Theory: Becoming
A lot of my current artistic work engages with transition narratives, particularly how transition narratives are portrayed in media. This article is a good example of the kind of material I'm working...
View ArticleTheory: Allo queer/ace tension in asexual readings of history
I have to challenge previously accepted methodology around uncovering queer historical figures, as it did not account for asexuality and aromanticism. This can be particularly fraught, as it questions...
View ArticleCDA for Dance: Foundations
So, I started writing a while back on Critical Discourse Analysis and I wanted to start broadening it to look at how we can analyze dance and movement in similar ways. This is going to be a series...
View ArticleAsexual Readings of History: Behavior, Celibacy, and Feminism
All right folks, I'm back for another look into methods of uncovering asexual history. Previously, I looked at the tension between queer allo and asexual history and unpacked the need to conflate...
View ArticleCDA for Dance: Nexial connections and shoes
Ta-da! Here is a continuation of my analysis of this darn video to continue to look at how CDA methods can be applied to movement and dance with a little help from choreological structures....
View ArticleCDA for Dance: A Moment of Change
In part 3, we were looking at the nexial connections of different strands of the dance medium. In short, strands effect and interact with each other and these form connections. As a quick reminder, the...
View ArticleDocumenting the Ace Discourse: February 1-16, 2015
Two months ago, I started looking back the history of the Ace Discourse and, once again, I've mostly been hit with how slow this project is going to. I got through sixteen days worth of information...
View ArticleCDA for Dance: Action and Body
Before we get too excited, there is another model to look at. While the strands looked at the overarching elements of a performance, the structural model specifically analyzes and breaks down movement....
View ArticleDocumenting the Ace Discourse: February 16 – 28, 2015
So, this time, we'll be looking at two things - an old article I was featured in that was published late February 2015 and specific kinds of ace humor that seemed to be happening in late February 2015....
View ArticleCDA for Dance: Quality and Relationships
Tada! We have made it to the second to last installment in the very long exploration of this Lord of the Dance video. Today, we're going to look at the final ending of the piece (starting at about...
View ArticleThe Power Dynamics of Self-Help Language
Tl;dr As I start on learning to be a life coach, I am contending with how self-help language shifts responsibility away from the people in power and onto the oppressed. So, one of the adventures I’m...
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