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  • "I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

    Creator:
    Koch, Elizabeth C.
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    Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Mehra A. Shirazi Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States

  • Whisper Like Lovers: (Re)membering Story as Soul Retrieval, Susurrar Como Amantes: (Re)cordando Narraciones Como Recuperación del Alma

    Creator:
    Fertig, Mateo Rosales
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    In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a Curanderismx soul retrieval ceremony as a method of grappling with queerness and multiraciality in anti-colonial border and Chicanx contexts. From the legacies of Chicana, women of color, and QTPOC feminisms, they write out of the works and theories...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Heath Rakes In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a

  • Ni de aquí ni de alla : A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between

    Creator:
    López, Andrés C.
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    Stories of the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960 until 1996, have often focused on only encapsulating the violence indigenous people experienced at the hands of the Guatemalan government and military. Although these stories contributed to the many civil rights organizing and calls for justice that followed, these types...
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    Sexuality Studies presented on May 16, 2016. Title: Ni de aquí ni de alla: A Mythohistoriography of

  • Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

    Creator:
    López, Andrés C.
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    This dissertation is a memoria histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War that centers queer and trans Maya people in its imaginings. Using Maya backstrap weaving practices, “constellating” as defined by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab, and ghost stories as a Maya-centered queer/trans rhetorical methodology, I argue for a shift from...
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    Dissertation
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    Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

  • You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

    Creator:
    Conway, Clare
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    Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
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    Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political

  • Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

    Creator:
    Moody, Jeana S.
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    This study looks at how gendered language circulates affect in order to coerce gender binary conformity. I analyze the ways gendered phrases like “sit like a lady”, “don’t be a bitch”, and “man up” communicate binary gender expectations within a U.S. context, and what they have to do with larger...
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    coerce gender binary conformity. I analyze the ways gendered phrases like “sit like a lady”, “don’t

  • Putting Coyolxauhqui Back Together : Queer Nepantleras Rewriting Latinx Memory

    Creator:
    Villalba, Alex Aleman
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    Indigenous and Latinx communities have always used storytelling to pass along ancestral histories and memories, whether it be through the act of speaking, performing or other types of artwork. This thesis examines the ways that queer Latinx artists are retelling the stories that have been mistold to erase, repress and...
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    indigenous and Latinx individuals. Chapter One focuses on the movement towards a gender non-specific

  • Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

    Creator:
    Miller, Gabrielle
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    This thesis thinks through the ways in which Black and Native storying offer epistemological interventions on neoliberal formations of multiracial identity. I argue that Black and Native storytelling methods and methodologies facilitate rethinking and re/unlearning relationships to the racial and ethnic categories of mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial, as well as...
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    Native Storytelling by Gabrielle Miller A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    children’s literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others

  • Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

    Creator:
    Buzo Tipton, Carina M.
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    This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by familial healing practices, women of color feminisms, and institutional critique. My research centers my family’s generational Curandera practices. As I honor the call to be critical of the master’s tools, I seek possibilities for institutional change through Curandera feminism. Institutions...
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    Patti Duncan This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by