Author: Jackson Schneider

As someone who really loves film, I really enjoyed revisiting Paris is Burning for this course. If I were in charge of creating a new syllabus for the next time this course is taught, I would probably add what is probably my favorite movie of all time, Persona (1966). It is Ingmar Bergman’s most significant… Continue reading Journal 11 – Jackson Schneider

I have chosen the key-word pinkwashing. DEFINITION: I think it means the use of queer aesthetics or the appearance of LGBTQ acceptance to either promote a product or company or to distract from the harmful practices of that entity. PURPOSE: I intend to create an op-ed. An example of this format is Sarah Schulman’s 2011 op-ed on pinkwashing in… Continue reading Journal 10 – Jackson Schneider

For my final project on pinkwashing, I am thinking of presenting my material in the form of an op-ed. My target audience will be the people who are most susceptible to pinkwashing: educated liberal allies to the LGBT community. Many straight coastal elites are unable to distinguish between genuine support and pinkwashing as a smokescreen… Continue reading Journal 9 – Jackson Schneider

Yesterday, I got to take photos at the beabadoobee and Lowertown concert in Atlanta for the Emory Wheel. It was my first time photographing a live event since COVID began, and I forgot how much I love it. I was really proud of my finished products, and I got to go to a great concert… Continue reading Journal 7 – Jackson Schneider

TEXT CHOSEN: I have chosen the film Funeral Parade of Roses to close-read for my midterm. DESCRIPTION/SUMMARY:  Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese art-house film about a trans sex-worker named Eddy and her ascent through the ranks of the queer underbelly of ’60s Tokyo. It is a loose retelling of the ancient Greek… Continue reading Prompt 5 – Jackson Schneider

Giorgia Meloni is Extreme, but She’s No Tyrant This opinion piece by Mattia Ferraresi ran in the New York Times on September 26th. In it, Ferraresi makes the case that while Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni may be ideologically descended from Mussolini’s party, she is not a fascist dictator aiming to seize total control… Continue reading Reading Journal 4 – Jackson Schneider

Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is one of the most iconic Country songs of all time, and it’s precisely the deviations that Dolly makes from her genre that have catapulted the track to legendary status. Sonically, the track sounds like standard country fare, albeit with a catchy acoustic groove. Dolly’s lyricism and her storytelling ability set “Jolene”… Continue reading Jackson Schneider – Journal 3

The problem with the analysis of drag as only misogyny is, of course, that it figures male-to-female transsexuality, cross-dressing, and drag as male homosexual activities – which they are not always – and it further diagnises male homosexuality as rooted in misogyny. The feminist analysis this makes male homosexuality about women, and one might argue… Continue reading Journal 2 – Jackson Schneider

Writing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mother is a poet, and so I grew up surrounded by her strewn-around notebooks and with a sense that writing can be an expression of identity. It has always been my strong suit academically, and I’ve found that the… Continue reading Jackson Schneider