Tactical Staging: Evolving Methods of Feminist Activism in Susan Glaspell’s Work
In the marketplace of ideas, the Theatre Arts employ narrative stories and eye-catching visual art pieces draw listeners and viewers in a way that is unmatched by other methods. Art not only reflects...
View ArticleReforming Community Structures: The Public Library's Impact on the Midwestern...
Public libraries, though increasingly overlooked, are pivotal spaces for Midwestern communities. Public libraries are fundamental institutions for those in their community and have consistently...
View ArticleChanging Roles of Women Reflected in the Cozy Mysteries of Charlotte Murray...
While critics have often assumed that cozy mysteries are detached from the real world, the case of Charlotte Murray Russell shows that her novels are actually an insightful reflection into how women...
View ArticleSocial Commentary in Charlotte Murray Russell's The Message of the Mute Dog
This paper analyzes how Charlotte Murray Russell's cozy mystery The Message of the Mute Dog supports patriotism while criticizing anti-German sentiment during World War II.
View ArticleThe Stark Surrealism in Spectra’s Soulfulness
Arthur Davison Ficke and Witter Bynner were American poetry's first Surrealists, preceding Breton and his founding of Surrealism, with the publication of its first manifesto, in France in 1924. Though...
View ArticleAnalysis and Description of the Iridescent Film on Calcites in Eastern Iowa
During the Devonian Period, eastern to central Iowa experienced multiple transgressive and regressive intervals. This study focuses on the Cou Falls and Gizzard Creek Members of the Coralville...
View ArticleI Will Make No Defense
I Will Make No Defense is a combination of a short essay and a free-form poetry chapbook with a glossary of anattractional terms*. The essay discusses the erasure of complex queer identities within...
View ArticleThe Queer Holocaust
Everyone knows that in Weimar Germany, Adolf Hitler's main target was the Jewish population, however, there were other oppressed groups who faced his wrath as well. Queer folks during this time also...
View ArticleThe Cycle of Control: How Men Convince Women to Doubt Their Minds and Bodies
In ultra-conservative religious communities, men in positions of power will often use tactics that cause women to doubt their thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Women are gaslighted into believing they...
View ArticleAI Ethics: Education
The usage of AI is problematic for the history of many races. Without any regulations what is stopping many from creating false history and potraying it as true. With an increase usage of AI from...
View ArticleStop Looking Away: On The Zone of Interest and Palestine
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is a radical interrogation of complicity, silence, and the carefully curated distance that enables atrocity to unfold in full view. Through a cinematic language...
View ArticleA Cultural Patchwork
Quilting is an artform that has gone through many changes from utilitarian blankets made from scraps designed to keep a family warm, to artistic masterpieces pushing the boundaries of what can be...
View ArticleLos Muxes de Juchitán: Resistance, Identity, and Expressions of Gender in the...
This work is a cultural analysis of the Indigenous Zapotec third-gender community in Juchitán, México called the muxes. It examines the historical context that explains how the muxes have survived the...
View ArticleRationing Hunger: The Gendered Consequences of India's Public Distribution...
This paper examines how the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, while introduced to address hunger and food insecurity, displaces women from traditional farming, weakens their nutritional...
View ArticleAccess to Augustana’s Ascension Chapel: Who Gets to Worship?
This poster seeks to educate readers about the challenges disabled students would face in attending a service in Augustana College’s Ascension Chapel and how inaccessible this actually is using maps...
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