{"id":435,"date":"2020-06-23T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/?p=435"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:24:08","slug":"student-spotlights-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/2020\/06\/23\/student-spotlights-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlights &#8211; May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured here in our Student Spotlight are some sensational culminating projects from Dr. Pascale LaFountain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/coursesaz\/glqs\/\">&#8220;Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies&#8221;<\/a> class in Spring &#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Corcoran<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2020\/05\/C.Corcoran_FINAL_DigitalStory_v2.pdf\">&#8220;My View. A Contextual Queer History&#8221;<\/a> [from the 80s to the present]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nina Farley<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2020\/05\/Final-Project-The-Young-Lesbians-Guide-to-Coming-In-Final-Project-Nina-Farley-GLQS100.pdf\">&#8220;The Lesbian Scrapbook I Never Had&#8221;<\/a> [emulating 70s lesbian collective creativity]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Kurkowiak<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2020\/05\/Kurkowiak-Draw-My-Life_-The-Journey-Thus-Far-2.pdf\">&#8220;Draw My Life: The Journey Thus Far&#8221;<\/a> [consideration of asexuality in cultural-autobiographical context] Graphic Novel-Style with original illustrations!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meredith Lynch<\/strong> &#8211; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHfoDt16Nuo\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Schadenfreude&#8221;<\/a> [original music composition based on Freud&#8217;s 5 stages of psychosexual development] From Meredith&#8217;s Artist&#8217;s statement: &#8220;This explores how the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Richard von Krafft-Ebing apply to the modern young woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sabrina Wigfall<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2020\/05\/Lonely-Midnight.pdf\">&#8220;Splintered Beauties: Lonely Midnight&#8221;<\/a> [original novella dealing with intersectionality and black lesbian identities] Sabrina is a creative writing major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured here in our Student Spotlight are some sensational culminating projects from Dr. Pascale LaFountain&#8217;s &#8220;Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies&#8221; class in Spring &#8217;20. 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