Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to Get to Sexame Street: Final Project
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to Get to Sexame Street: Final Project What’s love got to do with it? That was the question posed on the syllabus of our class. I explore what love has to do with it all in my play, “Sexame Street.” “Sexame Street” looks at how love is often […]
Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to Get to Sexame Street: Final Project
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Fixing the Unfixable
Monday, May 10th, 2010
The Peiss piece “Transformation of Transsexual Jorgensen” poses a question that Cal in Middlesex must answer for himself. How xan people who are different be “cured”? And of course, we must ask ourselves not how they can be “cured,” but rather if they should be — and if the word “cure” should be used in […]
Fixing the Unfixable
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…it’s…it’s an it!
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Middlesex has got to be the best book to end our semester. Not only was it actually written fairly recently (to my great surprise; the author’s style made me think the book was written in the ’80s), but the book touches on so many topics we discussed: The pros and cons of scientia sexualis; constructs […]
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…it’s…it’s an it!
Tags: femininity, gender roles, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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The Beauty Remains
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
The Beauty Remains “God has left the building.” That seems to be one of the underlying themes of Angels in America. The Angels are in uproar, their prophet – much like the biblical Moses standing before that little burning bush, like Jonah at the port city, convinced he can outrun infinity – spurns them, the […]
The Beauty Remains
Tags: angel, god, human nature
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Sula (No Other Title Necessary)
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Sula (No Other Title Necessary) Last year one of my political science professors was talking about the 2004 presidential election. He mentioned that in a debate between the two VPs (Cheney and Edwards), the two were asked a question about the number of black women in America getting infected with AIDS every year. As my […]
Sula (No Other Title Necessary)
Tags: gender roles, HIV/AIDS, politics, race
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Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother…
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother… The Alfred Kinsey and US Senate reading this week seem the paramount example of scientia sexualis; numbers, facts, and (false) theories predominate in both pieces. But what interested me the most was the “blame game.” According to Kinsey, “disapproval of heterosexual coitus…before marriage is often an important factor […]
Or You Can Just Blame Your Mother…
Tags: essentialism, free choice, homosexuality, Jeffrey Weeks, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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The Magic in the Forest (or in the Trees)
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
The Magic in the Forest (or in the Trees) Lolita is disturbing – when I actually step back and think about it: A man who falls deeply, madly in love with a young girl, never really notices that at times she is unwilling to stay with him, and objectifies her, never troubling to learn about […]
The Magic in the Forest (or in the Trees)
Tags: language, promiscuity, psychiatry, psychology
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Liminal Labels
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
I had a professor in my freshman year who loved the idea of “liminal spaces” – spots that are on both sides of something; they are neither here nor there. She loved to tell us, “It’s OK not knowing.” She loved the parts of life that were not black, that were not white, that were […]
Liminal Labels
Tags: liminal, scientia sexualis
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Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
The speech was fun, informative — entertaining, too, because of all those film clips. It’s about time I become properly addicted to a TV show, and I think that show will be True Blood. I’m off to get a Netflix account. But before I lose myself in the joys of out-of-the-coffin vampires, a few of […]
Blood+Race=Vampire Fun!
Tags: race, social constructivism, vampires
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THE ANTI-HARLEQUIN CLUB
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
THE ANTI-HARLEQUIN CLUB Harlequin is a Canadian publishing company know best for its romance novels and “women’s fiction.” The books have a reputation for being almost anti-feminist, since the plots generally revolve around a (straight) woman who becomes fulfilled when she finally has “her man” at her side, often for good (i.e., through marriage). However, […]
THE ANTI-HARLEQUIN CLUB
Tags: harlequin, romance novels
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