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  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  realistic representations

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  Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 9:30 pm

  "Realism" can be a political necessity- when we mean that we want a broader depiction of life possibilities ... lives and queer possibilities rarely fall into what many would recognize as "real" identities, ...
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  Re: JOLT! And The Glitch Aesthetic

  Beyond Nostalgia

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  Shane Denson Stanford University

  Friday, August 21, 2015 — 2:12 am

  creating a feeling of urgency, that I wanted to get back in as soon as possible! This, I think, is a mode ... unfortunately). Still, though, to return to my point above: I think we should think through the possible ...
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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: The (Social) Mediated Myth of Childbirth

  A couple of resources

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  University of Canterbury

  Tuesday, May 7, 2019 — 11:44 pm

  to argue for a specificially maternal performativity, that offers with it the radical possibility ... through their performance and potentially subversive rearticulation of norms, offer the possibility for ...
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  “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement

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  Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin, Madison

  May 06, 2008

  11 comments

  “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement world building transmedia toys marketing Good Morning America gender Disney children Curator's Note When I caught this segment on Good Morning America last sp ...
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  "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  March 22, 2011

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  "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries the vampire diaries race and television media industries casting Curator's Note The video I am curating illustrates the drama two ...
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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 11, 2007

  5 comments

  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica miscegenation otherness diversity Curator's Note In this moment of crisis, the camera pans over the faces of many key characters revealing a crew that includes men and women of many ra ...
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  Earth in the Spin Cycle: The Myth of the Green Tech Industry

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  Jonathan Hielkema Independent Scholar

  February 08, 2016

  5 comments

  acceleration. It is in Apple’s basic interest to grow as quickly and as much as possible, meaning that its ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  Not knowing much about

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 5:47 pm

  change and the possibility – as you suggest at the end of your post – that politically-significant ...
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  Re: The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

  Here is an irony. While

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Friday, June 29, 2007 — 10:34 am

  onto these episodes as long as possible? ...

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