confront contemporary politics, utilizing news sources, hearing …
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… Movement (GLLM) in the 1970s and 1980s through queer cultural memory. This queer cultural memory is informed by photographs and articles of protest and violence in the gay liberation magazine, The Body Politic (1971-1987). The thesis first develops the theory of queer cultural memory as a type …
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