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Description:: This dissertation considers how 21 trans and queer teenagers learned to create livable lives in unlivable worlds through routine participation on social media. Through a multi-year partnership with an interdisciplinary gender program in Chicago, I employed a humanizing qualitative design anchored by interview and participatory visual methods over three nested...
Keyword:: queer studies, literacy studies, elsewheres, critical digital literacies, learning sciences, and critical disability studies
Subject:: Language arts, LGBTQ studies, and Education
Creator:: Shrodes, Addie
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_917074 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16156

Description:: Although research has shown LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in counts of homeless youth, scholars have yet to investigate whether this trend exists among adults experiencing homelessness. This dissertation uses an organizational analysis of four Chicago homeless centers that cater to young adults to argue that most LGBTQ+ youth are not...
Keyword:: homelessness, governance, poverty, sexuality, young adults, and organizations
Subject:: Sociology, LGBTQ studies, and Public policy
Creator:: Lovell, Erik Stephen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_838186 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15673

Description:: Histories of digital media, software, and computing are inseparable from histories of queer and transgender life. Stored in Memory: Recovering Queer and Transgender Life in Software History situates visual media like video glitch art, the computer’s graphical user interface, video games, and computer operating systems as the product of historical...
Keyword:: Software Studies, Queer Theory, Transgender (Trans) Studies, Media Studies, Media History, and Video Game Studies
Subject:: History, LGBTQ studies, and Communication
Creator:: Pow, Whitney Kristin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_764549 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15274

Description:: This dissertation examines how China’s involvement in transnational LGBTQ activism, adaptation and innovation of queer media technologies, and the global pink economy have influenced queer men’s understandings of selfhood, sexual desires, and the relationships among queer subjects. It is based on extensive fieldwork in Beijing and digital ethnography on China’s...
Keyword:: China, Transnationalism, Sexual hierarchy, LGBTQ, Homonormative desire, and Ethnography
Subject:: LGBTQ studies, Asian studies, and Communication
Creator:: Zhou, Zhiqiu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Modified:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_773031 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15345

Description:: “Queer Correspondence: Form and Femininity in the Long Eighteenth Century” interrogates the role that the epistolary form played in the construction, representation, and discipline of female gender expressions and sexualities across the eighteenth century. Working from the perspectives of queer theory, formal analysis, and literary history, this dissertation argues that...
Keyword:: Narrative Form, Epistolary, Eighteenth Century, Queer, Femininity, and Novel
Subject:: LGBTQ studies and Literature
Creator:: Chaskin, Hannah Molly
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15262 and etdadmin_upload_764254

Description:: In Due Time: Performance and the Psychic Life of Black Debt analyzes how routine modes of debt and indebtedness restrict black women’s behavior across the everyday sphere and their subsequent engagement with both aesthetic and everyday performance to dismantle such routines. Modes of indebtedness are characteristic of racial capitalism and...
Keyword:: Gesture, Black Women, Duration & Time, Debt, Performance, and Queer
Subject:: Women's studies, LGBTQ studies, and Black studies
Creator:: De Berry, Misty
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_743674 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15117

Description:: This dissertation is a theoretically informed project that blends ethnographic and archival research methods to examine how queer and transgender performance artists deploy monstrosity as a tactic to question the terms by which LGBTQ people are granted or denied humanity in twenty-first century United States. While there is an abundance...
Keyword:: feminism, queer, transgender, monsters, body-based art, and theater
Subject:: LGBTQ studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts
Creator:: Langes, Rae A.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14523 and etdadmin_upload_639772

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