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About vrh6

I am a college student who enjoys reading, writing, talking, and learning new things. For fun, I like to go camping, play soccer (badly), ride bikes, run, and eat! I also love animals. I hope, in true Messiah Complex style, to make a positive mark on the world in my lifetime.

Posted on June 16, 2011

Juana Maria Rodriguez speaks at length about queer adoption and its implications for the heteornormative moral/perverse binary.  This binary uses policies and law routed through norms to mark certain bodies as unsuitable for domesticity, and therefore, for legibility at all. … Continue reading →

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Asylum Policies Regarding the Orient and the War on Terror

Posted on June 15, 2011

Immigration has long been an important issue to the American government and American citizens in ways that change drastically depending on the current political, historical, and cultural climate.  In the contemporary setting, the encouragement of immigration to the U.S. in … Continue reading →

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Fear Constructed Through Race, Class, and Sexuality

Posted on June 9, 2011

While Delinquent, Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo’s All American Story, and Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, Global Lockdown, and the Seductions of Empire all address differing topics in terms of youth and the prison industrial-complex, migrant detention, and global lockdown respectively, these topics may not … Continue reading →

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Contagious Drug Abuse: The Rhetoric of the Prescription Drug Epidemic

Posted on June 2, 2011

I have decided to go a slightly different route with the outbreak narrative.  Instead of focusing on a physical contagion, I have decided to address the mental and physical addiction that can result from prescription drug use, and the discourse … Continue reading →

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The Gay, the Tan, and the Turbaned – The Strength of Visual Characteristics in the Constructions of Bodies

Posted on May 26, 2011

Because I liked Bekki’s post so much (and have found women’s studies affecting my own daily perceptions as well!) I thought I would share some of those instances with you. Well, because 60% of my stories are about my boyfriend, … Continue reading →

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Resistance – How and Why?

Posted on May 19, 2011

I found this week’s readings to be very informative and interesting.  I have longed wonder why the stereotypical privileged gay man exhibited certain qualities like effeminate, theatrical flamboyance, a higher signature voice, and “good” taste in clothing, food, decorating, theater, … Continue reading →

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Synergy and Performance in Queer Migration

Posted on May 12, 2011

1.) As I move closer to my senior year at Pitt, I reflect on the combination of all of the courses I have taken: how they complement each other, how they differ, the style used to teach each subject, the … Continue reading →

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