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One meme that I could close-read is the “distracted boyfriend” meme, which features a stock photo of a man looking at another woman while his girlfriend looks on in disbelief. The meme often uses the photo to make humorous or satirical observations about different situations or scenarios. One possible way of close-reading this meme would… Continue reading Journal 12 – Jingxuan Zhang

One afternoon, while watching TV with Lan, we saw a herd of buffalo run, single file, off a cliff, a whole steaming row of them thundering off the mountain. “Why they die themselves like that?” she asked, mouth open. Like usual, I made something up on the spot: “They don’t mean to, Grandma. They’re just… Continue reading Journal 13 – Jingxuan Zhang

Queer reading is a way of interpreting texts that goes beyond traditional, heteronormative assumptions and perspectives. It involves looking at texts from a queer perspective, which means examining how the text relates to and represents LGBTQ+ experiences, identities, and issues. This can involve analyzing the representation of queer characters and themes, as well as the… Continue reading Journal 14 – Jingxuan Zhang

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

Prior to this semester, I thought of reading as exclusively text-based. I understood that text could suggest images, metaphor, and other sensory experiences, but I primarily thought of words on a page. I now understand that anything that transmits ideas can be read. Reading is more of an analysis than comprehension. Queerness can be read… Continue reading Reading Journal 14 – Gabrielle Stearns

I am very interested in journalism, so I would have like to read and analyze more news articles and broadcasts. We did this a little bit when we looked at headlines, but I would have loved a deeper dive. I read a New York Times article a few weeks ago about three different trans adolescents… Continue reading Reading Journal 11 – Gabrielle Stearns

I have chosen the word “body” My definition – the physical form of humans and animals or an adjective describing the main bulk of an entity, such as a body of text. I plan on making a powerpoint where text is side-by-side with videos of me dancing. I have never seen something in this exact… Continue reading Reading Journal 10 – Gabrielle Stearns

My midterm essay was about a section from the end of Small Beauty. The most difficult part of reading this novel for me was following the confusing timeline, but it was also the literary tool that I found made the novel the most interesting. I focused my paper on how the past interacted with the… Continue reading Reading Journal 8 – Gabrielle Stearns