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  Re: Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

  Violence and Protection

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  Monday, March 11, 2013 — 6:21 pm

  demographic, as demonstrated here, that stretches well beyond unsympathetic males). Side-stepping: I think you ... raise a really fascinating point about the possible transition from "becoming" to ...
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  Re: Doubting Science Along Party Lines: The Polarization of Climate Change

  Polarization as an excuse to do nothing?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins and Zenia Kish The University of Tulsa

  Sunday, August 19, 2012 — 12:50 am

  still-business-first Dem side) of which this law is only a more naked extension. I think that the Republican/Democrat ... apparently). Submitting American interests to anyone else is not possible in this two-party, corporate-funded ... polarization-as-stumbling-block is actually embraced by both sides as an excuse to continue to do nothing. ...
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  Re: Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

  Some Initial Thoughts on Bayonetta 2

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 5:57 pm

  latter of which fights side-by-side with the game's heroine for two stages, a rare counter to the ... fantasies than queer politics. However, a more careful reading might yet reveal some queer possibilities ...
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  The Big Toe on the Obelisk; or, the problematic of the Perverse in public art

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  Anneka Herre Urban Video Project and Syracuse University

  March 29, 2011

  3 comments

  monolithic structures (50’) situated on either side of a black granite reflecting pool. Faces appear on LED ... as public art is an open question.  In some ways, I’m delighted by how effectively it sets up an ...
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  From Cold War Alcoholism to Post-9/11 Patriotism: The Repurposing of David Bowie's '"Heroes'"

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  Zack Stiegler Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  May 03, 2016

  8 comments

  preceded in the set by 1997’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” Bowie often prefaced ‘”Heroes’” by telling ... audiences on his 2003-2004 Reality tour that “This is the other side of that same story, this one’s for ...
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  Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

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  Philip Nel Kansas State University

  September 03, 2010

  6 comments

  a ham (green, with eggs on the side — also green).   Less obvious but more important, I wanted my ... from doing so. I’m not sure what hooked me on metafictions, but I expect it was something I saw or read ...
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  Why I Love the Lady-Lady, Mrs. J.B. Fletcher

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  Elizabeth Wuerffel Valparaiso University

  March 06, 2016

  5 comments

  Curator's Note I’ll admit. I’m biased. Our TV time was limited to one hour/day, and I spent my middle and ... more than a side note. Is it widowhood that allows Fletcher incredible freedom our female protagonists ...
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  Re: MC NORMCORE

  Echola-da-di-da-di

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  Ryan Tracy Independent

  Friday, May 23, 2014 — 12:57 pm

  one in both positions, self-and-other; center and margin. I guess what I’m wondering, then, is: Does ... always already an invitation, a skin-side-out (to crib from Sedgwick) performance of shame that effaces ...
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  They say class cuts, we say class war

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  Meredith Wallis Stanford

  May 04, 2010

    So when I’m talking to gays who have wanted more than anything in the world to get married, for whom ... (90s), now comically defiant: “I’m not the marrying kind”.   The disappointment is palpable.   It is ... go on as if there were both, in order to secure the possibility that there might be either.   And ...
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  Sisters are doing it for themselves

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  Robert Alan Brookey Northern Illinois University

  January 10, 2011

  4 comments

  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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