Families with Fluid Boundaries
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Families with Fluid Boundaries The way power was used in Ronald Bayer’s essay, AIDS and the Bathhouse Controversy was quite interesting. Essentially, the question was whether the San Francisco government could control the private lives of gay individuals in the name of public health. As stated in the essay, the criminalization of homosexuality by the […]
Families with Fluid Boundaries
Tags: civil liberties, discrimination, family, gay, homosexuality, power, privacy, race, stereotypes, strategy
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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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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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Museum of Sex, NYC
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
The museum managed to create a traceable history of our modern attitudes towards sex. I especially liked how all of the exhibits (and items in the gift shop) were presented in an open and informative manner.
Museum of Sex, NYC
Tags: art, condoms, education, gender, identity, museum, porn, race, scientia sexualis, syphilis, violence
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