Browsing by Subject "LGBTQ studies"
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Curtailing Excess: The Excision of Idolatry, Magic, and Non-reproductive Sex in Colonial Mexico
(2022)This dissertation employs excess as an analytical framework to explore the ways in which commoner indigenous and mixed-raced peoples accessed the divine to alleviate the ills afflicting their communities. This study also ... -
Discrimination in Workplace, Health Care, Family Settings and Mental Health among Transgender People in Sri Lanka
(2023)Despite numerous studies demonstrating high rates of discrimination and poor mental health among transgender people in Western countries, little research has been conducted on this population in Sri Lanka. As such, the primary ... -
Estimating the Association Between Mental Health and Disability Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
(2023)Background: While nationwide health surveys commonly assess the prevalence of mental health conditions and disability status at the population level, they often fail to elucidate the relationship between mental health and ... -
In Between the Closet and the Wild: Queer Animality in Contemporary China
(2023)This thesis investigates the intersections between queer and posthuman studies, exploring how animality can serve as a force for queer movements. Drawing on the theories of Eve Sedgwick and Jack Halberstam, this project ... -
Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support.
(2021)Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support investigates the cultural visibility and value of maintenance labor through a critical examination of American visual and material culture, post-1969. ... -
Out of the Church Closet: Hope for the Evangelical Covenant Church and Sexual Minorities in the Local Congregation
(2019)The Evangelical Covenant Church, like so many Christian denominations, is embroiled in conflict over homosexuality and gay marriage. This small North American denomination cannot afford a split, not only due to its small ... -
Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
(2017)This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document ... -
Picturing Poetics: Seriality, Comics, and the Cartoon in US Experimental Poetry
(2020)I argue that experimental poets, beginning with Gertrude Stein but proliferating later in the century with such poets as Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Joe Brainard, and Barbara Guest, were drawn to comics for the way they perform, ... -
Queer Women's Activism in China: Trauma, Sociality, and Confrontational Politics
(2021)In an ethnography of queer women’s (lala) activism in China, I tell the story of a social movement from its effusive beginning to disillusionment and pose the difficult question of what went wrong. I trace the dissolution ... -
State Violence and Transgender Cultural Politics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
(2020)This dissertation turns to illiberal state violence and state formation in Latin America’s Southern Cone region as the ground for trans politics and activisms. Focusing on the entanglements of Argentine trans politics with ... -
The Lure of Origins: Sexology and the Trans Autobiographical Mandate
(2023)This dissertation, The Lure of Origins: Sexology and the Trans Autobiographical Mandate, intervenes in the conundrum I call “the trans autobiographical mandate” that characterizes the relationship between U.S. Trans studies ... -
The Perspectives of Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Adolescent Males with Parent-Child Sex Communication
(2016)Problem: Gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) adolescent males are disproportionately affected by negative sexual health outcomes compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Their sex education needs are not sufficiently addressed ... -
Tracing, Expanding, and Making Accessible the Digital Pathways of Latinx Sexual Dissidence in the Hemisphere
(2020)The project aims to analyze, archive, and enable the powerful ways that contemporary Latinx intersectional queer activists, located in sites as disparate as Oakland (U.S.) and Santiago (Chile), use YouTube, Facebook, and ...
