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  Sisters are doing it for themselves

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  Robert Alan Brookey Northern Illinois University

  January 10, 2011

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  possibility of a GWBG sequel, and that I could help make the sequel happen. The project was listed on ... Neutrality, and the possibility of a two-tiered Internet, DIY and fan participation may have a bleak future. ... But before the conglomerates have a chance to spoil everything, I’m going to play. In an update on ...
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  Queer Comrades

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  Ragan Rhyne Independent Scholar

  January 26, 2011

  1 comment

    Almost a decade later, the festival finally proceeded – in its entirety – without incident. The clip I’m ... civil liberties in contemporary China. Indeed, ‘Comrades’ seems to have gotten far more coverage outside ...
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  Reproductive Racism?

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  Amber Johnson Prairie View A&M University

  August 22, 2011

  I’m not convinced. Life is impossible without reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is impossible ... welfare policies, abortion restrictions, and criminal prosecution, outsiders continue to control the ...
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  erotics and repression in stranger chat sites

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  David J. Phillips U. Toronto, Faculty of Information

  February 18, 2011

  erotics chatroulette Curator's Note I’m taken with the erotics of “random stranger” websites – omegle ... McGrath, in “Loving Big Brother,” writes about the erotic possibilities of these new topographies, of the ...
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  'Technology is a Glittering Lure'- Audiences in the Convergence Era

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  Darcey West Morris Georgia State University

  October 17, 2011

  action against what they argue is a violation of consumer trust. And I’m sure Don Draper would not want ... activities as fast as new technologies are developed that alter the possibilities for them. Journalists’ role ...
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  Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  February 02, 2011

  7 comments

  repetition of Jamie’s catch phrase “I’m an albino!” feels more like comic relief than social commentary. ...
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  Too HAWT To Win

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  Christopher Bell University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  May 31, 2011

  5 comments

  Even those outside of the traditional Western conception of beauty- Mandisa Hunley, for example, or ... famously instructed S6's Haley Scarnato to "wear the least amount of clothes as possible ...
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  How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

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  David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

  January 14, 2011

  2 comments

  ourselves entertaining the possibility that Kaspar Hauser might be right.   What used to be described as ... orientations, we may begin to perceive other possibilities—possibilities that will undoubtedly have fundamental ...
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  Gay Main Street

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  Christina Hanhardt University of Maryland, College Park

  August 10, 2011

  3 comments

  celebrations across and outside the US, many of which adopted the same name. But at the time, there was no need ... clashed. Many white gay men argued that rising prices plus their status as outsiders from middle-class ...
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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

  1 comment

  swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...

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