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“The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro-Sex Work Analysis of the Digital Age

Creator:: Barrett, Emerson LR
Abstract:: “The system is fucked. Everything needs to change” was stated by Ashley Paige, a professional dominatrix and author in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, at a book launch event. Paige’s sentiments are poignant and a call to action to all of us. Through this thesis, I will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: action to all of us. Through this thesis, I will outline some of the ways in which the current system

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

Creator:: Fertig, Mateo Rosales
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: “Cheo” Torres and Curandera Elena Avila. In addition, I draw from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

Creator:: Diaz-Hui, Alexander
Abstract:: This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: examining poetry collections by Mónica de la Torre and Urayoán Noel, I highlight how experiments in

Remapping the Margins: Women's Narratives and Perspectives about Health and Access on the State of Amazonas

Creator:: Lenzi Miori, Maria Cristina
Abstract:: According to the Girls’ Opportunity Index formulated by Lenhardt, et al, (2016), Brazil is the least favorable country in South America to succeed being born a woman, ranking the 102nd position out of 144 analyzed countries. This macro-level statistic speaks to the present landscape of gender inequality, shaped since the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ____________________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Creator:: Eiwaz, Massarra Adnan
Abstract:: Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees’ experiences of discrimination, re-traumatization, gaps in healthcare services, and disrupted expectations and lived-realities. This thesis aims to fill a critical need for ethnographic studies investigating how recent anti-immigrant, -Muslim, and -Arab rhetoric and policies combine with chronic gaps in services...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Women (PCOSW). I also appreciate the collaboration of the Iraqi Society of Oregon and the Middle

Islam, Feminism, and Third-Worldism: Women's Equality in Muslim Spaces

Creator:: Ghanizadeh, Azadeh
Abstract:: This project investigates the ways in which conceptions of women and gender in Islam are articulated within discourses of modernity, freedom, and justice. Considering the ways in which third-world literature and scholarship interacts with, and creates, multiculturalist discourse, this paper examines representation, spokesmanship, and the role of the cosmopolitan humanities...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Approaching this study from a decolonial and Islamic feminist perspective, I look to Persepolis as an

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

Creator:: White, Benjamin A.
Abstract:: This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use of so-called radical enhancement technology. Key concepts analyzed include “normal function”, “human being”, and “personhood.” I argue that the use of these key concepts in the debate thus far has lacked philosophical rigor, and that a reexamination of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ”, “human being”, and “personhood.” I argue that the use of these key concepts in the debate thus far has

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

Creator:: Killeen, Shanna
Abstract:: This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and

The Construction of Masculinity in the Online Communities Where Men Talk About Their Experiences as Buyers in the Sex Trade

Creator:: Rosario Sanchez, Raquel
Abstract:: This thesis on online communities for sex buyers seeks to understand questions such as “what can we learn from online communities for sex buyers?” We explore these issues with the framework of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and through the use of qualitative research of both the review boards at Punternet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: demand something I called ‘agentic complacency’ from women in prostitution. Meaning that sex buyers

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nahua indigenous community. I completed fieldwork in both the local elementary school and within the

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“The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro-Sex Work Analysis of the Digital Age

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

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

Remapping the Margins: Women's Narratives and Perspectives about Health and Access on the State of Amazonas

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Islam, Feminism, and Third-Worldism: Women's Equality in Muslim Spaces

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

The Construction of Masculinity in the Online Communities Where Men Talk About Their Experiences as Buyers in the Sex Trade

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

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