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by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
A Jihad for Love, Parvez Shama, First Run Features, Sep 2007, 81 minutes Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/ American(ized) Whore Nadine Naber Feminist Studies Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 87-111 Out of the Closet: Representation of Homosexauls and...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
I question my initial read of the figures as cis-women because I wonder what social constructions dictate this gendered read of them: the veil. I wonder how this piece of clothing became the statement for their identities. Judith Butler’s work around sex as a social...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Homonationalism is a term that adds a critical queer perspective to Orientalism. Orientalism looks at the ways that the West dominates the ‘Orient” through academia, culture, and colonialism, while, Homonationalism “unlike Orientalism, speaks particularly to the way...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The viewer of Lalla Essaydi’s works approaches these subjects from zir[1] own cultural and lived position and perspective, contingent upon individual circumstances including class, race, sexual orientation, and national status. From my perspective as a white, queer,...
by brooksst | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Marco #1 exemplifies the historical play and interrogative approach she takes towards Orientalism. This photography strongly resembles Eugéne Delacroix’s Algerian Women in Their Apartment from 1834 with a similar arrangement of female figures...
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