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  Re: Race, Passing, and Lynching: Angel’s “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been”

  Taylor, your questions at the

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  Roxanne Samer University of Southern California

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 — 9:23 pm

  Taylor, your questions at the end of this post do a great job of pointing to the limitations of of the use of metaphor in supernatural shows. Despite vampirism serving as a metaphor (and thus something "different than" but also "similar to& ...
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  Re: The Fanboy next Door: Whedon and his Appeal to self-professed Geeks

  Thanks for this post, Maria.

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  Roxanne Samer University of Southern California

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 — 2:42 pm

  Thanks for this post, Maria. I would like to quickly push back on your comment, however, about Whedon as sole author. Though Whedon has undoubtedly become a name that draws audiences to texts, I do believe many fans of his work have more complicated under ...
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  Re: Dollhouse and Echo(e)s of Future Queerness

  Briar Rose Goes Solo (Except Not Really)

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  Roxanne Samer University of Southern California

  Friday, October 4, 2013 — 4:55 pm

  Casey, I'm so glad you brought up the ending. I think it's a fascinating that, rather than concluding with a kiss, a wedding or some other heteronormative success story, the finale's optimism is figured through a scene of implicit autoeroti ...