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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

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  concern will be for Sly’s aging physique; the veins bulge so alarmingly in his shoulders and neck we begin ... to imagine eventual Cronenbergian implosions. At the very least, a loved one should tell him to ease ...
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  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  April 29, 2008

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  dance. We feel the primal rhythm of a beat and begin to bounce our head almost by instinct; the deep ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  Tagging Fans, Tweeting Beards: Major League Baseball, social media, and the body

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  Annie Dell'Aria The Graduate Center, CUNY

  October 26, 2011

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  Tagging Fans, Tweeting Beards: Major League Baseball, social media, and the body twitter the body tag MLB Mediating Baseball fan practices Baseball Curator's Note One way Major League Baseball promotes an avid fandom through social media is the MLB F ...
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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit appropriation performance race competition dance video games the body MMOG Curator's Note Bodiless bodies are stacked inside the rhythm and moves; fleshless dancers skim keys eliding their epidermal rea ...