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SIKESTON - O.D. Clayton and family are now residing at 120 Maplewood Drive, property they recently purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Boyer.
CHARLESTON - W. Clifton Banta, attorney for the R-1 Board of Education, reported that at no time prior to March 8, 1966, was there "any inkling" from the board's bond attorneys that there was anything wrong with a bond issue voted March 2, 1965.
SIKESTON - Amy Riley, daughter of Judy Riley of Lilbourn, earned alternate status at the regional Spelling Bee conducted Saturday in Sikeston. Valerie Holland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Holland of Cape Girardeau won the contest. The winning words were synopsis and opulent.
SIKESTON - While most trees are beginning to flower or bud in the area, a tree in the yard of Angie Johansson, 7353 Goodhope St., has a totally different look. Four young girls, Rachael Brinkmeyer, 3, Lea Walters, 8, Sarah Walters, 10 and Amy Pitts, 7, decorated the tree for Easter. The girls dressed the tree with an inflatable Easter bunny and taped plastic Easter eggs to the limbs.
SIKESTON - Sikeston Vocational School students refurbished the Semo Shrine Club's trailer, which is used to carry the Shrine clown bus to parades and special events.
DEXTER - An assault is under investigation by Dexter Police. At 1:26 a.m. Saturday, one person was taken to the Dexter Hospital for treatment of injuries. According to the police, the victim was assaulted with a cue stick during a disturbance at Sonny's Tavern. No complaints were signed over the incident. Also under investigation is a theft from a vehicle parked at Jerry Willis Auto Sales. A 12-inch gas powered Homelite chainsaw, two camouflage hunting suits and an Ameritech Motorola cellular flip phone were taken.


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Current Graduate Students
Jenna Basiliere
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2008 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2006 Wells College (Womens Studies Minor: English)
MA 2008 - SUNY at Buffalo (American Studies)
Jenna Basiliere holds a BA in Women's Studies from Wells College (2006) and an MA in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2008). Current research interests include: the inclusion and exclusion of the transgender body in feminist and queer theory, the role of the feminist 'sex wars' in shaping current discussions around sex and sexuality, popular culture treatments of GLBT bodies, drag king culture, and cinematic biography as a narrative of transgender identity. In the past I have taught courses in introductory women's/gender studies, cultural formations of sexuality, and feminist theory.
Areas of Interest:
sex workers and labor, consumption culture, queer theory
- Basiliere, Jenna (2009). "Political Is Personal: Scholarly Manifestations of the Feminist Sex Wars," Michigan Feminist Studies 22(1): 1-26.
Lindsey Breitwieser
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2012 Cohort
Medicine, Science, and Technologies of the Body
BA 2012 - College of Charleston (Biology and Women's and Gender Studies)
Areas of Interest:
Lindsey's research and academic interests lie within the fields of feminist science and technology studies, critical weight studies, and disability studies. In particular, she examines the gendered and disabled dimensions of death, dying, and self-harm from a new feminist materialist stance. Past projects emphasize the reevaluation of treatment ethics involved with inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa; theorizing suicide's politically productive potential; and the gendered, raced, and disabled discursive productions in neurological, psychological, and physiological scientific publications linking anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorder.
Melinda Brennan
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2010 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
MA 2009 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Sociology/Women's Studies)
BA 2007 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Women's Studies/Sociology/LGBT)
Melinda Brennan is a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellow (2015- 2016), and PhD candidate in Gender Studies. She has remained invested in social justice throughout her education, focusing on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nationality. During her MA, she investigated LGBTQ Muslim social movements in North America and the varied strategies for group formation, maintenance, and (dis)inclusion. Her dissertation investigates the process of racialization that constitutes Islamophobia, through constructions of Muslim as an ethno-religious category against the fraught racial category white. She argues that gender and sexuality, in mainstream media representations of Muslim life, activate pervasive affective reactions that borrow from a history of racism within the U.S. Contemporary incarnations of Islamophobia replay and renew cultural anxieties about ethnic minorities, anti-immigrant sentiment and the position of women in the U.S. Her archive decenters 9/11, focusing on reality television, news, documentary, film, and serialized television dramas from the 1970s forward. She has taught courses on transnational social movements and diasporic sexualities, the politics of multiply minoritized embodiments, and feminist theories of the body and popular culture.
Areas of Interest:
racialized & gendered embodiment; Islamophobia & Orientalism; critical race theory; women of color feminisms; transnational sexualities; diaspora & postcolonial theories; (im)materiality, affect, & post-humanism; social movements; geographies of risk.
Courses Taught:
- Queer Migrations
- Pretty Girls: Constructions of Beauty and Monstrosity
- Dangerous Women: Sex, Politics, and the Body
- Gender, Culture and Society
Selected Awards:
- 2015 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- 2014 Alexander M. Doty Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University
- 2014 Presidents Diversity Doctoral Scholars Program Dissertation Award
Southern Regional Education Board, Institute on Teaching & Mentoring
- 2014 Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship
Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs
Indiana University
- 2014 Graduate Student Travel Grant
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity Studies, Indiana University
- 2014 Women of Color Leadership Project participant
National Womens Studies Association
- 2013 Barbra C. Gray Teaching Award
Gender Studies, Indiana University
Professional Memberships:
National Womens Studies Association (NWSA)
Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
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LaNita Gregory Campbell
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2010 Cohort
Medicine, Science, and Technologies of the Body
BA 2008 - University of Southern California (Spanish, Gender Studies)
MA 2008 - Indiana University (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
A Los Angeles native, LaNita received her undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Gender studies from the University of Southern California in 2008. Working as a youth sex and health educator in L.A. and traveling through South America during her undergraduate career only cemented her passion for conducting transnational work focused on public health and gender/race disparities in healthcare. She worked on her M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from 2008-2010 at Indiana University focusing on the racialization of HIV/AIDS in US Latino communities and the social construction of infectious diseases. She is interested in producing practical and applicable scholarly work that looks at how medicine, gender, sexuality, and race intersect.
Areas of Interest:
public health, medicalization of gendered bodies, politics of HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights, contraceptive technologies, representations of STDs in visual media
Krystal Cleary
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2011 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2009- Wells College (Women's Studies; minor in Sociology)
MA 2011- University of Cincinnati (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Krystal Cleary holds a BA summa cum laude from Wells College in Women's Studies (2009) and a MA in from the University of Cincinnati in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2011).
Areas of Interest:
Krystal's research emerges as the intersection of disability studies, pop culture studies, and feminist and queer theory. Her current work focuses on freak discourse and representations of the disabled body in popular culture, primarily reality television.
Jiling Duan
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2015 Cohort
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China (2010) M.A. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (2007) B.A. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and English Language/Literature
Areas of Interest:
As a feminist activist and a former editor and journalist, it is my long-term goal to promote gender equality in China through combining rigorous academic research on gender issues in China with advocating, mentoring, and facilitating Chinese feminist movements.. My work with the new media brought my attention to incessant negative labels attached to women like "left over women" and "green tea bitch". However, there was a special label called "corruption combating mistresses", referring to those mistresses who revealed to the general public their affairs with married government officials and, as an unintended consequence, they also brought to light those officials' corruption record. Mistresses have long been stigmatized and condemned publicly in China. In an interesting twist, once they denounced the corrupted officials publicly, people began to call them "anti-corruption heroines". This twist inspired me to explore how women and women's body were used and disciplined through labels. Such labels, when put together, could reveal a variety of underlying gender norms and discriminations against women: How and why the drastic shift of mistresses' image occurred? What are the social and cultural mechanisms behind the production of those labels? What are the roles that the state, globalization, and neoliberalism each play in it? In answering these broad questions, I plan to conduct a qualitative study to explore the sexist representation of women in China's media, and what the production mechanisms of negative labels attached to these women are. I situate these questions within the larger context of neoliberalism and globalization. I intend to conduct ambitious research projects that bring theoretical sensitivities to gender studies in China and benefit Chinese feminist movements.
Sasha Goldberg
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2013 Cohort
Daniela Gutiérrez López
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2014 Cohort
M.A. 2014 - Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Women's and Gender Studies)
B.A. 2012 - Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (Literature)
Areas of Interest:
Daniela's MA thesis, titled "The Displays, Silences, and Aesthetic Possibilities of Museum Fashion's Gendered Geopolitics," inquired the gendered, racialized, and classed, neocolonial institutional performance of art museums, by studying fashion exhibitions in New York City (2013). During her doctoral program in Gender Studies at IU, she intends to continue her work on affect and post/neocolonial theories as tools for understanding the ways aesthetic practices, popular culture and mass market media represent/construct/organize/subvert individual and collective subjectivities.
Jessica Hille
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2013 Cohort
J.D. Washington University
L.L.M. Health Law & Policy, University of Washington - Seattle
B.A. Political Science, University of Chicago
Jessica earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, and an LLM in Health Law & Policy from the University of Washington - Seattle. In law school, she co-taught the seminar "Women and the Law" for undergraduates. Her legal activism focused on reproductive justice and LGBT/queer sexuality and family law issues.
Areas of Interest:
Current research interests include asexuality, sex education, and queering the concept of intimacy.
Heather Montes Ireland
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2011 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2007 – California State University (Women's Studies)
MA 2011 – Oregon State University (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Concerned with problems relevant to economic justice, Heather Montes Ireland's dissertation research examines poverty reduction discourses and the politics of microfinance to contend with the gendered, racialized, and sexualized configurations of U.S. economic policy. A Ronald E. McNair Scholar at Cal State University Long Beach, Heather joined the IU PhD program in Gender Studies as a McNair Graduate Fellow. Committed to advocating for first generation, LGBTQ, and students of color, Montes Ireland was selected as a Graduate Mentor for the IU McNair Scholars Program, and served as an Associate Instructor with the Student Academic Center/GROUPS Summer Experience. Heather has taught G205 Money, Sex, and the Economy; G104 Women and Gender Worldwide; and G101 Gender, Culture, and Society at IU.
Areas of Interest:
Economic justice and political economy; queer Latin@ studies; critical race theory and critical mixed race studies; U.S. women of color and transnational feminisms.
Betsy Jose
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2007 Cohort
Cultural Representations and Media Practices
BA 1993 - Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi (Sociology)
MA 1995 - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Sociology)
Biography: Betsy Jose graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1995 with a Masters degree in Sociology. As an international student hailing from India, she has extensive work experience in the NGO as well as the media sector. While in India, Betsy worked with organizations like TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) and the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) of Delhi. She has also volunteered with Sangini (India) Trust. Betsy worked in the media sector in radio, TV and film in various capacities including radio show host, TV Producer, TV host, associate director, scriptwriter and voiceover artiste to mention a few. Her interests revolve around media and its repercussions on the shaping of perceptions about gender and sexuality. Betsy strongly believes in the power of film as a vehicle of creating discourses to counter hegemonic ideologies. In the course of pursuing her PhD along with a minor in Telecommunications, Betsy has already produced a couple of shorts on the Kinsey Institute here on campus. They are featured on Kinsey Institute's website.
Betsy's research interests revolve around the changing landscape of alternative sexualities in non-western cultures and the impact of media mechanisms, particularly film, on this phenomenon. In the summer of 2014, Betsy started the Alex Doty and Betsy Jose Indian Queer Film Collection at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. This Collection is a tribute to her mentor and guide, Professor Alexander Doty, whom we lost to a road accident in Bermuda in 2012. The Alex Doty and Betsy Jose Indian Queer Film Collection will comprise mainly independent films being made within India that have queer-related content.
Areas of Interest:
Comparative studies of sexuality and the changing face and space of intimacies in non-western cultures, film-making, media studies with reference to gender and sexuality, social activism.
A documentary film "Beyond Boundaries" produced and directed by third-year doctoral student Betsy Jose had its World Premiere at the IndyLGBT Film Festival in November 2009. The 26+ minutes film takes a close look at the lives of immigrants in USA with diverse sexualities. It deals with how various aspects of their identities intersect and interact in making their experiences distinct, as well as similar in many ways. This film, produced for broadcast on WTIU, has been made by a documentary class that Betsy pursued in Spring 2009.
Official Selection for "Beyond Boundaries" at:
Great Lakes International Film Festival 2010
Nominated for Best Gay/Lesbian Film
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2010 - Mumbai, India
Nominated for Best Documentary Short
Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival 2010 - Hollywood CA
Pride of the Ocean Cruise 2010 – NY to Bermuda
CineSlam Film Festival 2010 - Guilford, VT
Nominated for Best Short Film
Out Side Film Festival 2010 - Columbus, IN
Indy LGBT Film Festival 2009 - Indianapolis, IN
Nominated for Best Short Documentary
Conference Presentations:
2014 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Hyderabad, India.
Paper presented Queerative Spaces: The 2013 Kashish Mumbai International Queer the Gender and Communication Section in a Panel on Feminism, Activism and Media.
2009 International Communication Association (ICA), Chicago, IL
Paper presented – "Cinema's Scope: Gay and Lesbian Visibility in Contemporary Indian Cinema" at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies division in a session on Global Sexualities.
2014 Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship
The University Graduate School, Indiana University, Bloomington
2013 Gerald J. and Claire Larson Research-Travel Fellowship
Dhar India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2010 Summer Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant
Office of the Vice President of International Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington
2009 The Larry Gross Award for the Top Student Paper
International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Chicago, IL
2009 "Beyond Boundaries"
(This film is now part of the programming content of WTIU PBS network)
2008 "Inside the Kinsey Library" - http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/video.html
2008 "All About the Kinsey Institute"– http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/video.html
Shahin Kachwala
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2009 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
B.A. 2001 – Mithibai College (English Literature)
M.A. 2003 – University of Mumbai (English Literature)
M.A. 2007 – University at Albany (Women's Studies & Africana Studies)
Shahin Kachwala is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies with a minor in History. Her dissertation project, a work of gender and cultural history, examines the interwar period to furnish an account and analysis of the gendered role of violence during India's nationalist struggle. More specifically, her work looks at the relationship between violence and Indian political thought, and asks questions about women's political subjectivity particularly in reference to anti-colonial militancy.
Areas of Interest:
nationalisms, political violence, gender and colonialism, transnational feminisms, women's history
"The Body of the Nation? Female Suicide Bombers and Derivative Agency in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se and Santosh Sivan's The Terrorist," Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies (2013), Vol. 4, No. 1: 201-232
Courses Taught:
G101: Gender, Culture, and Society (Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Summer 2015)
Selected Awards:
College Arts & Humanities Institute Research Award (2015)
Mellon Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowship, Indiana University (2012−2013)
College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award, Indiana University (December 2012)
Dhar India Studies Research Fellowship, Indiana University (Summer 2012)
Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, Indiana University (Summer 2011)
College Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University (2010−2011)
For more information, please see: https://iub.academia.edu/ShahinKachwala
Lamont Loyd-Sims
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2013 Cohort
M.A. 2013 - Women's Studies, Georgia State University
B.A. 2010 - Sociology, Georgia State University
Lamont Loyd-Sims was born in South Central, Los Angeles, CA, later moving to Atlanta, GA at the age of 10. He recieved his B.A. in sociology and worked torwards his M.A. in women's studies at Georgia State University. While attending GSU, Lamont helped organize community among Black queer people through his work with BlackOUT, a student organization, and Sweet Tea Southern Queer Men's Collective. He currently serves on the board of the Atlanta based organization, Spark Reproductive Justice NOW!
Areas of Interest:
His research is primarily concerned with Black queer resistance through cultural work. More specifically he considers the ways in which j-setting, as a style of dance, creates new racial and gender possibilities for Black gay men throughout the US South. He is also interested in the ways in which social spaces help produce and circulate discourses attached to marginalized racial and gender subjects.
Alexandra Marcotte
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2012 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BS 2010 – Vanderbilt University (Women & Gender Studies; Cognitive Studies)
Area of Interest:
I am interested in exploring the rhetoric surrounding sex trafficking and understanding the implications of this rhetoric in society. I would also like to explore the ways in which sexual regulations contribute to a rise in sex trafficking. Although most of my research to date has centered on trafficking, I intend to expand this knowledge to include sex work, pornography, queer theory, embodiment, and performativity.
Adan Martinez
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2015 Cohort
University Nevada Las Vegas (2015) BA English, Gender and Sexuality
Adan holds a BA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in English and Womens Studies. He transferred from the local community college, College of Southern Nevada, where he majored in English. Adans research interests include masculinity, brown sexuality, and gay Latinos and the communities of which they are a part. Adan will study hegemonic constructions of brown masculine men. While also analyzing how brown masculine men perform their gender, and looking at the ways brown men embody hegemonic constructions of brown masculinity and sexuality and/or resist hegemonic constructions of brown masculinity and sexuality. In particular, Adan will look at the brown intact (uncircumcised) penis as a site to think about brown masculinity and sexuality. He will analyze masculinities and sexualities in relation to current social policy, dominant media constructions, and historical dichotomizations of healthy vs. unclean bodies.
Kimberly Miller
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2014 Cohort
Original hometown of Fort Lauderdale, FL, Kimberly Miller moved north to Pittsburgh, PA to study history and international relations at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was gratefully, exposed to the nuances and intersections of race, class and most saliently gender in fields historically dominated by patriarchal and heteronormative narratives. While studying history, she was compelled to research African-American womens historic agency throughout the modern civil rights movement through the Black Womens Oral History Project at Harvards Schlesinger Library in addition to female slave narratives for her senior honors thesis. It also explored the complex dynamics involving formation of a black American female identity as illustrated through womanism (black feminism) encompassed by the United States tumultuous racial history. Her prospective research interests at Indiana University engage in the politics of agency as it pertains to female sex work in the context of American capitalism. How that relates to sexuality, and race are also of interest.
Milo Rhodes
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2012 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2012 – University of Oklahoma (Women's and Gender Studies; English Literary and Cultural Studies)
Areas of Interest:
trans & queer studies, histories of sexuality, race & nation, affect & embodiment, narrative theory, literary & cultural studies.
Lauren Savit
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2015 Cohort
Simmons College (2014) M.A. Gender/Cultural Studies
Simmons College (2014) M.S. Communications Management
New York University (2008) B.A. Religious Studies and English & American Literature
Areas of Interest:
Lauren is interested in examining how gender, racial, and sexual identity is constructed through both hegemonic narratives and also disruptive counter-narratives. Her research includes analyzing cultural texts that are also sites of narrative construction, such as films, literature, and television, since these forces are often instrumental in defining and delineating cultural identities for mass audiences. She hopes to develop a theoretical framework for understanding how media is presently construed, how it interrogates the socio-historical context from which it emerged, and in particular how it might illuminate our understanding of socio-political markers of identity.
Emily Schusterbauer
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2006 Cohort
Cultural Representations and Media Practices
BA 2003 - University of Michigan (Art History and Women's Studies)
MA 2006 - Ohio State University (Women's Studies)
Areas of Interest:
literary and cultural representations of violence against women; autobiography; narratives of trauma; representation as a social and political act
K Schweighofer
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2008 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2001 - Princeton University (English Minor: Women's Studies)
MA 2005 - New York University (Gender Politics)
Areas of Interest:
rural queer theory, queer geographies, and lesbian-feminism; gender and sexuality in sports
Jocelyne Scott
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2011 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2011 – Bucknell University (French and International Relations)
Jocelyne completed her undergraduate work at Bucknell University where she received a B.A. magna cum laude in French and International Relations (2011). Her current research interests include intimate female friendship; kinship formations among women; and women-centered organizations. Specifically, her research focuses on the ways in which these themes complicate the idea of (im)proper feminist subjects; empowerment; agency; femininity and femme identity; and media representations of and by women.
Shadia Siliman
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2013 Cohort
B.A. 2013 - University of Hartford (Psychology and Gender Studies)
Shadia holds a double bachelor's in Psychology and Gender Studies from the University of Hartford, from which she graduated as valedictorian in 2013. She is currently researching sexual assault and consent.
Areas of Interest:
Shadia's research includes topics of sexual assault, masculinity studies, and queer studies. She is also a certified Sexual Assault Crisis Counselor, and participates in feminist activism.
Ariel Sincoff-Yedid
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2012 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2009 – Union College (Political Science)
MA 2013 – George Washington University (Middle East Studies)
Ariels research focuses broadly on gender identity development and the production and dissemination of knowledge about gender and sexuality. More specifically, her work investigates the relationships between ideational structures, normativity, and socialization around gender and sexuality. She concentrates her research in Arab Muslim communities domestically and abroad, and previously conducted research on modes of socialization among Sunni Muslim men in Beirut, Lebanon.
Amanda L. Stephens
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2014 Cohort
J.D., gender studies minor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
M.A. English/Creative Writing, Marshall University
B.A. English/Creative Writing, chemistry minor, Marshall University
Amanda had her feminist awakening while taking a feminist rhetoric course during her master's program at Marshall University. Since then, her academic, legal professional, and activist work has been informed by feminist thought, both in national and international spaces. From West Virginia, her home state, to Indiana and India, where she studied and worked abroad, her work has centered on sexual assault, reproductive health care barriers, child marriage, domestic violence, family law, gender and criminal law, and gender and comparative law. Ultimately, she aspires to teach, publish, and litigate on matters that intersect with gender and the law. She also recently passed the Indiana bar examination and aspires to perform legal work in the state while earning her doctorate. Messages from those with similar interests are most welcome.
Areas of Interest:
Current research interests include comparative legal analyses of "feminist" and non-feminist countries (e.g., Sweden and the U.S.), transnational feminism, gender quotas, the unemotionality of the legal system, cultural depictions of marriage and divorce, feminist rape theories, employment discrimination and intersectionality, judicial attitudes toward lesbian parents, First Amendment and pro-ana online spaces, and feminists and women in both legal education and the legal profession.
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Kathryn Thompson
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2007 Cohort
Cultural Representations and Media Practices
BA 2007 -Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Psychology)
Kathryn Thompson completed her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2007. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation, tentatively entitled "Ask Me Anything: A Digital Ethnography of Reddit Users" The dissertation explores how users of the social news site Reddit.com engage with issues concerning socially marked difference (gender, race, class, sexuality) online through ethnographic interviews with users and textual analysis of posted material. The project has two primary areas of focus. First, it examines strategies employed by users, particularly users marked by difference, during disagreements about these topics (each side asserting a conflicting worldview), and the success or failure of these strategies. Secondly, it explores the online community-building practices of minoritarian users, and the ways in which these communities navigate the tension between accessibility (being findable by others seeking community) and safety (keeping hostile comments and users out).
Areas of Interest:
the performance of minoritarian identities in digital forms and spaces, the phenomenology of new media, and transformative media practices such as fanfiction.
Allison Vandenberg
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2008 Cohort
Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
BA 2008 – Indiana University (Gender Studies, Sociology minor)
Allison Vandenberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender Studies with a minor in History. Her dissertation examines the phenomenological experiences produced through womens engagement in beauty practices in the United States between 1945 and 1985. In addition to teaching in the Department of Gender Studies at IU, she has also taught courses in the Department of Telecommunications, the Collins Living-Learning Center, and the Global Village Living-Learning Center.
Areas of Interest:
Phenomenological experiences of beauty practices; embodiment; bodily technologies; beauty culture as an expression of gender, respectability, entrepreneurship, and consumption; cultural and historical perspectives on gendered aesthetics
Courses Taught:
G104 Gender, Beauty, and Culture
G205 The Virgin Always Lives: Gender and Sexuality in Horror
Vandenberg, Allison. The Somatechnics of Hair Straightening in Crafting Allure: Beauty, Culture and Identity, Jacque Lynn Foltyn, ed. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. 89-97.
Vandenberg, Allison, The Somatechnics of Hair Straightening: Technology, Transformation, and Social Change" in (Re)Possessing Beauty:Politics, Poetics, Change, Sallie McNamara, ed. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014. 51-66.
Xavier M. Watson
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2014 Cohort
BA 2014 University of Kentucky (Gender and Womens Studies; Minor: Political Science)
Areas of Interest:
Fat studies, particularly fat queer masculinities and art; visual and material culture; feminist art history; aesthetics; curatorial studies and practice; sexuality; fiber arts and soft sculpture; museum studies; feminist art pedagogy and method; queer theory; texture, sensation, and affect.
Visit Xavier's academia.edu profile or xavierwatson.com to learn more about his research.

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Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church, with its members independent and free from debt, with time to labor in the ministry, can then successfully carry on the work of the Lord here on earth.
Source: "Practical Christianity," address given on CBS "Church on the Air," 2 Nov. 1941
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SPRINGFIELD -- Kennett girls tennis coach Janet Hilburn had few complaints about her team's performance at the Class 1 state final four in Springfield, Mo., after play concluded at Cooper Tennis Complex Thursday afternoon.
"The girls played well all day and I cannot ask for more effort," coach Hilburn said, when asked on her overall thoughts on her team's performance at the state final four. "They've given me a great season."
The Kennett Lady Indians placed fourth at the state final four Thursday. Barstow defeated Kennett 5-0 in its Class 1 state semifinal contest and Logan-Rogersville beat Kennett 5-0 in the Class 1 third-place match.
"We talked about the positives and the negatives," coach Hilburn said, when asked what she said to her team after the final four concluded. "We are looking forward to next year. We've seen the best of the best.
"We've seen we can compete with the competition at the state level and we shouldn't get our heads down," coach Hilburn continued. "We've got a great deal of work to do in the offseason because we want to be back here again next year."
Thursday's state final four matches were played in frigid and windy conditions. According to weather.com, winds gusted to 32 miles per hour in Springfield Thursday afternoon and temperatures remained in the 50s for most of the day.
Alexa McPherson observed first hand how the weather impacted play. McPherson had the luxury of playing her first varsity singles match against Barstow's Emily Reed on an indoor court and her second varsity singles match against Logan-Rogersville's Emma Ethridge outdoors.
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Marti advised me on this one and I have used Vista for a few days now and I
just love it, fscking WOW!! In June, my Ubuntu computer had seen its last
leg, so I bought a new computer with Vista Ultimate loaded onto it. I
purchased the Vista Ultimate edition because I upgraded my computer
requirements due some increased job requirements. The first problem I had
was the HP scanner I had now didn't work. This was not surprising because it
was an old scanner to begin with. My older HP ink jet printer did have a
updated driver and works fine. The only other problem I encountered was one
specialized software program, a genealogy program didn't have any Vista
driver updates but it worked fine (I have since bought a new version written
with Vista). I have to say my overall experience with Vista has been
completely positive. It doesn't crash or freeze as often as Ubuntu or most
Linux distro's and when it does, you can recover right back to where you
were in the program. My DSL connection was a breeze to connect, Vista even
made all the connections for me intuitively - I didn't need to jump in and
input all the server addresses, etc. I suppose my need for a high-end
computer has made a difference for me because that plays to Vista's
strength. But I have purchased a laptop for my mother to stay in contact
with grandchildren in other states and it only has the Vista Home Edition on
it. It also works just fine. I don't know what everyone is talking about
when they start trashing Vista, I have had a *wonderful* experience. It is
different and required a learning curve to relearn how to do things in the
OS but that is to be expected. And I think that is what most people are
complaining about - change. Vista is different from XP. But XP was different
from Windows 95 and all the Windows OS's were different from MS-DOS (which
was easy to use if you knew all the commands) but I don't think we want to
start going backwards, do we?