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Sex, drugs and Barbie : gender verification, drug testing, and the commodification of the black female athlete
(2012-08)
Representations of black female sporting bodies, when taken as what Susan Bordo (1997) refers to as “texts of culture,” operate as sites for an interrogation of the production and maintenance of ideologies of race, gender, ...
"Listen to what your jotería is saying” : pain, social harm, and queer Latin@s
(2015-05)
In this dissertation, I investigate how transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (TLGBQ) Latin@s have experienced social harm during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, what is the socio-historical context for ...
"We kind of bro out with each other too." Gender, race and sexuality on and off the rugby pitch
(2013-05)
This study examines the experiences of women rugby players to understand how gender informs their participation in a sport described as masculine. Considering how race, gender, and sexuality constitute women’s identities ...
The pleasure is all ours : race and queerness in the Promised Land
(2012-05)
This paper calls for a queer art and politics that treats identity categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class and others as co-constitutional. With the writer's one-man show, Promised Land: A Radical Queer ...
“The gay Facebook” : friendship, desirability, and HIV in the lives of the gay Internet generation
(2013-12)
Why are men seeking other men online? And how does the Internet influence these men and their sexuality? These are the two underlying questions driving this thesis. To answer these general questions, I conducted a qualitative ...
Breaking the grass ceiling : race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. legal cannabis industry
(2017-12-08)
This study examines the experiences of women who work in legal cannabis to understand how what it means to use or distribute cannabis is changing in the transition from prohibition to legalization. Drawing on 17 in-depth ...
Trapped in a generic closet : black-cast television sitcoms and black gay men
(2015-05)
Trapped in a Generic Closet is an interdisciplinary, mixed methods project that examines the various sites where meaning is made and negotiated with respect to representations of black gay men in black-cast from the mid-late ...