In Audre’s Footsteps: Feel the Love

First and foremost, thank you sincerely to Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, Judy Lynne Fisher (Fall 2017 #FemGeniusesinBerlin and 2022 Course Associate), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (2015 #FemGeniusesinBerlin Course Associate), Dr. Rosemarie Peña, and Elisa Diallo for their beautiful, powerful blurbs of the book! Your support and encouragement has meant everything! My amazing students sent me the […]

The Un-American “Other”

The Feminist and Gender Studies Department presents “The Un-American ‘Other’” with Malone DeYoung and Susanna Penfield on Wednesday November 6, 2019 from 4-5 at Sacred Grounds.   Throughout history, the United States government has constructed human rights issues in ways that uphold American nationalism. By creating enemies out of non-US citizens, administrations justify violent action against those deemed “outsiders.” […]

Meghan Trainor’s in Treble: A Critique of Body Positivity in “All about That Bass”

For their final project in FG212/RM200/FM206 Critical Media Studies (Block 4 2018), Amy Bolton, Malone DeYoung, Ryan Etzwiler, Zander Jobin-Leeds, and Justine Miller critiqued print and audiovisual media representing Meghan Trainor’s “All about that Bass.” For the new media creation portion of their project, they created a new poster and music video. Scroll to the bottom […]