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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls HBO girls friendship #squadgoals Curator's Note When HBO’s Girls debuted, it depicted a privileged sisterhood. Not only were the stars elite white women, but they also sha ...
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  Re: One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

  Alyx, I’m so excited to see

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 8:21 pm

  Alyx, I'm so excited to see you writing about Lizzo here! You point out a lot of important tensions in Lizzo's performance of "Ain't I": how to create something that everyone can join (I almost wrote "buy into") in a way ...
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  One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

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  Alyxandra Vesey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  January 26, 2016

  3 comments

  electrifying in demonstrating what’s possible when women think beyond the squad and present themselves as ...
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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  January 25, 2016

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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly" race pop music Janelle Monaé Grimes gender drum machine #squadgoals Curator's Note There’s something going on with female friendship in the indie pop s ...
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  Re: Rudolphe Töpffer's Graphic Novels: A Rhetorical Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics of Physiognomy

  graphic novels

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  Bernd Herzogenrath Goethe Universität rankfurt, Germany

  Thursday, January 21, 2016 — 5:05 pm

  possibilities of the medium to reflect on time and memory, or nick sousanis' phd-thesis in graphic novel ...
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  Rudolphe Töpffer's Graphic Novels: A Rhetorical Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics of Physiognomy

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  Sergio Figueiredo Kennesaw State University

  January 21, 2016

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  Rudolphe Töpffer's Graphic Novels: A Rhetorical Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics of Physiognomy aesthetics graphic novels hegel media arts philosophy Philosophy in/as/of Media Curator's Note I recently completed a book-length translation of Rudolphe ...
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  The Sunset is a Lonesome Place: Budd Boetticher and the American Dream

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  January 13, 2016

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  Dream, as something that can be held collectively. The American Dream is seen as a universal possibility ...
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  Re: What Bear Grylls Can’t Do: Survivalist Mediascapes in Austerity Britain

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  Alexandra Kokoli Middlesex University

  Friday, December 11, 2015 — 11:09 am

  'white underclass'. Benefits Street is an exception to this. There are many possible reasons for ...
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  Producing and Consuming Survival: Naked and Afraid through The Right Reasons

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  December 07, 2015

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  Juliet Litman, the producers of the recently defunct (but possibly returning) The Right Reasons podcast ...
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  What Bear Grylls Can’t Do: Survivalist Mediascapes in Austerity Britain

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  Alexandra Kokoli Middlesex University

  November 22, 2015

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  What Bear Grylls Can’t Do: Survivalist Mediascapes in Austerity Britain The Scheme The Daily Mash survivalist media poverty porn London Britain's Hardest Grafter Benefits Street Bear Grylls austerity Curator's Note Co-authored with Aaron Winter ...

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