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  Amy Schumer's Mirrors

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  Lisa Glebatis Perks Merrimack College

  June 02, 2016

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  Amy Schumer's Mirrors Racial Stereotypes humor comedy as mirror comedy amy schumer Curator's Note Amy Schumer's rise in comedy coincided with allegations of racial and ethnic insensitivity. Stacey Patton and David J. Leonard wrote in The Wa ...
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  Re: Trump audiences: Fired up! Ready to rumble!

  Good post Robert. I’m

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, June 2, 2016 — 8:40 pm

  Good post Robert. I'm interested in this question of audience/voting base. On the one hand, it seems like you're saying the violent audiences of Trump's rallies are going to be a problem for the Republicans as their brand becomes identified ...
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  The Question Concerning Technological Humor

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 07, 2016

  creating an instrument to suit our vision of a humorous world.   I’m left wondering, if it were possible to ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

  4 comments

  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer queerness Magic the Gathering Magic LGBTQ fandom auto-ethnography Curator's Note My two common experiences walking into my local card shop for Friday Night Magic are the faint but ever-present smell of week-ol ...
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  Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

  Daren, I want to start with

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 10:37 pm

  abyssal-womb of sorts. I want to explore the possibility of Magic as an inherently queer game. The game ...
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  "One Turn of One Game": On Chance, Variance, and Misplays

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  June 10, 2016

  of the game’s most respected players, who is attempting to boost his resume for a possible induction ... certainty to a virtual possibility, turning victory into harrowing defeat. As the second clip reveals, ... virtual possibilities that contradict each other. ...
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  Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

  First, thank you for your

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  Friday, June 10, 2016 — 12:25 pm

  Magic's queer possibilities. And as context, that I think affirms some of my claims about queerness in the ... form of play. This points to the constructive and shifting possibilities of the game as when one ...
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  Re: Amy Schumer's Mirrors

  Ironic Racism and its Discontents

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  Benjamin Kole Aspray Northwestern University

  Thursday, June 16, 2016 — 12:09 pm

  Media" panel I saw at SCMS last year, it impoverishes our discourse to assume there's no possibility ...
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  Stop apologizing for book prices and start publishing open access

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  Eric Hoyt University of Wisconsin-Madison

  August 16, 2016

  1 comment

  have been possible without the support of our contributing authors, who were unanimously supportive of ...
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  The [Shameless] Self-Promotion of the Academic Book

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  Emily Carman Chapman University

  August 16, 2016

  2 comments

  promote our work and ensure that our books reach the widest audience possible? We can do so by asking ...

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