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    Queer Anthropology

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    Queer anthropology is often identified under cultural anthropology and combined with studies like gender studies. It focuses on the intersectionality of human life with various identities. Queer anthropologists ask questions around queer theory and how the social constructs of identity can be challenged to envelop a new wave of thinking. Looking back on historical trends

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    Essay Museum Sterotypes

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    Historically, museums have excluded too many people. I want to eradicate the pervasive mind-set that “certain people just don’t visit museums.” Today, in an era of public discourse characterized by instantaneous updating and dynamic participation, a savvy public shares knowledge and gains understanding about the experiences of others at the click of a mouse. The Internet, digital media, video games, content sharing, and social networking enhance and create new methods of learning. Regrettably

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    LOGIC 1-800-273-8255 Interview Transcript Interviewer Mark Kielnhofer Interviewee Sir Robert Bryson Hall II (Logic) Andy Hines (Director) Setting Beverly Hills, California, U.S (Residence of Logic) Date Friday, November 17 2017 Kielnhofer: Logic, could you explain to me about 1800? Logic: I wrote the song from the perspective of someone who is calling the national suicide prevention hotline because they want to commit suicide, They want to end their life

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    Queer Immigrants

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    Based on my findings, British society has facilitated fluid Chinese queer people’s identities, whilst the Chinese context shaped identities still remaining in some way. On the one side, identities flow through the experience of transnational movement. Chinese queer people’s identities are fluid, which can be considered as socially constructed. On the other side, Tam (1998) describes that Chinese migrants in Britain are ‘the least assimilated’ ethnic group because of the deep-rooted Chinese tradition

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    co­existed. J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbuam believed this new transformative cinema arose from a need to “defragment the official cinematic senses”(Hoberman, p. 39). In turn, creating new ideas and concepts to be explored. During this time period, queer/homosexual directors like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and Andy Warhol created pictures like Flaming Creatures, Scorp io Rising, and Blowjob. These films addressed the relationship of heteronormative constructs to homosexuality in new ways via the use

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    Queer Representation

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    The research I will be focusing on will specifically deal with to what extent has the representation of queer people been accurately portrayed in television over the past twenty years? I ask this question because has there actually been a growth in the representation of queer people on television or is this just a generalization that our society today has on the topic? Also, I chose over the past twenty years because I see differences between

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    Analysis Of ' Queer '

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    In the past decades, the word “queer” traversed many definitions, from a pejorative for gay to a self-affirming umbrella term. While the word “queer” is primarily associated with “non-normative” tendencies (Love 172), the word “uncanny…applies to everything that was intended to remain secret, hidden away, and has come into the open” (Freud 132). Upon closer inspection of the words, queer and uncanny, and Andrew Davenport’s popular children’s television show Teletubbies, we see that the Teletubbies

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    and or things that one could think of course a 11-year-old said that. Tony E. Adams defines queer as, “actions that rebel against—heterosexual—heteronormative—expectations of intimate relationships including biases against being single, aspirations for marriage, norms about

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    Queer As Folk

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    television. This chapter covers a study about Gay undergraduate males and the way it makes sense of HIV and its storyline on television. The study draws from the fictional television series Queer as Folk, one of the highest rated programs on cable television. First, the chapter begins by explaining the series Queer as Folk. This series is one wear lesbian and gay men and women live their lives, work, have good and bad days. During this series they do not show HIV as a one-time special occurrence,

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    Queer Community

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    Education About the Queer Community A hate crime (defined by Dictionary.com) is a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act prevents crimes against all people, specifically minorities, based on prejudice (United States Department of Justice). No laws or acts can change the ignorance and

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