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  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  January 30, 2009

  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...
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  Re: Double Double Miley Trouble: Notes Toward a Queer Aesthet(h)ics of Duplicity

  A (Back) Door

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  Ryan Tracy Independent

  Friday, May 23, 2014 — 2:08 pm

  abstract, too anti-collective. I would read this along with Butler’s contention (as far as I’m reading it) ... tension between self-insisting and self-wrecking, a tension that quite possibly cannot be resolved. After ... world, in a world that attempts to deprive us of those resources that make survival possible, and if the ...
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  Indian Idol and Flash Fandom

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  Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

  November 21, 2007

  5 comments

  focused on how finalist Amit Paul managed to create a space for people in northeast India to cast aside ...
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  Perceptions of Barbie in Popular Culture

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  Jennifer L. Pena University of Miami

  January 29, 2024

  girls another option for play aside from baby dolls. However, “Barbie” has been a polarizing figure in ... meaning; she symbolizes possibility and impossibility alike. ...
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  Uncertainty is the Point

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  Anna Winter MFA

  March 26, 2026

  play and experimentation. It occurs through failure, not in spite of it—especially when we set aside ... opens up the possibility of making something that feels alive, something that couldn’t have been ...
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  Facing Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Punch in the Heart”

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  Virginia Bonner Clayton State University

  March 13, 2020

  1 comment

  Season One uses direct address frequently and familiarly. Fleabag’s visual check-ins and asides share her ...
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  "I'm Not a Racist, I'm Just Really Invested in Continuity": Casting Aside Donald Glover as Spider-Man

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  August 03, 2011

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  "I'm Not a Racist, I'm Just Really Invested in Continuity": Casting Aside ...
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  Previously on Buffy

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  Alan McKee Queensland University of Technology

  February 23, 2007

  4 comments

  a solipsistic ‘anything goes’ attitude. I’m not telling people that this is the correct interpretation of this ... text; I’m asking if anybody thinks the same way, or finds this a useful approach. ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  thoughts. I’m interested in irony as it's used as a rhetorical strategy: how ironists flatter and court ... him). Later this week I’m going to address a political campaign ad that arguably attempts something ...
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  Re: Falling Man and Mad Men (1:54)

  Diminutive Mad Man

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  Gary Edgerton Old Dominion University

  Friday, April 24, 2009 — 2:06 am

  change. As far as Matt Soar’s post, I’m glad he identified Henry Singer's 9/11: The Falling Man. I guess ... and Mad Men —are clearly part of the segment. Be that as it may, I’m happy extra attention is also ...

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