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Re: Miss Independent, or Between Women - Reconsidered

slashing the covers

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Saturday, March 14, 2009 — 1:05 am

I’m interested, as I said earlier, in the way this vid and the one Dana posted might talk to one ... repurposings like Rin on the Rox’s do to that genre? I’m thinking here also of Karen’s question, “We are so ... “acting out against extinction”? I’m intrigued but having a hard time filling in what you might have in ...

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Re: El Cazador de la Ciudadana

Good observation

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Dana Heller Old Dominion University

Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 4:23 pm

the same sentence, he looked at me like I had two heads--like I could not possibly be serious. I got ...

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Re: Miss Independent, or Between Women - Reconsidered

Productively irreconcilable

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Ronald Becker Miami University

Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 1:23 pm

"straight-forwardly" queer duet (or perhaps your persuasive framing of one possible reading?) also provides ...

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Miss Independent, or Between Women- Reconsidered

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Karen Tongson University of Southern California

March 12, 2009

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configurations of love—like friendship—that carry other affective promises. We forget the fun and joy possible in ...

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Re: Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

the void, the feeling of emptiness

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Dana Luciano Georgetown University

Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 2:08 am

the same side of the line as Suleman, in opposition to the “legitimately” fertility challenged, ...

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Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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Ronald Becker Miami University

March 11, 2009

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Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...

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El Cazador de la Ciudadana

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Dana Heller Old Dominion University

March 10, 2009

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El Cazador de la Ciudadana immigration slash fiction El Cazador de la Inmigrantes, anime queer citizenship Curator's Note El Cazador de la Ciudadana (The Hunter of the Citizen) I am using this week’s theme to call attention to the ways in which que ...

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Re: Online Holocaust Testimony: Questions of Ethics, Pathos, and Media Specificity