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A Baltimore Love Thing: A Look at Social Dances and Their Connection to Communal Healing Amongst Black People in Baltimore
Get PDFThis thesis provides insight on the vast effects of systematic racial injustice towards Black people living in Baltimore, Maryland. It highlights the negative effects of racism and the impact of collective shared trauma, while also bringing attention to the resilience long-time and current residents have shown through the action of movement, dance, and simply being. The essence of the Baltimore originated social dance called Rockin’ Off/Shakin’ Off, developed in 2005, provides the chance to dance out lived individual and shared experiences. The discussion sheds light on similarities between key principles of dance/movement therapy and Rockin’ Off/Shakin’ Off, and how this form has been instrumental in emphasizing how belonging aids in communal healing
A Survey Of Autistic Adults\u27 Opinions On Data Security and Privacy In Precision Medicine Research
No full textThe All Of Us research program, a precision medicine research (PMR) study, has listed among its aims the reduction of health disparities across the United States. In order to achieve this goal it is important to ensure equal representation in the study. This survey represents an effort to explore the often-overlooked views of Autistic individuals, specifically their concerns over data security and privacy, in order to identify potential impediments to their participation in PMR. Of the 104 Autistic participants surveyed, an overwhelming majority (94%, n=98) state they would participate in PMR. However many expressed concern over the privacy of their genetic (69%, n= 72) and health information (76%, n= 79), suggesting that Autistic participants are willing to participate, but may have unique needs that must be met in order to achieve long term engagement. The results of this survey may serve to inform researchers on how to engage those with Autism in PMR
He Knows Who He\u27s Messing With : Hostile/Helpless Representations on the Parent Development Interview
Get PDFCurrent systems for assessing parenting narratives lack the capacity to capture representational phenomena associated with significantly disrupted attachment relationships. This thesis will describe the adaptation of the valid and reliable Hostile/Helpless (HH) coding system for use with the Parent Development Interview (PDI). The hostile–helpless dyadic model posits that these two relational stances derive from an unbalanced internal working model of attachment that is shaped over the course of a caregiver’s own attachment history. Entering parenthood with hostile–helpless representation of caregiving puts a parent at risk of relating to their child from the extreme stance of either unbalanced behavioral position or of vacillating between their poles. Designed to aid in the identification of the most vulnerable parent–child relationships, the HH system for the PDI may have clinical and research value in the detection of disrupted caregiving and risk for maltreatment or disorganized attachment. This thesis will review the theoretical premise and empirical basis for this system, describe the preliminary adaptation process, and explore the HH caregiving narratives of three interviews in depth
Learning To Fly: Collected Works
No full textMy thesis represents a portfolio of work, consisting of nonfiction essays, an excerpt of a novel, and two short stories.
Sky Blue and Black considers the theme of awakenings as it traces the experiences of a young girl growing up in the midwest, then moving to California and on to New York. The stories ex- amine the humanity that exists in every family, the contradictions that abound. As the girl be- comes a woman and then a mother herself, she reflects on the pivotal moments in her life when the curtains were drawn and subsequently pulled back to reveal some greater truth—about her father’s frailty, her mother’s courage, her own fear and fallibility as a parent. These essays com- memorate the places and people central to the narrator’s evolution and they elucidate the truism about life and love; across time, the sky is both blue and black.
Learning to Fly, a novel-in-progress, is about a young girl who lost her father in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. She struggles with the grief over this loss and with manag- ing life as a freshman at Stuyvesant High School. Burdened with fear and regret, about what was and what never came to pass, she happens upon a mystery to uncover, one which sets her on a path to rediscover her father and find her own path back to freedom.
Hey You and Clean Slate are two short stories contending with feminine identify, with love and loss; the first is told through the lens of a woman in her later years, the second from the perspec- tive of a teenage girl coming of age
New Neverland
Get PDFThis is a linked short story collection exploring the themes and characters of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The setting is modern day London, wherein the Lost Boys are a gang of teenage orphans, led by Peter Pan. Their rival gang is the Pirates, comprised largely of older, adult men. Peter meets Wendy, a studious middle class girl from a happy family, and starts spending much of his time with her, to the chagrin of his best friend Tink, who is wealthy but has few friends outside of Peter. This portion of the thesis ends with a Greek chorus-style musing from the mermaids. Each story treads the same general plot points, each taking on new meaning of the story (and the other characters involved) through different unique viewpoints. Following the Peter Pan stories are two other selected short stories: one about two male hustlers trying to survive in Portland, Oregon and another about the first son of the United States as he comes to terms with various relationships in his life
Jazz Dance A Derivative Genealogy: Yours/Mine
Get PDFThis thesis traces the racialized histories and gendered stereotypes of the jazz dance genre, from its inception on plantation dances through the stage performances of popular white jazz dance choreographers in America. It asks: What can a white jazz dance performer and choreographer do to acknowledge and disrupt white, male appropriations of a black vernacular form, a dynamic which has created and propagated gendered stereotypes of the form in its codification and commodification? This paper explores the ways in which I, a white performer and choreographer was exposed to jazz dance, seeking to honor the black origins of the form, while questioning heteronormative stereotypes surrounding the female body in the commodification and legitimization of the form as it moved from the jook onto the stage. This research builds on the work of Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Anthea Kraut, and Marshall and Jean Stearns, culminating in a choreographic and written work exploring ways to repurpose and subvert historical stereotypes, while tapping into the joy of movement at the basis of the genre
