Amore, More, Ore, Re is a collection of five short stories that focuses on a study of homosexual characters. "The Marvelous Life of a Rice Hut Showgirl" Follow an elderly drag queen in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as she puts on her make-up for a performance and recounts her life, inc…
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This dissertation explores the growing legal recognition of what has become known as ‘gender self-determination.’ Examining sex reclassification policies on a global scale, I show a shift within sex reclassification policies from the body to the self, from external to internal t…
This dissertation argues that social media constitutes a space for innovation on pre-existing forms of narrative resistance dating back to Chile’s military dictatorship (1973-1990), in which individual and group memory-work became a salient form of resistance. I argue that onlin…
For decades, feminist geographers have emphasized care’s role as a basic necessity for the continuation of humankind. This work has largely been shouldered by those who are most marginalized, especially women, people of color, and immigrants, and has, as such, been devalued as a…
The Triple Consciousness Theory (TCT), inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois' Double Consciousness, argues that Black women view themselves through multiple lenses and not solely two (gender and race). Although it is unclear who first coined the term, Sara Lomax-Reese and Nahum Welang, ins…
A robust and specific immune response is critical for the maintenance of organismal health. The immune response’s primary function is infection clearance; however, the outcome of an infection can vary greatly between individuals. This variation can be traced back to the combined…