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The Relationship Between Social Media Usage During the Covid-19 Pandemic, and Its Effect on the Youth Voter Turnout in the 2020 General Election
Get PDFHistory has shown that young voters have been known to be a lagging demographic when it comes to voter turnout in general elections. However, in 2020 there was a sudden spike in voter turnout in the age group of 18-24-year-olds. This sudden spike in voter turnout can be explained by the societal changes the youth demographic faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic and isolation protocols. Due to social distancing, normal in-person political participation shifted to online environments, especially on social media. Through social media, young people began to become more engaged politically as they gained access to political information and discourse about their political ideology and opinions. This increase of non-traditional political engagement through social media inspired young people to continue their political impact by showing up to the polls in the 2020 general election
Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Women’s Contrarian Views on the Russia-Ukraine War
Get PDFMost reactions to the Russia-Ukraine War, especially in the West, have been critical of Moscow’s aggression and sympathetic to Ukraine. But there is also a view, especially in the East, that the situation is not as black and white as it is made out to be, that there is a gray-area in global affairs related to the conflict. This research article highlights contrarian views from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and the reasons for the same. It also examines contrarian women’s perspectives on how underplaying the plight of war-affected women in the Middle East, compared to highlighting the plight of Ukrainian women, is tantamount to hypocrisy. It argues that these contrarian views are partly rooted in ideological moorings and also economic, political, and security concerns. Using empirical data from secondary sources, this article also contends that such reactions do not condone Russia’s belligerence but reflect a growing multipolar global order where strategic ambivalence on global affairs is a new tool to promote strategic autonomy as well as often-ignored human security
Gender Discrimination in Hong Kong Churches
Get PDFInstitutional sexism continues to hinder women’s career progression, creating hurdles that women must overcome in the workplace. The context of institutional religion is not exempt from such gender-related injustice, and women in leadership positions within the ecclesiastical system are vulnerable to overt gender inequality. This article examines gender disenfranchisement in Hong Kong churches. It utilizes data gathered and processed through the qualitative research methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to analyze the lived experience of clergywomen in English-speaking faith communities in Hong Kong. The study reveals the indisputable presence of institutional sexism manifested and perpetuated by a host of gender marginalizing treatments which I refer to as gender discrimination. These oppressive, discriminatory practices range in gravity and verbal explicitness, and have been categorized as physical, emotional, and theological in nature. The pervasive and acute discriminatory behaviors collectively diminish women’s voices and authority and maintain the power disparity between women and men. This article deepens the understanding of the patriarchal status quo of the Hong Kong church, expands on the existing research corpus on gender discrimination in the church, and hopes to join in the global feminist dialogue to support provisions to address the detrimental impacts on women serving in leadership roles
Performance Art as a Site of Socio-spatial Resistance: Challenging Geographies of Gendered Violence
Get PDFBy researching the intersections of art, geography, and violence, this paper interrogates performance art and its capacity to question one’s gendered existence in space/place. Through an analysis of two performance art pieces—J. Hawkes’s Playing Kate (2018) and Cassils’s PISSED (2017)—I explore the connections between art, gendered bodies, and space/place, while establishing a link between and across feminist and trans* gendered tyrannies. While discussing feminist and trans* performance art, this paper probes the felt and lived harms that are experienced by feminist women and trans* individuals in gendered locales and addresses ways in which art can challenge socio-spatial violence. Overall, through a broad exploration of geographies of art and violence, this paper speaks of spatial gendered oppression as well as spatialized potential and hope
Leaning in and Bouncing Back: Neoliberal Feminism and the Work of Self-Transformation in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) and Halle Butler’s The New Me (2019)
Get PDFThis article is concerned with the capacity of contemporary fiction to reveal and oppose the ubiquity of work in Western culture. I conduct a comparative literary analysis of two contemporary novels that expose how neoliberal rationality has transformed work into an all-encompassing project, endorsed by a corresponding manifestation of feminism. Rather than challenging gendered labor relations through collective action, this “neoliberal feminism” incites women to turn their critical gaze within and transform themselves into resilient citizens and workers. Its sensibility is disseminated through popular literature, from “chick-lit” to self-help books, via narratives of physical and psychological self-transformation. This article builds on feminist scholarship which has critiqued the popular cultural domination of neoliberal feminism, offering a new contribution by identifying a nascent genre of anti-neoliberal feminist fictional writing. I argue that Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) and Halle Butler’s The New Me (2019) constitute a literary resistance to neoliberal feminism where the trope of self-transformation is employed to expose and reject an endorsement of oppressive work culture. Depicting characters who obsessively work on themselves to survive the precarious neoliberal labor market, they reveal the hypocrisy of a feminism subdued by incessant labor and pressed into the service of neoliberalism, positioning literature as a potential site for resistance
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Get PDFNurture: Exploring Surrogacy through Visual Art
Get PDFThis body of work portrays my time being a gestational surrogate for a family member and the honor I felt to be part of the journey. As a surrogate you are opening your life – physically and mentally to carry someone else’s load – for me this was a choice, a joy, and not a burden. This work takes the form of a large mixed media installation, which chronicles the complex journey I had as a gestational surrogate. Wall-mounted assemblages take viewers through a timeline documenting the different chapters of this experience. Stages include contracts and legal status, medical examinations and preparation, implantation, and my relationship with the family. The assemblages contain altered medical documents, medication, correspondence, tins, hair, breast milk, and personal items collected during the surrogacy. While this pregnancy was not always easy, the hard work and challenges do not make it less important or rewarding. I am devoted to sharing this story and remove the stigma that surrogacy would be an impersonal service or doomed to end with a sense of loss. The gift of surrogacy is invisible after the baby is born. This work provides visual evidence of this intangible experience