Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2023.2165852
Riana Slyter
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2147676
Diana Leon-Boys, Claudia Bucciferro
Abstract This article examines a recent mediated version of Latina girlhood, the teenage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) genius, through an analysis of a Netflix original series: Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (2020). The series offers a representation of girlhood that does not fully align with either the “at-risk” or the “can-do” girls that have appeared previously on television. By conducting a qualitative analysis that highlights key episodes, we interrogate the layered representation of Latina girlhood offered in the show, focusing on two aspects: how the title character, Ashley, appears as a particular embodiment of a contemporary Latina teenager, and how she is narratively positioned in the story line. Our findings suggest that the series showcases a complex albeit ambiguous and ambivalent representation of Latina girlhood. This portrayal is exaggerated and fantastic and ultimately falls back on common tropes found in teen-oriented television.
本文通过对Netflix原创剧集《Ashley Garcia: genius in Love》(2020)的分析，研究了最近的拉丁女孩时代，即青少年科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)天才。这个系列提供了一个少女时代的代表，与之前在电视上出现的“危险”或“能干”女孩不完全一致。通过对关键剧集进行定性分析，我们探究了剧中拉美裔少女时代的分层表现，重点关注两个方面:标题角色阿什利(Ashley)是如何作为当代拉美裔少女的具体体现出现的，以及她在故事情节中的叙事定位。我们的研究结果表明，该系列展示了一个复杂的，尽管模棱两可和矛盾的拉丁女孩的代表性。这种描述是夸张的、梦幻的，最终回到了青少年电视节目中常见的比喻。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2156418
Lore/tta LeMaster, Alaina C. Zanin, Lucy C. Niess, Haley Lucero
Abstract This study explores ways trans and gender-nonconforming athletes navigate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our research reveals dialectic movements between feelings of inclusion/exclusion juxtaposed with the structural being of inclusion/exclusion. More specifically, the feeling of inclusion/exclusion gestures to individual sensed experiences of (un)belonging, while the being of inclusion/exclusion anchors a participant’s individual affective experience navigating binarism vis-à-vis administrative constraints. Taken together, two dialectics—feeling included ↔ being excluded and its dialectic reversal feeling excluded ↔ being included—communicatively constitute what we theorize as “trans relational ambivalences,” which mediate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our findings implicate settler modes of relating across gender difference, revealing a problem of modernity. Specifically, we reveal a problem in which settler coloniality’s ontological foreclosure on multiplicities produce the communicative effect of individuation. In this regard, our analysis holds inclusion in dialectic tension with exclusion such that the affective experience of one cannot be understood without the structural enactment of the other.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2147616
S. Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Abstract This article explores how reproductive justice (RJ) doulas support trans and nonbinary birthing people, while advancing more inclusive practices within the birth world. We begin by tracing historical changes in mainstream birth and pregnancy care to highlight how biological naturalism and woman-centered discourse became ingrained. Then, we analyze primary data, such as participant observations at doula trainings, interviews with RJ doulas, and training materials for birthworkers, to illuminate how RJ doulas mobilize RJ principles to provide gender-affirming advocacy and inclusive care to pregnant and birthing people of all genders. Key rhetorical strategies include (1) advocacy, (2) radical inclusion, and (3) self-reflexivity. Thus, our study extends existing feminist rhetorical scholarship on gender essentialism in popular pregnancy and childbirth discourse, expands scholarship on obstetric violence and marginalization of nonnormative birthing people, and explores rhetorical possibilities for redress.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135900
Lily Kunda
When I became interested in Black love as a topic of research, I was going through my own romantic strife. I first struggled to articulate how researching Black love was significant beyond the scope of my own life. In observing representations of Black couples in television, film, and more recently via social media hashtags like #BlackLove and #CoupleGoals, it became clear that the representations I consume help construct my desires. When I read bell hooks’s (2001) Salvation: Black People and Love, it helped me come to terms with my own romantic needs in a critical way. I realized that wanting love as a Black woman is a cultural issue that is complicated by many political and historical factors. In Salvation, hooks urges scholars to be more attentive to the way love works as a form of social justice in the lives of Black folks. Through hooks, I was able to take a closer look at how gender roles function (and at times cause dysfunction) in my personal relationships, as well as in how I read media texts. hooks taught me not to be ashamed for wanting love, wanting to research love, or for enjoying watching Black love in media. Because the love we see in popular culture is a significant part of our lives, I turn here to one of my more complicated favorites. In June 2022, the hit television sitcom Martin (1992–1997) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special on BETþ. In the special, cast members came together to discuss the legacy of the show, its impact on Black culture, and rumors about a potential reboot. One of the major impacts discussed in relation to the show is the representation of Black love between the main characters, Gina and Martin, played by Tisha Campbell and Martin Lawrence, respectively. As I reflect on the show, its legacy, and the way Martin and Gina have been held up as #couplegoals in the Black imagination, I can’t help but reflect on how bell hooks’s work on Black love and feminism have influenced how and why I watch couples like Martin and Gina on TV. In Salvation, bell hooks explores multiple expressions of Black love and romantic relationships as they relate to race, whiteness, and patriarchy. She details how slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and systemic racism influence how Black people have been able to express and experience love. hooks also considers the connection between representations of romantic love on screen and how love manifests in the lives of Black
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135905
Courtney M. Cox
Over coffee with a friend recently, we compared notes on how graduate students currently engage with cultural studies literature and popular media in seminar courses. He shared a particularly challenging discussion on the politics of representation, where Beyonc e became a key example. One student immediately responded, “Beyonc e is offlimits!” I remember laughing in the moment as I considered how students in my courses also felt protective of their favorite subjects of fandom. Conversely, I am also intimately aware of how easily the classroom becomes a space where “everything is trash” or irredeemable in the supposed service of intellectual inquiry. I later reflected on that conversation and considered how bell hooks might have responded to that student’s exclamation. Given hooks’s own dissection of the pop culture icon, I doubt anyone would have left the classroom seeing ’Yonc e the same way. I first thought of hooks’s piece in The Guardian where she considers how Beyonc e’s album Lemonade “offers viewers a visual extravaganza—a display of black female bodies that transgresses all boundaries. It’s all about the body, and the body as commodity. This is certainly not radical or revolutionary. From slavery to the present day, black female bodies, clothed and unclothed, have been bought and sold” (hooks, 2016, para. 5). Here, the “visual extravaganza” hooks describes breaks boundaries yet replicates the historical commodification of Black female flesh. This, she argues, dilutes the revolutionary potential of the work. Later in the article, hooks describes how the visual album “[constructs] a powerfully symbolic black female sisterhood that resists invisibility, that refuses to be silent. This in and of itself is no small feat—it shifts the gaze of white mainstream culture. It challenges us all to look anew, to radically revision how we see the black female body” (hooks, 2016, para. 8). Gazing. Looking. Seeing. Revisioning. Even as she laments the limits of representation in Lemonade, hooks acknowledges the uneasy task of choosing to be seen, of moving beyond a mere glance or oppressive gaze. This, perhaps, is the greatest gift bestowed upon communication scholars who engage with hooks’s body of work: learning to look. She consistently avoided flattened interpretations and leaned into the complications of what she saw across various platforms. Developing an oppositional gaze, she argues,
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2136895
Tarishi Verma
Abstract Shame is one of the feelings most commonly associated with sexual assault—whether it is shame felt by those who know the survivor or the shame the survivor often feels. The #MeToo movement allowed many survivors to confront this shame and recount their experiences on social media. In the same vein, the 2017 List of Sexual Harassers in Academia (LoSHA) set out to expose incidents of sexual assault within Indian academia. When the list came out, however, some discussions focused less on survivors’ experiences of shame and more on the potential shaming of the accused, leading to descriptions of the list as a “campaign to name and shame.” In this context, the word shame itself was associated with the perpetrator. This article looks at what associations of shame with sexual assault might mean in the era of social media movements and what it might mean for the word shame to be associated with perpetrators, critically or even defensively.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135913
Sarah J. Jackson
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2136885
R. Gajjala, Swati Kamble, Maitraye Basu, Vijeta Kumar, Ololade Faniyi
are the result of people being cautious, carefully and earnestly planning approaches to thinking differently,
是人们谨慎、仔细、认真地规划不同思维方式的结果，
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2022.2135948
Sujatha Subramanian, Riddhima Sharma
Abstract This article attempts to understand how ideas of justice are conceptualized within social media discourses around gender and sexual violence in India through an intersectional analysis of two case studies: the case of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian and the List of Sexual Harassers in Academia, or LoSHA, which generated many conversations on sexual violence and justice on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. While a cursory reading of these two social media responses might see both as a rejection of due process and as seeking justice outside the structures of the judicial system, we argue that a closer reading of both is necessary to understand the different contours that these calls for justice have taken. In addition, we study how these two different social media conversations on sexual violence have centered the victim/survivor of sexual violence differently to understand how they engage with carcerality and anti-carceral politics. We conclude by attempting a definition of transformative justice based on anti-caste feminist interventions on social media, specifically drawing on the work of Dalit feminists, including those who created LoSHA.
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