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  1. 21. Frankenstein Unmasked : A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Nagham Kourie; [2023]
    Keywords : Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; Queer readings; Feminist reading; Disability studies; Otherness; Othering; Anti-Oppressive Education; Swedish Curriculum; Upper Secondary School; Oppression; Privilege.;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the theme of “Otherness” in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through three different lenses: queer readings, feminist readings, and disability studies, which will offer multiple perspectives of the “Otherness” present in the novel. The essay will engage with critics such as Benjamin Bagocius, Fuson Wang, and Colleen Hobbs. READ MORE

  3. 22. Negotiating Gender and Sexual Norms: Queer Women and Non-Binary Individuals' Experiences and Semiotic Interpretations on Heteronormative Dating Applications

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Eloise Rose Félicie Lanoir; [2023]
    Keywords : Dating Applications; Queerness; Heteronormativity; Gender Norms; Semiotic Interpretation.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how queer women and non-binary individuals navigate gender norms and heteronormativity on dating apps. It also gives insights about how queer women and gender non-conforming users semiotically perceive and interpret gender and sexuality through online profiles. READ MORE

  4. 23. ‘A Catalyst Into Queer Life’: Gender-Open Parenting as an Abolitionist Practice

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Pao Zuccotti; [2023]
    Keywords : Abolitionist Phenomenology; Gender Abolition; Gender-Open Parenting; Gender Creative Parenting; Gender Neutral Parenting; Transgender Studies;

    Abstract : As practitioners of gender-open parenting, the refusal to impose a gendersex identity on children, my interviewee/collaborator and I engage in a dialogic interview about our shared embodied, everyday, relational parenting practices. I ask: What do we do when we do gender-open parenting? What does gender-open parenting do? If Marquis Bey and their black trans feminist theory set the scene, Sara Ahmed provides me with the concepts to move the methodology toward an abolitionist phenomenology beyond resistance to cisgender ideology. READ MORE

  5. 24. Archives For Black Trans Living, A Practice For Possibilities.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Levi Appleton; [2023]
    Keywords : affect; archives; because; Black feminism; capacious; care; embodiment; non-binary; praxis; trans.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates possibilities for developing an archiving praxis to help Black trans people live. Inspired by recent Black trans thinking and creativity, the research here centres conversations with five Experts working in a range of academic, artistic, and activist archiving practices. READ MORE

  6. 25. Antigender in 280 characters

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Sofia Cognini; [2023]
    Keywords : Antigender; Nethnography; Twitter; Meloni; Salvini; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the past years, antigenderism has become a growing coalition that has moved from being a monopoly of the Vatican to being picked up by Catholic associations and politicians, quickly reaching the general public. The word “gender” has become an empty signifier to attack queer and feminist agendas, sexual and reproductive rights but also gender studies scholars and courses. READ MORE