#Thesis Stuff

[caesxr]

i should not be allowed to get away with this

[ask-walter-and-vince]

Flustered (animation wips)

[smolsleepyfox]

Reading interviews for my thesis and I love Matthew but either the (German) interviewers catch his tone in a weird way or he is just REALLY good at giving non-answers. Babygirl I just want to know more about your concept of the werewolf as a symbol of boundary-crossing in the religious imagery of your band.

[narrenstrich]

[repressedqueen]

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, 1990

[homulizard]

academic book i want and would be very useful is $90 without shipping, wishing all academic publishers a very Explode Now

[ignore-tenderness]

ur thesis tag is so interesting what are u writing about :0

oh thank you!!! I'm looking at riot grrrl and intersectionality through an interdisciplinary lens: I'm in a MA history program so I'm looking at the history of feminism in the 1990s in general (like the overall discourse) but also the transition from second wave feminism to third wave and how the term "intersectionality" manifested into riot grrrl as a feminist movement and if it can be referred to as such. this isn't a new topic and there are many POC scholars who have written quite extensively on it

so I'm using Python (yeah the language!) as a way to find frequently mentioned words across a selection of zines (whether created/curated by WOC or not) to determine important themes that align with intersectional feminism or overall inclusion. this will have to be supplemented by other research whether conducted by myself or research from others - but it could go the other way and be representative of the very simple narrative of how riot grrrl came to be, that leaves out a whole history of those in the punk scene that precede riot grrrl, like queercore for example

LASTLY, i love oral histories so I'll be conducting my own with WOC in their local punk scene (only focusing on southern Ontario region where it is feasible to set up interviews. also, to narrow down an already large topic) who have memories of riot grrrl (so any woman who lived through the "original" riot grrrl movement and can speak to that experience, whether they aligned with that label, liked riot grrrl-aligned music, or hated it and rejected that label) but ALSO interviewing todays generation of young women who have experienced a revival in riot grrrl or inspired by some aspects of it - i am loving the revival of zine making that is occurring where i live and in surrounding cities, so there's another layer of analysis to an already complicated topic

so to summarize:

- focusing on riot grrrl and how it is presented vs. accounts of racialized scholars who lived during whether as part of or as observer to the movement. this is being done through zine analysis and close reading of a large collection of zines

- interviewing WOC, prioritizing narratives/experiences of queer and/or trans WOC if they wish to share their stories/memories etc. my interviews will be with two separate groups: one group being WOC who experienced riot grrrl as it happened and their memories, experiences, whatever they wish to share and also their thoughts of riot grrrl as a feminist movement, the second group is to determine the impact of RG's legacy in the generations that follow and if a discernible revival in the local area exists

probably missed a ton even w this long ass response but tysm for asking! I could go on forever abt it

💗

[roosterzebra]

I just came up with the Best Lacanian pun, and now its going to be a key part of this chapter I didn't know what to do with

[lebedame-wegelagerin]

I held a celebratory Session on Discord where I had invited some Friends to witness me closing all the Tabs that had amassed over the Time I worked on my Thesis and talked about each a little. We counted them and this was the final Result:

[slonk-hill-man]

“Pol de Limbourg has alluded to the duke's propensities in this scene in an even more direct way. The handsome young cup-bearer who pours his master's wine elegantly at the far left is presented as the duke's Ganymede ± a common classical allusion to a male sex-slave for, as many poems of the medieval period describe, after being ravished by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, the boy served as Jupiter's cup-bearer by day and as his bed-partner at night. This witty allusion is also evoked by the appearance of the totally naked water-bearer in the top right of the blue, white and gold zodiacal frame above Ganymede was synonymous with the figure of Aquarius throughout the Middle Ages. 26 The `earthly' Ganymede and body-servant of the duke is highly eroticized on this page, not through nudity but through dress. Visible against the dark elegance of his robe is a clearly phallic object - similar to that which sticks out from between the legs of the duke's carver, who performs his office at the table beside the pantler. These corkscrew-like objects are not only insignia of office, they are playful emblems of youthful virile sexuality. These six beautifully dressed young men in the foreground, one of whom crosses his differently decorated legs, stand out in the foreground of the scene as `cross-dressed' in a courtly sense. Their male bodies are just as eroticized as female ones. If the February page displays to the duke the penises of his subjects, so too, in a more allusive way, do these courtly phalluses of the January page play upon the power of the penis, so crucial to the princely persona of the period.” 

- Michael Camille, “For our Devotion and Pleasure: The Sexual Objects of Jean, Duc de Berry ”

[caesxr]

i am about to serve, i fear

[drawerbread]

bury me in an unmarked grave

(aka gideon dealing with rejection aka me thinking about the fact that gideon's ultimate act of love is the ultimate act of betrayal for harrow)

details under cut!

[prideandperdition]

Almost finished. Just need to finish writing this abstract and this darn thesis is finally done.

[bacchanalianhamlet]

update on the thesis front.

supervisor prof said he's not well versed in feminist and gender theory it should be beneficial to seek someone else.

what's not making sense is I literally told him I'd be doing *gender and feminism* and he said let's see what you write. so why not just apologize then and save me the trouble?

[why-the-heck-not]

me, a responsible being, working on the coding project as I should vs. me, a dysfunctional shithead, getting distracted by reading about brains (once aGAIN damnit (it's my favorite "I need to study my field but bc I should do that it's an impossible unthinkable feat now, so I'm reading about something else to fool my brain I'm still being productive"-topic))