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  • Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

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    Jones, Whitney K.
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    The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
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    the experiences of students at Bryn Mawr, Smith and Mount Holyoke; three of the remaining 44 women’s

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

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    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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    approximately 250,000 (Macionis). Andrea Smith argues that genocide and colonialism form one pillar that

  • Sites of Memory : Black Women's Geographies, #SayHerName, and Black Hair Politics

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    Adkins, Daryl
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    According to Katherine McKittrick, black women’s geographies reveal and confront geographies of domination that have been erased or considered unworthy of analysis. This thesis positions #SayHerName protests and natural kink/coiled hair within a black women’s geographic analysis suggesting that both body and hair politics provide historical and contemporary geographic clues...
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    , clearing the land, in order to turn the land into property (Smith). As a result of slave labor

  • Dark Yolk: Decolonial Two-Spirit Storytelling

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    Hall, Tiramisu D.
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    This work examines the decolonial potential of queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous storytelling by telling stories using graphic novel chapters, literary analysis, and graphic analysis. I explore the importance of stories in defining us as individuals, as peoples, and as humans. As a mixed-race Indigenous (unregistered Cherokee) transwoman, I engage with...
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    , and ontologies of that space” (Smith et al. 27). This connects with a lot of the ideas Barnd

  • Advocates Empowered : Queering the Contemporary Movement Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

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    Shelton, Samuel Z.
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    While the contemporary movement against sexual and domestic violence has roots in radical, feminist theory and anti-state, community-based modes of resistance, over the past several decades, advocates and activists have increasingly turned to corporations and the state for support through the non-profit, prison, and medical industrial complexes. This acceptance of...
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    studied the works of people such as Andrea Smith and Beth Richie, who take a hard stance against the

  • “Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

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    Graham, Devon E.
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    This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
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    . Elizabeth Sheehan, Dr. Mehra Shirazi, Dr. Ben Mutschler, and Dr. Stacey Smith. I am also so grateful to my