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  Rose's St. Olaf: The Midwest Exotic

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  Emily Kofoed Georgia State University

  June 13, 2014

  2 comments

  almost every episode of the Golden Girls ' seven-year run. This character was not a person; it was ... inhabitants, its absurd customs, and its unique sayings. Yet, over the course of the Golden Girls ' run ... stuck in an elevator, and we learned more about Rose’s adoption. (She was left on the orphanage doorstep ...
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  Re: Shameless

  Here here

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, June 18, 2014 — 5:43 am

  a lesbian mother. My gut tells me no, and if I'm right, we'll learn an important lesson about ...
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  Shameless

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  Nick Hetherington COLAGE

  June 19, 2014

  1 comment

  Shameless the new normal Queer Modern Family equality Curator's Note I love this show. Why? It says it in the title and everyone is equal in their arrant, naughty behavior. I especially love seeing a recently outed lesbian mother portrayed as a begui ...
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  Queer Family Values

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  Annie Van Avery COLAGE

  June 20, 2014

  2 comments

  that we do not see in contemporary media – the differences in the values that we can learn from growing ... of isolation, homophobia), being made to feel unsafe, and then learning from our parent/s and each ...
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  Repetition, Nostalgia, and the Obsessive Joy of LEGO Video Games

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  June 25, 2014

  6 comments

  Repetition, Nostalgia, and the Obsessive Joy of LEGO Video Games video games Traveller's Tales repetition nostalgia licensing LEGO franchises Curator's Note Since 2005, Traveller’s Tales (TT) has produced 14 LEGO video games based on LEGO-licens ...
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  Truth and Knowledge in LEGO Bi-Dimensions

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  Alan Chu University of Arizona

  June 26, 2014

  4 comments

  instructions. The instructions, as viewers learn, are artifacts of slave labor forcefully composed by captured ...
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  Re: Repetition, Nostalgia, and the Obsessive Joy of LEGO Video Games

  Relationship to TV

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 4:19 pm

  of the recycling and rebooting that runs rampant in expensive and high profile media properties. For ...
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  Re: Truth and Knowledge in LEGO Bi-Dimensions

  Productive Tensions

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 4:57 pm

  instructions, and this is how they learn to come together as a collective to battle Lord Business. As a further ...
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  Queering Captain Planet and HIV/AIDS

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  Taylor Cole Miller UW Madison

  August 07, 2014

  6 comments

  the Saturday, 21 November 1992, episode aired in first-run syndication, young viewers across the ...
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  Maraş dondurmasi: Secrets of a Magical Ice Cream Commodity

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  Joe Culpepper University of Toronto

  August 11, 2014

  2 comments

  Maraş dondurmasi: Secrets of a Magical Ice Cream Commodity Turkey Sleight of Hand performance Magic Istanbul Ice Cream Curator's Note Sleight-of-hand performances by vendors of maraş dondurmasi —Turkish ice cream from the city of Maraş, in the region ...

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