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  • Dark Yolk: Decolonial Two-Spirit Storytelling

    Creator:
    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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    : ______________________________________________________ Qwo-Li Driskill This work examines the decolonial potential of queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous

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

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    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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    Growing Up In-Between Abstract Approved: Qwo-Li Driskill Stories of the Guatemalan

  • Putting Coyolxauhqui Back Together : Queer Nepantleras Rewriting Latinx Memory

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    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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    approved: __________________________________ Qwo-Li Driskill Indigenous and Latinx communities

  • 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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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Qwo-Li Driskill

  • Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

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    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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    members; Bradley Boovy, Qwo-Li Driskill, Elizabeth Sheehan, and Adam Schwartz. Thanks to Bradley Boovy

  • LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

    Creator:
    Collins, Harold R., III.
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    Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book Remediation, is a style of writing, recording, presenting, etc. that “makes us aware of the medium or media and (in sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious ways) reminds us of our desire for immediacy” (34). This mode of production...
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    presented on May 25, 2016. Title: LSD, Mules and Men: Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora

  • Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

    Creator:
    Spencer, Megan
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    This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Qwo-Li Driskill This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the

  • Self-made women of China : experiences in small-scale entrepreneurship

    Creator:
    Searles, Mackenzie L.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the lived experiences of women small-scale entrepreneurs in Qingdao, China by placing their collective experiences within relevant social and economic frameworks. This study, conducted in 2011 over a six-month period, applies an ethnographic approach based in modified grounded theory to bring together...
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    -yu Li, and Dr. Janet Lee for your contributions and direction in this process. I am truly

  • Investigating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Genocide against Indigenous Yazidi Women and Girls by ISIS in Iraq

    Creator:
    Hassen, Suha Hazeem
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    In the current armed conflicts that have become known to the international community since the sweeping attacks on northern Iraq on Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) perpetrated extreme forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against a small ancient ethno-religious conservative Yazidi group. ISIS has used SGBV against...
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    and thank my committee members Dr. Patti Duncan and Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill who opened their hearts and

  • Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

    Creator:
    Vanderzee, Vanessa A.
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    The LGBTQ population is widely recognized as an at-risk demographic—as a result ofstigma, studies report sexual and gender minorities experience elevated risk for depression,suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as greater exposure to sexual, physical, andinterpersonal violence (Logie 1244). Asexuality, a marginalized population traditionallyexcluded from the LGBTQ acronym, poses...
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    the members of my thesis committee, Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, and Dr. Elizabeth Gorman