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  Service Interruption: Social Media in Academia

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  November 05, 2017

  Service Interruption: Social Media in Academia twitter social media emotional labour academia Curator's Note In this short comedy video by Tim Price, he presents a stereotypical professor (complete with pipe and typewriter) as he fulfills his "s ...
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  Transgender Webcomics

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  September 02, 2017

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  Transgender Webcomics webcomics transgender LGBTQ gender comics Curator's Note In the West, the transgender narrative has a standard arc. Jay Prosser describes it as beginning in childhood with the discovery of gendered self not represented through t ...
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  Torrey Pines and the Transgender Time Traveler

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  March 27, 2017

  Torrey Pines and the Transgender Time Traveler transgender trans Time media LGBTQ film Curator's Note The film trailer for Torrey Pines sets up the story about a young girl who goes on the road with her mother who--as the song in the background says- ...
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  The Trans Victim/Criminal in True Crime Stories

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  February 14, 2017

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  The Trans Victim/Criminal in True Crime Stories true crime transgender hate crimes gender documentary Curator's Note If there is a transgender person involved in a true crime story, they are usually the victim. The 2007 film Trained in the Ways of Me ...
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  Teaching Academic Integrity in A Post-Truth Age

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  February 03, 2017

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  Teaching Academic Integrity in A Post-Truth Age Post-Truth pedagogy citations academic publishing academic integrity Curator's Note I've joked that John Oliver saw the problematic state of citations before anyone else. Colbert is known for his c ...
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  Holiday Romance: Imagining Queer Potential

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  December 20, 2016

  Holiday Romance: Imagining Queer Potential romance novels Romance queer LGBTQ holiday media Curator's Note Wedged between the classic holiday films on Netflix are a plethora of nondescript romances, like Christmas Ranch, Christmas Belle, and Christma ...
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  Haunted Photography: Barthes' Camera Lucida and the Transgender Before/After Image

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  December 02, 2016

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  Haunted Photography: Barthes' Camera Lucida and the Transgender Before/After Image transgender Photography Media and the Occult Curator's Note With her Vanity Fair cover, Caitlyn Jenner announced to the world "Call me Caitlyn." During ...
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  'It's Stars AND Stripes': Shipping Bisexual Characters in The Marvel Cinematic Universe

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  June 25, 2015

  'It's Stars AND Stripes': Shipping Bisexual Characters in The Marvel Cinematic Universe shipping queer bisexuality Curator's Note If you type 'bisexual Steve Rogers' into YouTube or Tumblr, this is one of the many clips, gifs ...
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  Rewriting Diversity in The Classroom Syllabus Through Fanfiction

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  April 06, 2015

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  Rewriting Diversity in The Classroom Syllabus Through Fanfiction Patricia Bizzell and Mary Louise Pratt have spoken for years about re-conceptualizing what an English syllabus could look like. Most of their criticism comes from the fact that our curriculu ...
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  Crossplay and Cosplay: Troubling Gender and Identity

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  March 11, 2015

  Crossplay and Cosplay: Troubling Gender and Identity Today I want to talk about the ways in which cosplay, especially crossplay (the act of dressing as a differently gendered character than one's own gender), can help shape our understanding of gende ...