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Oral History Interview with Jay Botsford, May 26, 2011
No full textJay Botsford (b. 1982) identifies as genderqueer and trans. Botsford describes zir experiences coming out and transitioning, and zir role as coordinator of Project Q, the youth development program of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. Zie discusses the murder of Dana A. "Chanel" Larkin, a young transgender woman of color, and the issues facing trans and gender nonconforming youth in Milwaukee. Botsford underscores the benefits of greater intergenerational interaction among trans people, and criticizes the unexamined social privilege of white and middle-class individuals in the trans population.Milwaukee Transgender Oral History Project
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jay Botsford
Interviewed by Brice Smith
May 26, 2011 at Botsford’s home
Transcribed by Nicholas Roche
Copyright © 2011 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All rights reserved.
Brice Smith – BS
Jay Botsford – JS
BS: Will you please introduce yourself.
JS: Sure. My name is Jay Botsford. Not sure what else you want as an introduction, actually.
BS: That is fine; that is good. And thank you very much for participating in the Milwaukee
Transgender Oral History Project. For starters, what are your preferred gender pronouns?
JB: The pronouns that I prefer to use are “zie,” “zir” and “zirs.”
BS: Okay.
JB: So z-i-e, z-i-r and z-i-r-s.
BS: So you prefer the gender neutral pronouns.
JB: That particular set of gender neutral pronouns is really my preference. I think that. I was
using “Sie” “hir” and “hirs” for a while and I think that to
Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Analysis and Social Media
No full textPublished as:
Ali E. Abbas, Jay Simon, Chris Smith (2017) Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Analysis and Social Media. Decision
Analysis 14(4):227-228. https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2017.036
An Apology for Philosophy
No full textJay L. Garfield defends the practice of philosophy as a political and aesthetic enterprise
Jay Smith READ Poster
No full textJay Smith, Associate Director of Admission, class of 2002, reading East of Eden, by John Steinbeck.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/libraries_read/1029/thumbnail.jp
A. Jay Smith
No full textBlack and white photograph of A. Jay Smith, CPA and managing partner of the Salt Lake office of Ernst and Whinney
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
A. Jay Smith
No full textBlack and white photograph of A. Jay Smith, accountant with the Salt Lake office of Ernst and Whinney, speaking at an event connected with the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
American dreamin\u27 : critical perspectives on race and Black capitalism in Jay-Z\u27s 4:44
No full textJames Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time (1963) and Jay-Z’s 13th studio album 4:44 (2017) could not be more different in content and form. Yet, when listening to the album for the first time, I was reminded of the way Baldwin positions himself as an “Uncle” speaking to his younger nephew about the social world that he would come to encounter, and negotiate the terms of his identity in. What the two cultural products share is an authoritative black male voice, and a complex rendering of black male subjectivity, from the perspectives of cultural actors who can attest to having survived uniquely heinous conditions, to which many profound figures were lost. Baldwin reflects on the virulent race relations of the 1960s, conditions of the urban “ghetto,” and questions the fate of a nation that refuses to reconcile its history. Jay-Z, who came of age at the height of the crack epidemic and War on Drugs, depicts capitalism and economic exploitation as key to African American subjugation. Jay-Z’s early life is characterized by sociological conditions meant to relegate him to the ghetto for his life: emerging system of mass incarceration; fatal turf wars waged among drug-dealers; black social and political fragmentation; and dire poverty. Jay-Z’s 4:44 is striking because it offers a rare and poetic account of a black man who successfully escaped America’s undercaste, into extreme wealth and privilege. Thus, what is most striking about Jay-Z’s 4:44, is his ability to do “the impossible” by navigating the music industry with autonomy and prowess and he living to tell the story.
Furthermore, 4:44 represents a continuity in black cultural production that is resonant and identifiable. The album falls into the tradition of “race music,” musical expressions that articulate African American social experience. Throughout the album, Jay-Z examines race and capitalism in America today, drawing on African American history and theories of black political economy to articulate the ways in which the contagion of racism, and legacy of slavery, seeps into everyday black experience. He gestures to economic exploitation as a severe factor contributing to the plight of African Americans and draws upon the legacy of black political and nationalist figures like Marcus Garvey in his own version of racial uplift ideology through black capitalism.
This album demonstrates how hip-hop performances can both effectively resist or intensify black subjugation. To listen to 4:44 is to enter a world of black male complexity, shaped by the reorganizing effects of economic social class mobility for an African American man once confined to America’s inner cities. It articulates the experiences of an oppressed community and is comprised of various rhetorical tools that protest and name and resist the ongoing racial oppression and economic exploitation of African Americans today. Thus, this project leans into an interrogation of the various themes that emerge in the album, specifically focusing on Jay-Z’s critical perspectives on race, (black) capitalism, and masculinity. I draw on various parts of his discography and biography to unveil the fallacies rooted in some of his arguments, and the revelatory nature of his artistic renditions
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Marriage record of Smith, Frank E. and Jay, Kate E.
No full textMarriage license for Frank E. Smith and Kate E. Jay. S.D. Colyer was the officiant
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