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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Student Spotlights – May 2020

Posted in: Student Feature of the Month

Collage of Nina Farley's project

Featured here in our Student Spotlight are some sensational culminating projects from Dr. Pascale LaFountain’s “Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies” class in Spring ’20. Students in this class explore discourses, cultures, and histories that are foundational to LGBTQ+ studies and consider the powerful intersections between LGBTQ+ identities and race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomics, and more. The projects showcased here are exemplary for how they take up these complex factors!

Colin Corcoran“My View. A Contextual Queer History” [from the 80s to the present]

Nina Farley“The Lesbian Scrapbook I Never Had” [emulating 70s lesbian collective creativity]

Mary Kurkowiak“Draw My Life: The Journey Thus Far” [consideration of asexuality in cultural-autobiographical context] Graphic Novel-Style with original illustrations!

Meredith Lynch“Schadenfreude” [original music composition based on Freud’s 5 stages of psychosexual development] From Meredith’s Artist’s statement: “This explores how the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Richard von Krafft-Ebing apply to the modern young woman.”

Sabrina Wigfall“Splintered Beauties: Lonely Midnight” [original novella dealing with intersectionality and black lesbian identities] Sabrina is a creative writing major.