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Law & Order, Queer Parenting, and My Love for the Queer Mobilities, Queer Citizenship

Posted on June 16, 2011

Juana Rodriguez writes in this chapter: “Before the perceived gay and lesbian baby boom of the 1990s, children were often seen as the unwelcome vestiges of previous heterosexual relationships, as the unplanned evidence of lusty slippages outside the gay and … Continue reading →

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America the Stork

Posted on June 15, 2011

Samantha Barnard Queer Mobilities, Queer Citizenship Professor Cathy Hannabach June 15, 2011 America the Stork Tourism is widely popular. To have tourist destinations in your country opens up many doors such as economic prosperity. Tourist destinations play a huge role … Continue reading →

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Mobility, Detention, and Who is it Hurting: Guantanamo Bay

Posted on June 9, 2011

Mobility and immobility are important and interesting to the prison-industrial-military complex.  Those who are portrayed as good have unlimited mobility to move about the complex in which they inhabit.  Those who have unlimited mobility are usually the workers.  The prisoners … Continue reading →

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Mutants Invisibly Running Rampant…

Posted on June 2, 2011

In class we discussed the contagion narrative: this narrative starts with an origin and spreads rapidly [or thought to be rapid spreading] through human bodies.  As Cathy described, it is like a Disney Movie:  Villain and the “bad disease” [in … Continue reading →

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Is everyone watching me? Judging me?

Posted on May 26, 2011

As a politics major, I love getting my daily dose of news in the morning.  This morning, Good Morning America had a story that is the inspiration behind my post for this week. We’ve been discussing visual surveillance in class … Continue reading →

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Black/White Name Resume Study

Posted on May 23, 2011

Here is the link to an article about the Resume Study mentioned in class

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Tying together the multitude of thoughts…

Posted on May 20, 2011

With this week’s readings I thought hard about examples that could encompass each.  I think the television show Will and Grace is a great example that ties all the articles from this week and the ideas presented by Eng, Puar, … Continue reading →

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Desire, immigration, and it’s connection to a queer naturalization

Posted on May 12, 2011

My name is Samantha Barnard.  21 years old and a Senior this year at the University of Pittsburgh. Dad’s I am a Political Science Major, Legal Studies Minor, and working to obtain a Certificate in Women’s Studies.  I took this … Continue reading →

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