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  Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

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  Philip Nel Kansas State University

  September 03, 2010

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  from doing so. I’m not sure what hooked me on metafictions, but I expect it was something I saw or read ... what they’re reading or watching, allowing them to step outside of some of the conceptual boxes that ...
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  "Four Days at Dragon*Con" excerpt

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  Jack Walsh Public Broadcasting Atlanta

  September 07, 2010

  5 comments

  or 15 or 20 years ago: back when Cons really were a gathering place for outside ... disagreed with me when I postulated it; working without narration, I’m at the mercy of what my interview ...
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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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  A "Huge" Cancellation and the ABC Family Brand

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  Phoebe Bronstein Georgia Tech

  November 12, 2012

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  “Everyone wants us to hate our bodies. Well I refuse to. I’m down with my fat.” By contrast, the girls of  ... Huge —outside consumerism, then what does a network sell its audience? ABC Family coupled Jamie ...
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  Is the "blogging teen girl" a new TV trope?

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  Amy Hasinoff McGill University

  November 29, 2012

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  a conventional female-centered teen comedy program. Jenna is an outsider(ish) teen girl at the centre of ... heartbreak: “I’ll look back and blog about this when I’m sixteen.” What does this mean for how we think about ...
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  Re: Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods

  Tiger's Quiet Meow

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  Kimberly Alecia Singletary Northwestern University

  Monday, May 31, 2010 — 11:09 pm

   I’m coming to this a little bit late, I know, so forgive me for being late to party. What I found ... he is able to control the proceedings, but outside, vulnerable to the elements, vulnerable to his ...
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  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  a stereotypical Black masculine façade, and instead explores the possibilities of the erotic as a way of knowing. ... becomes reassurance, and a touch becomes a caress. Temporarily outside the heteronormative patriarchal ... intervention in mainstream cinema.   Lorde, Audre. Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. Crossing Press, 2007. ...
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  Re: Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface

  Audiences and Their Motives

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  Karen Gonzalez Rice Connecticut College

  Friday, April 16, 2010 — 6:09 pm

  playing these games?   What are the target audiences for these types of games?   I’m wondering about the ... create new needs but actually tap into traditional practices.   I’m curious about whether you see these ...
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  Fantasizing our End through Film

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  March 25, 2013

  5 comments

  death drive, in experiencing temporality as a loophole, and it is this loophole that puts us outside of ... scientific discoveries from the rapidity of global warming, to the possibility of an asteroid striking earth, ...

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