O presente trabalho pretende ser uma leitura sobre a .rticipação feminina na vida económica, social e familiar das roças de S. Tomé e Príncipe, desde 1950 a 1999, um intervalo temporal que inclui dois importantes momentos da história do país. O primeiro, sob domínio colonial e o…
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The stories and experiences of those in the LGBTQ+ community have been lost to the history books overtime. Though heteronormative society has neglected much of this history, activists in the first gay rights movement ensured that these stories remained preserved. The first gay r…
This dissertation investigates the epistemological, familial and spiritual invisibility of spiritual Black lesbian and bisexual women in the Belgian LGBT rights framework. By studying the intersection of black female homosexuality and spirituality in the Belgian context, the dis…
What follows discusses how BBC’s Dracula uses character representations, scripted dialogue, and narrative to challenge and perpetuate the dominant ideologies of our society. Dracula exposes the tensions in the growing cultural acceptance of, but also increased resistance to, the…
In a global asylum system that is increasingly hostile to refugees, queer Middle Eastern refugee narratives undeniably do political work. In this thesis, I examine three overlapping discursive sites—testimony, popular news stories, and memoir—where queer Middle Eastern refugee n…
The transgender community is often targeted by hate crimes at greater levels than anyone else under the LGBTQAI+ umbrella but the true scope of the epidemic is far from understood due to dramatically low rates of reported hate crimes. The current study seeks to understand the re…
This dissertation offers a camp reading of five animated sitcoms from three sets of primary auteurs – Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad!), Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama), and Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park). Chapter 1 provides an overview of the study, in…
There are many instances in scholarly writing and pop culture in which transgender identity is invoked as a metaphor for the fragmenting, decentering, and virtualizing effects of digital media and technologies, contributing to cultural tropes that imagine transgender people as u…
In recent decades, attention to textile art has flourished. The growth of contemporary studies committed to revising fiber’s hierarchical categorization represents a discursive turn heavily weighted within feminist inquiry. The interrelation between textile techniques and constr…
Self-coherence as the hub of all needs is a novel proposition made by Carol Dweck (2017), and not yet further explored. While supporting self-coherence with a comprehensive review of its presence within behavioral sciences, Dweck does not dive deeper into it, and offers an invit…
Statement of Problem Transgender soldiers are currently trying to serve openly in the military without the fear of termination due to policy changes by presidential administrations or the military. The Biden Administration is reestablishing Obama Administration policies that sup…
This documentary short film is about a now 30-year-old transgender man telling his story of growing up queer in a small Arkansas town, from being outed as a lesbian in high school, to ultimately being accepted as a trans man by members of his military and biological families. Be…
Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of crip theory, stigma theory and intersectionality, I explore lesbian Deaf women’s experiences in the United States from 1945 to 2020. This is a span that includes several civil rights milestones affecting Deaf lesbians. Relevant events, …
This thesis analyzes submission-oriented Latina/o zines based in South Texas. Each publication circulates nationally and internationally, featuring artistic submissions from this network. Through three case studies, this thesis investigates zines’ roles in forming spaces, both d…
This project centers on the question: Given the everyday and structural dynamics of gender oppression, how should we treat others’ genders in our everyday interactions with them, particularly given that those everyday interactions are often subject to or structured by disputed m…
This thesis examines the role of shame, space and language in the formation of queer identity within two novels, Guapa by Saleem Haddad (New York: Other Press, 2016) and Fi Ghurfat al-'Ankabut [In the Spider's Room] by Muhammad 'Abdul Nabi (Alexandria: Dar al 'Ayn, 2016). I begi…
In recent years, research on the intersection of queer and religious identities has been growing rapidly. Nonetheless, queer Muslims remain a minority in much of this literature. Furthermore, studies that address matters pertaining to diasporic queer Muslims living in a Western …
Morocco, the West-most region of the Middle East, is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. The King of Morocco holds vast executive and legislative powers, especially over the military, foreign policy and religious affairs. (Khan, M. 2019.) The Arab Spring was a …
Significance: Substance use in Lebanon has been a generally understudied topic, especially among displaced populations, youth, populations outside of Beirut, LGBTQ, and prison populations. This study seeks to understand these populations’ specific substance use patterns to bette…