The Globe Theatre brings new life to the classic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with a diverse cast.
The Globe Theatre’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Summer 2019
Review: Barbican’s ‘AI: More Than Human’ exhibition perhaps not human enough?
Kyle Kashuv vs. Harvard: Or How I Learned to Stop Punishing and Love the Learning
TODAY’S DEBATE: Harvard rescinds acceptance of Parkland, Fla., mass shooting activist Kyle Kashuv after racism he wrote as a 16-year-old student was brought to light.
I am Woman, Hear Me…Purr?
Gender, Collaged
To visually represent my gender identity, I collaged images from novels, music, television shows, and movies because they are the biggest influences on how I perform my gender identity. My identity as a whole was most influenced by my mother being highly encouraging of my intelligence and irreverence (“it’s good to be weird), so media that emphasized those traits in women was what I identify with most. Being a collage of female representations in various media that influenced the expression of my gender identity, it speaks to the cultural constructedness of gender. Continue reading “Gender, Collaged”
American Politics as Neo-Romanticism: Is Trump a Byronic Hero?
Skincare Explained: Evening Routine
New CristinaForever series alert!
@Skin.Critic is a new microblog appearing on this site and on Instagram explaining skincare and beauty by providing informed reviews of products. Continue reading “Skincare Explained: Evening Routine”
Non-binary Isn’t a Funny Word: Success and Failure in a Contemporary Children’s Health Text
Even as a wider variety of sexual identities and practices are accepted in contemporary American society, the updating of sex education to reflect this new normal remains a controversial subject. While the American Academy of Pediatrics (2018) now advocates for transgender and intersex children to not be forced into gender and sex conformity, warning of the alarmingly high health risks associated with such practices, gender diverse people continue to be ignored in sex education. When public school sex education is recognized as insufficient and detrimentally binary, some parents turn to children’s books considered progressive as a tool to aid in sex education at home. However, even award-winning children’s books on the subject still impose a gender binary as normal. Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg (2015) is one such highly praised contemporary text (American Library Continue reading “Non-binary Isn’t a Funny Word: Success and Failure in a Contemporary Children’s Health Text”
Insight: McKinnon (2016) “Gender Violence as Global Phenomenon”
Sara L. McKinnon’s (2016) work on the deployment of female genital mutilation rhetoric to enshrine American paternalistic interventionist practices abroad by otherizing foreign governments and continents was fascinating. It was another reminder that we must look inward when attempting to redress human rights violations (McKinnon, 2016). Through the strategic employment of spatializing language, American foreign policy gains a knight in shining armor mythos (McKinnon, 2016). This halo exempts the US government Continue reading “Insight: McKinnon (2016) “Gender Violence as Global Phenomenon””
Insight: Karin Martin (1998) “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools”
The ethnographic research of Karin Martin (1998) shows how children are molded into gender roles in subtle and overt ways by the school system. I thought these were such interesting theories. If one wanted to ensure a person was subservient, one might make this person feel her body was inherently weaker, in a word, inferior. This applied to an entire class of people could explain the social control imposed on women by way of the encouragement to act “ladylike” and rewarding behavior that is “gender appropriate” in schools. As Martin puts it, “Bodies that clearly delineate gender status facilitate the Continue reading “Insight: Karin Martin (1998) “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools” “
Cristina Forever 