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Item Beyond the talk-back: performing autoethnography and the functions of critique(University of California Press, 2017-10-26) Rowe, Desireé D.; Towson University. Department of Mass Communication and Communication StudiesReflecting on my own experiences with talk-backs and audience responses, this manuscript uses metaphor to map the functions of autoethnographic performance critique. Through an exploration of vulnerability within performance, I turn to three key areas: theoretical accessibility, performativity, and accountability in order to chart how to engage in critique of performance autoethnography.Item Investigating Cultural Sustainability and Identity by Analyzing my St. Thomian Family through Autoethnography(2020-07-28) Corley, Alaysia; Kymaani, Dr. Roxanne J.; MA in Cultural SustainabilityThis capstone explores what aspects of culture, if any, have been sustained, lost, or transformed within my St. Thomian family. This paper is split into two sections, themes from literature and takeaways from dialogues. “Themes from Literature” highlights commons topics from St. Thomas’s history that have possible implications on my family. The paper further analyzes how each theme was sustained, lost, or transformed within my family based off the dialogues conducted. My work incorporates interviews with my mother, grandmother, two great-aunts, and five cousins. “Takeaways from Dialogues” are significant concepts centering around community and the difficulties of sustaining culture that were discovered and developed during and after having conversations with my family. Lastly, my reflection ends by me discussing how I plan on sustaining my family’s culture.Item Please don't use the restraints: forgetting, failure, and childbirth(Sage Publications, 2016-07) Rowe, Desireé D.; Towson University. Department of Mass Communication and Communication StudiesThe end of the story is all you care about. So, let’s get that out of the way first. Penelope Jane was born on March 23rd. She was healthy. The trauma of that day still resonates within my body, called into being through subsequent visits to the hospital and a review of my own medical records from that day. A life-threatening fever and 9 hours of pushing led to a powerfully negative birth experience, one that I am consistently told to just forget. After she had a weeklong stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), I have a healthy daughter. In this article, I use auto/archeology as a tool to examine my own medical records and the affective traces of my experience in the hospital to call into question Halberstam’s advocacy of forgetting as queer resistance to dominant cultural logics. While Halberstam explains that “forgetting allows for a release from the weight of the past and the menace of the future” I hold tightly to my memories of that day. This article marks the disconnects between an advocacy of forgetting and my own failure of childbirth and offers a new perspective that embraces the queer potentiality of remembering trauma.Item Reimagining Resistance: Rest as Reparations(2021) Turk, Jasmine; MA in Cultural SustainabilityThis project explores "How rest could serve as a mode of resistance and reparations for Black people in American". By providing readers with a review of relevant literature, social media analysis, and reflexive writing this research peers into the topics of the nuanced relationship that Black people in American have with rest and the resource and opportunity gaps that follow as a result. Furthermore, this project explores the concept of how the recognition of where this nation has been could possibly inform where we go. Throughout this project, the researcher suggests that recognition of harm and racially charged inequities, paired with the enacting of rest could potentially lead towards Black healing and repair, ideally serving as an effective cultural and community-based healing instrument and reparations for Black people in America.