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Interview, Vonda Coney-Jones - July 21, 2025
No full textVonda Coney Jones, a Registered Nurse First Assistant in the operating room at Highland Hospital and a certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, shares her journey into nursing and surgical practice. In this interview, she reflects on the challenges she faced as a woman of color in healthcare, the mentors and support systems that sustained her, and the importance of compassion, resilience, and representation. Her story emphasizes both the technical expertise and advocacy roles nurses play in advancing equitable, patient-centered care
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No full textPhotograph of four men gathered around a pool table at SUNY Geneseo. One student seems to be lining up a shot while the other three look on.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-as-unidentified/1002/thumbnail.jp
1916 Junior Class Photo
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Gen(d)re-Bending in MTV\u27s Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Get PDFGeorges Bizet’s Carmen has been restaged countless times since its premiere in 1875, in settings ranging from its original staging to Broadway musicals to a “hip hopera.” The opera’s revolutionary and boundary-breaking nature has made it a popular vehicle through which musicians have critiqued myriad social issues in historically divergent contexts. Thanks to innumerable reinterpretations, Carmen has been studied and examined through many lenses, most influentially in Susan McClary’s feminist reading of the work (McClary 2002). However, scholars rarely consider the complexity of gender in modern reinterpretations of the opera such as MTV’s 2001 reimagining, Carmen: A Hip Hopera starring Beyoncé Knowles. The film has been written off as a piece of “Millennial lore,” a nostalgia-inducing title that does not seriously critique gender binaries in popular culture. Inspired by Anne Fausto-Sterling’s rejection of hegemonic gender norms espoused in The Five Sexes (1993) and The Five Sexes, Revisited (2001), in this paper I offer a gender critical interpretation of Carmen: A Hip Hopera through an analysis of Carmen’s gen(d)re-bending (fluid movement across genres, from rap to R&B and classical). I argue that the screenwriter’s goal in bridging the gap between “high art” and popular culture inadvertently but effectively questions gender binaries by overtly calling attention to contemporary gender norms. In doing so, I suggest that this work is an enlightening expression of popular culture that can potentially call for a more inclusive understanding of gender and sexual identity in our present moment
Guns, Bombs, and Flying Machines: Assessing Claims of Modern Technology in Ancient India
Get PDFComposed of four books known as the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, and the Atharvaveda, the Vedas are considered the oldest Hindu religious writings in existence. This position grants them significant status in many sects of Hinduism, which count the Vedas a prime source of religious authority and interpret their stories and teachings literally even today. Their authority and integration into contemporary life became a significant part of the Hindu nationalist movement from the 19th century onwards, which interpreted certain passages of the Vedas and other ancient Hindu writings as describing the existence of modern technology thousands of years ago in India. These claims, which alleged the existence of everything from genetic engineering to flying machines, were used as evidence that India was the birthplace of science and technology to create Indian, and more specifically Hindu pride in the middle of colonization. Cited in 2014 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the theories did not die out with independence. Despite the continued lack of any actual archaeological evidence to back them up, interpretation of the Vedas alone has been considered evidence enough for these ideas to remain a focal point in the modern Hindu nationalist movement. This paper will aim to disprove these hyper diffusionist fallacies which once played a role in nation-building but which now support dangerous forms of Hindu nationalism
