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Hello world! My name is Kaitlyn O'Hagan. This blog was for a Fall 2012 Thomas Hunter Honors course I took called "Feminism, New Media and Health" at CUNY Hunter College.
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![You are a UN Humanitarian Aid worker who has recently been sent to Liberia to provide aid to women, men and children in surrounding IDP camps. Using the readings, notes from the guest lecture, and film, state what steps you think the UN must take to ensure the safety, health […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/12/15225831/liberia-115x115.jpg "Cultural consciousness: the Key to Good Humanitarian Aid")
Cultural consciousness: the Key to Good Humanitarian Aid
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No CommentsYou are a UN Humanitarian Aid worker who has recently been sent to Liberia to provide aid to women, men and children in surrounding IDP camps. Using the readings, notes from the guest lecture, and film, state what steps you think the UN must take to ensure the safety, health […] -
![In their article Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas, authors Rahul Mitra and Radhika Gajjala carefully avoid falling into the trap of digital dualism, explicitly stating that “by blogging, [members of the Indian Queer community] have not somehow transported into a “virtual reality” that releases them from social, economic, political, material and discursive hierarchies.” However, what […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/11/15225851/Female-Masculinity-115x115.jpg "Gendered Spaces: Online and Off")
Gendered Spaces: Online and Off
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsIn their article Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas, authors Rahul Mitra and Radhika Gajjala carefully avoid falling into the trap of digital dualism, explicitly stating that “by blogging, [members of the Indian Queer community] have not somehow transported into a “virtual reality” that releases them from social, economic, political, material and discursive hierarchies.” However, what […] -
![“The long-term ineffectiveness of diets, particularly among those experiencing significant levels of obesity, is widely recognized, and many have argued that unsuccessful and repeated dieting is a source of psychological and physical harm.” (Throsby, see below for link). Yet Americans, especially women, are spending $30 billion annually on weight loss, and […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/10/15225854/fat-115x115.jpeg "Fat Monster")
Fat Monster
Posted on October 29, 2012 | 4 Comments“The long-term ineffectiveness of diets, particularly among those experiencing significant levels of obesity, is widely recognized, and many have argued that unsuccessful and repeated dieting is a source of psychological and physical harm.” (Throsby, see below for link). Yet Americans, especially women, are spending $30 billion annually on weight loss, and […] -
![How has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/10/15225859/TFINYR_poster-2-115x115.jpeg "Entertainment and Identity Regulation")
Entertainment and Identity Regulation
Posted on October 21, 2012 | No CommentsHow has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […] -
![I was in agreement with Nathan Jurgenson’s review of the film We Live in Public, which documents the “part art and part social experiments” created by Josh Harris: it “paints a far-too grim picture of living in public.” While Harris brilliantly sought to anticipate “what the world might be like when the Internet ‘took […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/09/15225911/ready-change-facebook-relationship-valentines-day-ecard-someecards-115x115.jpeg "Living Legitimately: The Dangers of Embodiment on Facebook")
Living Legitimately: The Dangers of Embodiment on Facebook
Posted on September 29, 2012 | No CommentsI was in agreement with Nathan Jurgenson’s review of the film We Live in Public, which documents the “part art and part social experiments” created by Josh Harris: it “paints a far-too grim picture of living in public.” While Harris brilliantly sought to anticipate “what the world might be like when the Internet ‘took […] -
![Though Adrienne Rick wrote “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” over 30 years ago, “compulsory heterosexuality” is alive and well. Despite the contemporary more popular theoretical view that sexuality is fluid and does not fit cleanly into labels of “heterosexual” and “homosexual” there is still an overwhelming expectation in American society that heterosexuality is the “default” […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/09/15225915/Coming-Out-Day-115x115.png "Compulsory Heterosexuality: Coming out & avoiding rape")
Compulsory Heterosexuality: Coming out & avoiding rape
Posted on September 24, 2012 | No CommentsThough Adrienne Rick wrote “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” over 30 years ago, “compulsory heterosexuality” is alive and well. Despite the contemporary more popular theoretical view that sexuality is fluid and does not fit cleanly into labels of “heterosexual” and “homosexual” there is still an overwhelming expectation in American society that heterosexuality is the “default” […] -
![Click here to see a lovely diagram, entitled “Republican Guide to the Female Body,” posted by Nerve (an online magazine). This is, in visual form, the exact opposite of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” It’s a guide written by men for women, with misinformation and lies, designed to make women feel anxious, […]](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3606/2012/09/15225917/five-men-115x115.jpeg "42 Years, No Change?")
42 Years, No Change?
Posted on September 4, 2012 | No CommentsClick here to see a lovely diagram, entitled “Republican Guide to the Female Body,” posted by Nerve (an online magazine). This is, in visual form, the exact opposite of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” It’s a guide written by men for women, with misinformation and lies, designed to make women feel anxious, […]
