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From Vietnam to Palestine: Transcending Solidarity Building Within Social Movements

Wed, 2 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper will analyze the linkages between student-based decolonial and anti-war movements in solidarity with Palestine and Vietnam. I will be doing a close reading analysis of the student newspaper, Third World News, which was published by students of color at UC Davis from the 1970s to early 2000s. The newspaper was created because students of color felt they weren't being represented by their university and created a platform to voice their ideas, concerns, and cultures. The newspaper allowed students to recognize their shared struggles and to spread awareness of different forms of oppression from around the world. In particular, my study will focus on the work of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), which was founded in the late 1960s when US-based non-white communities felt a strong connection between struggles of Third World peoples, and US communities of color. TWLF focused on collective action in pursuit of collective liberation and self-empowerment. This...

From Myth to Market: A Hybrid Masculinity That Incorporates Sexual Responsibility and Contraceptive Risk

Tue, 1 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

From Myth to Market: A Hybrid Masculinity That Incorporates Sexual Responsibility and Contraceptive Risk

Conversations With Strangers: Analyzing Bathroom Stall Graffiti as a Form of Queer Mentorship, Space, and Ephemera

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Public bathrooms have historically and consistently been sites of societal tension and discourse, used as symbols of isolation, discrimination, and shame for many people in marginalized communities. Whether through racial segregation in public facilities up through the Jim Crow Era (Wade, 2015, 1), or current anti-trans bathroom ban legislation that prohibits the use of gender-congruent bathrooms for trans or gender-nonconforming individuals (MAP, 2025, 1), the public bathroom remains at the center of many racist, transphobic, and colonial discourses. It has been socialized as a space that enforces colonial systems of oppression, such as gender and race binaries, allowing others the privacy needed to enact violence against these marginalized communities. With this context, it is imperative to recognize forms of resistance and resilience within these spaces, such as bathroom stall graffiti. In my research, I will analyze bathroom stall graffiti found in the first-floor women’s...