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    Gsa Reflection

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    group and I started going to our school’s GSA. The GSA then stood for Gay-Straight Alliance but later we changed it to stand for Gender and Sexuality Alliance in an effort to be more inclusive. Back then, many of my friends didn’t actually identify as queer or part of the LGBT community, but that would change in the next few years. I also experienced that change, as it was that year that I discovered that I am pansexual, and then the next year that I discovered that I am agender. I was lucky enough to

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    Based on the trailer for I, Robot (2004), the people overall represent the norm while robots represent the Other in this scenario. In this case, the people show superiority over the robots because they were designed to serve as helpful servants to be trusted with the world. With the belief that robots are not human, they are expected to be programmed for certain duties and jobs. The term basic repression shows that our individual nature makes us human while surplus repression signifies how androids

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    The organization that I volunteered for is BAGLY. BAGLY stands for Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Youth. BAGLY is a youth led, adult supported organization in the Boston area for LGBTQ youth. BAGLY was founded in July 1980, the organization was created because LGBTQ youth believed that there needed to be a center for them in Boston. BAGLY is located at 14 Beacon St, right near the Massachusets state house. I decided to volunteer for this organization because I am part of the LGBTQ community and

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    Reflection Paper

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    I have a few miscellaneous thoughts going through my head and it is about what we have spoken about in the past few weeks. Acting in an adversary v. mutualistic way. I think the adversary will always be there, it is inevitable with all of our identities and individualism, which some reject, but I doubt anybody can push it completely aside. I think this is bigger than the question of Capitalism v. Communism. Respectively, one renders a society to think individualistic; the other renders a society

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    The term “queer” can be viewed as many different meanings. A couple of meanings of the term “queer” include odd and homosexual. In Willa Cather’s novel, The Professor’s House, there can be a connection to the term queer between the two characters Tom Outland and the Professor, Godfrey St. Peter. In Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the term queer can again be viewed in the reading. Although some may think Tom and the Professor’s relationship was one hundred percent

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    Queer: LGBTQ + Community

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    Queer has gathered multiple meanings since it was first used. Because of the many different meanings, queer can be used as an adjective or a verb. It originally comes from “Low German queer which is related to the German quer and that is from the Old High German word twerh” (Haper). All of the German words share the meaning oblique. The main root terkw- is a Proto-Indo-European root which means “to twist” (Harper). The oldest English meaning of the word is from the 1500’s from Scotland. Originally

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    In A Rage: Violence and Queer Criticism Society has certain paradigms when it comes to gender. For instance, men are often expected to be intelligent, strong, aggressive, and violent. On the other hand, women are often seen as submissive, voiceless, and victims. The idea of male superiority is very evident and still in practice; these expectations set forth by society are also evident in pieces of literary works. As critiqued through a political/queer lens Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein contains

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    Black Queer Love

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    which was featured in Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus’ 4th production named “Paradise: A New Mythology”, these two artists show black queer love in a new light. One that is completely in sync, free from stigma, and gender-free. The blending of energies from these two artists is more than powerful, it is life changing. Watching this, one cannot help, but to be compelled by the magnificent beauty which is performed on this stage. This dynamic expression of black queer love is so sensual and so pure at the

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    Queer Theory : The Matrix

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    The Matrix Queer Theory Postcolonial Theory Kaupapa Māori Mana Wahine Value Queer theory questions creations of normal and divergent, insider, and outsider.2 Queer theorists analyse a situation or a text to determine the relationship between sexuality, power and gender. Queer theory challenges basic tropes used to organize our society and our language: even words are gendered, and through that gendering an elliptical view of the hierarchy of society, and presumption of what is male and what

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    Queer Theory Essay

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    - LGBTQ criticism or Queer theory is very diverse and interpreted in different ways. Generally, it focuses on identity and gender and deconstructs society (politically, socially and economically through different lenses of not just gay or lesbians, but transgender and bisexuals too). Also what normativity is, who is excluded from it and how it portrays to different people. Queer theory is very complex, for there are not limitations and there is not a single perspective. This theory is relatively

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