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A Tale of Two Trans Men: Transmasculine Identity and Trauma in Two Fairy-Tale Retellings
Get PDFTransgender identities in fairy tale retellings are rare, but can reveal much about gender fluidity. Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird conflates transgender identities with mirrored falsehoods and fairytale spells, pathologizing a trauma victim who turns out to also become an abuser, while Gabriel Vidrine’s novella “A Pair of Raven Wings” depicts a queer transgender man with dignity, making it clear that the trauma he suffers is at the hands of bigots rather than being an invention of a sick mind or the cause of his transition. Pairing these fairy-tale retellings illuminates the topic of gender fluidity in fairy tales by demonstrating that gender is indeed fluid, but that representations of gender fluidity due to trauma are misguided at best and harmful at worst, while those representations that assert the dignity of transgender people, even as they face trauma at the hands of bigoted people, are another stellar example of the genre’s potential to represent people who are culturally marginalized, connecting identity to power in a classic magical fairytale move
Collaborative Consultations: Guiding First-Year Students’ Research using a Writer’s Workshop Model
Get PDFMaterials for a virtual presentation for a Lightning Talk at the Association of College and Research Libraries Virtual Conference in April 2021
Building Great Mental Health Professional–Teacher Teams: A Systematic Approach to Social-Emotional Learning for Students and Educators
No full textLearn how teachers, school counselors, psychologists, and social workers can harness their collective power to support the complex needs of students through meaningful team building. Foster productive social-emotional learning (SEL) that promotes a whole-child education
Food Deserts in Indianapolis
Get PDFThis project focuses on the issue of food deserts in Indianapolis
Hostile Architecture
Get PDFThis project is centered around the concept of public spaces and architecture that is intentionally designed to prevent unhoused people from having unlimited access to the environment for survival purposes
Reshaping the Canon: How “Insta-Poets” Are Creating a New Literary Space for Readers Using Social Media
Get PDFReading and analyzing poetry can be an equally beautiful and frustrating experience. Interacting with a poem allows a reader to access untapped emotions through the words on the page; yet, when not given the tools to understand canonical poetry, young readers are often left at a loss. The rise of “Insta-poetry” gives younger generations of readers access to poems that are both relatable in experience and language. Using Rupi Kaur as a vehicle towards unmasking the importance of the rise of poetry on Instagram, this thesis highlights the importance of reshaping the literary canon to become a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible experience. The first section, “reshaping the canon,” will detail the historical background of canon formation and the subsequent need to allow more poets into the canon to eliminate the elitist nature of poetry. The second section, “Rupi Kaur and social media,” dives deep into how Instagram as a platform provides a productive space for young readers to connect with poetry more than ever before. Lastly, “diversity, equity, and accessibility” uncovers why and how Instagram as a publishing tool for poetry increases diversity in writers and readers alike, and allows poetry to become a more equitable experience for all