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• In Media Res
  Re: Learning to Stand

  Autonomy and Interdependence

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  Saturday, February 5, 2011 — 7:14 pm

  Thanks, Michael and Karin, for concluding the theme week with such a rich and provocative post.   Your observations have given me a new appreciation for Lady Grey London and have opened up some fascinating avenues of exploration.   Throughout the week, I’ ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus

  Re: Crip Glimpses

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  Wednesday, February 2, 2011 — 6:37 pm

  Thanks, Michael, for these wonderful observations.   I completely agree with you about that brief moment during the “in the end” sequence in which Justin Bond licks Tobias’s forehead with perverse abandon (a moment that had I hadn’t actually noticed until ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus

  Frankenfurter vs. Lady Grey?

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  Thursday, February 3, 2011 — 8:14 pm

  What a fascinating video – thanks, Kris, for bringing it to my attention!  Like Karin, I also see a problematic rehabilitative logic at work here.  As I watched Lady Grey lift and stroke McKellen’s legs, I was actually reminded of the Rocky Horror “Don’t ...
• In Media Res
  Re: John Cameron Mitchell's Relationscapes

  A couple of thoughts

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  Tuesday, February 1, 2011 — 4:20 am

  Hi Michael and Karin, Thanks for a great opening post!   For me, this beautifully articulated what’s at stake in the film’s multiple fluid pairings, and has given me some new frameworks and vocabularies for thinking through what Mitchell might be up to.   ...