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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hlne Cixous
(2019-11-22)
Notions of identification and resemblance have been central to the onto-epistemologies of Anglo Environmental Ethics in the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to dismantle Western conceptions of the human as separate from ...
QTBIPOC Interventions in Fibromyalgic Presents: Critically Exploring Gendered, Racial and Neoliberal Regimes of Knowledge in Medical Understandings of Fibromyalgia
(2019-11-22)
This dissertation asks how fibromyalgia, a chronic illness that is admittedly unknown, unknowable, and undetectable by medical knowledge and technologies comes to be known as fibromyalgia by the medical system. By prioritizing ...
Liberation Textualities: Decoloniality, Feminism, and Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American Resistance Literature
(2019-03-05)
Liberation Textualities recognizes the connections between personal, emotional, and spiritual writing by Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American women and an expanded framework of resistance literature. I argue ...
Work It Out: Three Case Studies Examining Dance and Girls' Body Image in Early Adolescence
(2019-03-05)
For young girls, the self-disciplining of their physical bodies, both in their use and appearance, has resulted in the prevalence of body image issues. Supported by extensive literature on body image, I argue that young ...
Networks of Feeling: Affective Economies of Queer & Feminist Film Festivals on the Canadian Prairies
(2019-11-22)
Film festivals are full of feeling. As complex institutions, affective labour underpins the work of programmers and festival staff. As public events, films screened at festivals can be well-received pictures, poorly-reviewed ...
Every Inch a Queen: Reckoning with Misogyny/Reclaiming the Feminine in Shakespeare's King Lear
(2018-05-28)
This paper presents a production concept for Shakespeares King Lear, to be adapted and directed by Alistair Newton as a part of the 35th Anniversary of Canadian Stages Shakespeare in High Park presentations. The production ...
In Deeper Waters: Indigenous, Gendered Approaches to Sustainability
(2018-05-28)
This work presents a decolonizing methodology toward understanding sustainability in time and place. Methods discussed are experiential and grounded in my own positionality. Therefore, I introduce an intersectional approach, ...
Water, Air, Stones and Stains: Examining Interpersonal Aspects of Bodily Dwelling through Drawing
(2019-11-22)
How do we extend into our body and into the world? I draw to express, remember, discover, tell, record, understand, make marks, meditate, trace and draw out. Drawing is a way to articulate both dilemmas in relation to ...