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Queering the Family in Zoraida Córdova’s \u3ci\u3eLabyrinth Lost\u3c/i\u3e
No full textLabyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova focuses on Alex Mortiz, a Mexican-American bruja and her journey to a fantastical otherworld to rescue her family. Alex begins to understand the love and unity that exists in her own blood family, while forging new relationships, thereby creating a found family, or queered family. The topic of this paper addresses queerness and found family dynamics in Labyrinth Lost. While many scholars have written on themes in fantasy and magical realism texts by Latino/a and Hispanic authors, these genres tend to be under-researched in literature for young adults. My argument analyzes Labyrinth Lost as emblematic of Latino/a family dynamics and queer, or found, families. Latinx Studies claim that the loyalty from family is the primary framework through which Chicano/a individuals experience support and guidance; however, I argue that Labyrinth Lost, through the lens of speculative fiction and other genre elements, queers the definition of family to include one’s found family: including friends, romantic relationships, and more distant relations. This woman-led and woman-written narrative allow the bounds of Chicana feminist theory to thrive; this novel actively works against the man-saturated, machismo world that is most often centered in Latinx and Chicanx works
January 2024 Bulldog Alumni & Friends News
Get PDFJanuary 18 SWOSU Alumni Music Mixer, Tulsa. SWOSU Music Mixer Tulsa – SWOSU Foundation.
February 15 &16 SWOSU Jazz Festival, www.SWOSUJazz.com
March 18-22 Spring Break
April 5 Friends of Crowder Lake Dinner & North Family Endowed Lecture
April 6 Crowder Lake Opening Day
April 15 Dobson Bulldog Golf Classi
Sauron, Seduction, and the Queering Mechanism of the Ring
Get PDFIt has often been argued that Sauron is barely present in the Lord of the Rings, existing as a villainous presence on the margins of the narrative. This paper will argue that Sauron is actually present throughout the entire narrative, as manifested in the Ring, and through the Ring’s presence as a queering device. The Ring acts out Sauron’s seduction mechanism, a defining character trait as portrayed in the Silmarillion. It is this seduction mechanism that allows the Ring to act as a queering agent throughout the narrative. Ring-lust is inherently queer as it projects a male-presented character’s seductive powers, enacted on male characters, and capitalizes on their already-present distance from heteronormativity to “corrupt” them further from normative society and prevent their reintegration. In Bilbo and Frodo’s case, their independent queerness is in many ways at odds with the queering device of the Ring, which alienates Bilbo and Frodo further from heteronormative society, functioning as a surrogate wife, and raises questions of “good” versus “bad” queerness in productive society. The Ring also capitalizes on Boromir’s homosocial hypermasculinity, manipulating his already present queerness into a corrupted version of itself
I\u27d Rather Be a River than a Man: The Trans Jewish Golem/ Trans Inequity, Intersectional Ritual, and Jewish Tikkun Olam (Healing of the World)
Get PDFI\u27d Rather Be a River than a Man: The Trans Jewish Golem Dean Leetal
This critical commentary revisits the Jewish story of the Golem and reads it as a transgender text. Some say that the Golem inspired Mary Shelley\u27s Frankenstein, a story famously interpreted by Susan Stryker as an allegory for her own trans experience: living on the edge of society, her humanity debated, defined by a morally questionable medical establishment. But there are important differences between Frankenstein and the Golem. The Golem is brought to life through language, particularly the Hebrew word ‘emet,’ and is an animated clay tasked with protecting Jewish marginalized communities. Today, questions of language and truth are at the center of many debates regarding the validity and nature of transgender people. The concept of protecting marginalized communities, even while being rejected from them, is also painfully relevant. Unlike Frankenstein, though, the Golem is not verbal, which is linked to autism. Thus, I argue that a neurogender analysis of their story that accounts for both gender and neurodivergence is critical. This reading focuses on these points of relation and what they may bring to light.
Trans Inequity, Intersectional Ritual, and Jewish Tikkun Olam (Healing of the World) Valerie Estelle Frankel
As Jewish science fiction expands into twenty-first-century questions of identity, some authors explore the trans experience and build bridges towards intersectionality. Ritual and tradition become popular subjects. In the post-apocalyptic Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud by Andrew Ramer, diverse rabbis create new prayers and practices. A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys offers protagonists from a diverse commune. There, Judy Wallach-Stevens encounters aliens and negotiates with them, since they find nursing mothers better suited to the peace process. The story ends with an inclusive Passover seder, even as the new allies resist their oppressors, the corporations. Bogi Takács’ short story “Three Partitions” questions where to segregate the shapeshifting alien Adira, and why the Orthodox space colony must make changes. In “Unifications,” the characters of different eras quest to gather the sparks of the shattered world to bring universal healing. Several of these stories ask how comfortable Jewish protagonists are with alien rituals and explore incorporating or blending them for a truly universal experience. All consider how to change practice for a more inclusive twenty-first century religion
Interview with Lee Crowdis
No full textLee Crowdis
Resident of Thomas, OK
Interviewed September 18th, 2024
Interviewed at the Al Harris Library in Weatherford, OK
4/21/2024 Music Academy Recital
No full text4/21/2024 Music Academy Recital
April 21, 2024 7:00 p.m. at Berrong Music Hal
SWOSU & National Cohort IPEDS Data Feedback Report 2024
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