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Lesbian couple saved 40 teenagers in Norway... →
July 2011
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“[This new technology] threatened a delicately balanced order of private secrets...”
– Carolyn Marvin, (1988). When Old Media Were New. Writing about the spread of the *telephone* in 1899, but sounding suspiciously like G+/Facebook.
Procedure for Establishing Preferred First Name Usage
by Transgender-Identified Students
The word transgender is an umbrella term often used by people who transgress gender norms. At the University of Texas at Austin there is a population of students who identify as transgender. In order to facilitate their success at the university, transgender identified students can establish,...
June 2011
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Watchqcsms:
Alex pink-army.tumblr.com/ “I think that’s telling less about the medium, but more about this need to imagine community that is outside of these straight linear fictions.” Alex is a PhD student studying issues of gender, sexuality, race and social media. In this video he discusses a queer sensibility and what role social media plays in disassembling a linear concept of identity.
“If a lot of queer energy, say around adolescence, goes into what Barthes calls...”
– Joseph Litvak, quoted in Eve Sedgwick’s “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” intro to Novel Gazing. (Duke UP: 1997)
May 2011
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