Student Spotlights – May 2020
Posted in: Student Feature of the Month
Featured here in our Student Spotlight are some sensational culminating projects from Dr. Pascale LaFountain’s “Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies” class in Spring ’20. 本课程的学生探索LGBTQ+研究的基础话语、文化和历史，并考虑LGBTQ+身份与种族、性别、民族、社会经济学等之间的强大交集。 The projects showcased here are exemplary for how they take up these complex factors!
Colin Corcoran – “My View. A Contextual Queer History” [from the 80s to the present]
Nina Farley – “The Lesbian Scrapbook I Never Had” [emulating 70s lesbian collective creativity]
Mary Kurkowiak – “Draw My Life: The Journey Thus Far” [consideration of asexuality in cultural-autobiographical context] Graphic Novel-Style with original illustrations!
Meredith Lynch – “Schadenfreude” [original music composition based on Freud’s 5 stages of psychosexual development] From Meredith’s Artist’s statement: “This explores how the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Richard von Krafft-Ebing apply to the modern young woman.”
Sabrina Wigfall – “Splintered Beauties: Lonely Midnight” [original novella dealing with intersectionality and black lesbian identities] Sabrina is a creative writing major.