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Item Sufficient Magic: Queer Prison Comix as Liberation Praxis(Ohio State University Press, 2024) Morse, NicolePrison art has many functions, from representation to healing to rehabilitation, and it can make use of many different kinds of media, including comix. For prison abolitionists, prison art is most powerful when it is connected to larger struggles against the criminal punishment system, and comix offer unique affordances to abolitionist movements. From cells to movement blur to the gutter, comix enable artists to interrogate carcerality and gendered oppression simultaneously. Through close readings of comix and correspondence with artists and organizers, this article examines the world-making praxis of incarcerated trans artists who are creating and distributing original comix with the abolitionist organization ABO Comix. While most scholarship on prison art explores state-sanctioned programs, ABO Comix is independent from the prison system, producing alternative possibilities as well as unique challenges for artists and organizers. In comix by trans artist Krysta Morningstarr* as well as other artists, incarcerated LGBTQ artists use comix as a form of world-making, mutual aid, and collective praxis within and beyond the prison borders.Item Catriona Macleod, Alexandra Shephard, Maria Ågren (eds), The Whole Economy, Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 230 pp. ISBN 9781009359368(Open Edition Journals, 2024-09-19) Froide, AmyItem Henry Ossawa Tanner and His Influence in America(Traditional Fine Arts Organization, 2006-06-07) Smalls, JamesBaltimore Museum of Art, June 7-November 26, 2006Item Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris(Traditional Fine Arts Organization, 2005-12-02) Smalls, JamesBaltimore Museum of Art, December 7, 2005-May 28, 2006Item A GHOST OF A CHANCE: Invisibility and Elision in African American Art Historical Practice(The University of Chicago Press, 1994-04) Smalls, JamesItem Man, Idea, Image: Photographs of Men from the Mark Rice Collection(UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, 2017-08-30) Smalls, JamesAlbin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 30-December 12, 2017Item Voicing New Critical Perspectives(The University of Chicago Press, 2003-04) Smalls, JamesItem Slavery is a Woman: ‘Race,’ Gender, and Visuality in Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800)(Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, 2004) Smalls, JamesItem A teacher uses Star Trek for difficult conversations on race and gender(The Conversation, 2015-07-22) Smalls, JamesWhat can Star Trek teach us about today’s trek of life?Item URCAD 2024(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2024-05-01) Anson, Ian; Kim, Jean; Awan, Pakeeza; Joslow, Rachael; Hoang, Lien; Osei, Emmanuella; Cline, Carrington; Byrd, Ziegfried; Anson,Ian; Mallinson,Christine; Filomeno,Felipe; Kim,Jean; Moreland,D’Juan; Barnes,Amy; Ralston,MyriamOn today’s episode we hear about a series of fantastic presentations from UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day, also known as URCAD. During URCAD, students from across the social science disciplines presented their excellent research to the campus community and beyond. Our special host for today’s episode is our production assistant, Jean Kim. Stay tuned for this wonderful celebration of undergraduate achievement–in podcasting as well as in social science research!Item Bitch Syndrome: Investigating How Masking, Late Diagnosis, and the Patriarchy Impact Autistic Women’s Social Experiences(UMBC Review, 2024) ADAMS, DARCIE; Holladay, DrewThis study proposes a new term “bitch syndrome,” intended to encapsulate the experiences autistic women face at the intersection of disability and the patriarchy: the double stigmatization of failing to be feminine enough while also failing to adhere to allistic social standards. Being labeled as “bitchy” by their peers leads these women to produce and sustain allistic “masks” more successfully and for longer periods than male autists, which reinforces gendered behavioral expectations. This study is a mixed-method phenomenological approach that examines first-person narratives from autistic women using TikToks, Tweets, and other written narratives. This study quantitatively identifies the words most commonly used negatively towards autistic women, and then seeks to qualitatively understand how identified themes permeate these interactions to reproduce stigma against autism and disability, patriarchal gender norms, and a culture of closeted silence for autistic women. This study contributes to a growing body of research into why autistic women are underdiagnosed. Importantly, this study is on a research topic of great importance to the autistic community itself, and participates in the fast-growing movement for autism research to be done by autistic people.Item “I have something for you”: The Erotic Habitus and Class Situatedness of the Pizza Boy Trope in Gay Pornography(The Projector, 2024-12) Dashiell, StevenItem Gaming Capital on Overwatch's Official Forums(Sage, 2023-09-14) Korkeila, Henry; Dashiell, Steven; Harviainen, J. TuomasThis study uses the public discussion boards of Overwatch to see how context-based gaming capital is present, accumulated and expended through the messages. The data consists of a 1-month snapshot from which 50 most viewed threads were analyzed. The following aspects were recorded from each thread and first 10 replies: views, number of comments, users’ role in forums, has the developer replied to thread, topic, date, whether there are types of capital (social, economic, cultural, symbolic) present, and in what linguistic form is the message posted. Findings: while discussions are within Overwatch's framework, there is scarcely any demonstrable amount of gaming capital in a single post or reply. Certain topics elicited more discussion, articulation methods varied but greatly leaned on the user's anecdotal experiences. Further, it was found that gaming capital is used to validate users’ own views and argument for the credibility of the user and their messages.Item Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame(MDPI, 2015-08-10) Patil, Vrushali; Purkayastha, BandanaIntersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. That is, we explore the treatment of the rape of a local Indian woman in New Delhi, India, and the rape of a white woman in Steubenville, USA, in the New York Times and the Times of India. We find that contra assumptions in the intersectional literature, the racialized Indian victim is hyper-visible across both papers while the white US victim is relatively invisible. Situating both newspapers within the global histories of the development of news as a particular genre of storytelling, we argue that their respective locations within larger processes shaped by colonial, imperial and neo-colonial histories have critical implications for the coverage each paper offers. Thus, we argue that issues of race and visibility in media operate very differently depending on the space and scale of analysis. In an increasingly globalized world, then, we must start paying attention to the transnational and its implications for rape, race and (in)visibility in news media. Ultimately, our approach brings together processes of racialization at multiple scales—both below the nation and above the nation—to offer a more complex, multi-scalar understanding of how racialization processes impact rape coverage.Item Colorblind Feminisms: Ansari-Grace and the Limits of #MeToo Counterpublics(The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Patil, Vrushali; Puri, JyotiThis article focuses on the uproar over the sexual encounter between actor/comedian Aziz Ansari and a woman known publicly as Grace as a lens onto the colorblind counterpublic feminisms driving the #MeToo movement. Tracing the ways that this sexual encounter between a Brown Muslim man and an anonymous, presumably white, woman were spotlighted, we show that race is superficially absent even as it informs the range of feminist counterpublics that emerged around this case. Extending feminist theories of counter/publics, we explore the ways that the hybrid media system, including traditional as well as digital media, enables colorblind feminisms. Focusing on Facebook as an index of these plural feminist perspectives, we examine eighty-four of the most shared links on this platform to show that, regardless of the positions taken, issues of gender and sexuality dominate framings of the Ansari-Grace encounter, even as race and racialization implicitly mediate the public conversations on heterosexual violence and misconduct. Situating these conversations within the broader history of US racisms and the politics of sexual assault, we also point to how mediated technologies are contributing to the hypervisibility of men of color and shaping which cases occupy the limelight and the feminist counterpublics emerging around them. We argue that these colorblind feminist counterpublics, in effect, center the pain of white women.Item Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean(Oxford University Press, 2022-09-22) Armstrong-Partida, Michelle; McDonough, SusanThis article challenges a long-entrenched model of two discrete marital regimes in northern and southern Europe. Demographer John Hajnal argued in 1965 that a distinctive north-western European Marriage Pattern emerged post-1700 when a large population of unmarried men and women married in their early to late twenties and formed their own household rather than join a multi-generational household. The corollary to this argument is that women in southern Europe married young and universally, and thus rarely entered into domestic service. Medievalists have embraced and repeated this paradigm, shaping assumptions about the Mediterranean as less developed or less European than the north and ignoring the experience of women enslaved throughout the region.Notaries and judicial officials in medieval Barcelona, Valencia, Mallorca, Marseille, Palermo, Venice, Famagusta and Crete recognized singlewomen owning property, buying, selling and manumitting enslaved people, appointing procurators, committing crimes and making wills. We reintegrate the experiences of singlewomen, both enslaved and free, into the daily life of the medieval Mediterranean. Understanding how these women made community, survived economically and participated in the legal and notarial cultures of their cities reframes our understanding of women?s options outside marriage in the medieval past.Item Finding Amica in the Archives: Navigating a Path between Strategic Collaboration and Independent Research(Oxford University Press, 2021-11-05) Armstrong-Partida, Michelle; McDonough, SusanThis article is a call for US-based historians to consider participating in strategic collaboration with fellow academics in their field. Out of a series of lucky encounters in person and with documentary collections, the authors, both archival historians, created a generous and expansive collaboration both in research and writing. Galvanized by the shift in working conditions occasioned by the coronavirus, the authors map out how the field in the United States should change to accommodate and reward such collaboration.Item Captured at Home: Gender, Family, and the Burden of Captivity(Brepols Publishers, 2017) McDonough, SusanItem Affective networks across the divide: singlewomen, the notarial archive, and social connections in the late medieval Mediterranean(Taylor & Francis, 2023-12-07) McDonough, Susan; Armstrong-Partida, MichelleThough previous scholarship has presumed singlewomen in medieval Southern Europe were nearly non-existent and had few means, notarial sources from the late medieval Mediterranean reveal not only that singlewomen were present in the thriving port cities, but also that they created extensive networks among other women and men in order to survive and in some cases to flourish. Some had children out of wedlock, some were formerly enslaved, others traveled long distances and still remembered family members in their places of origin, and many built new communities in their homes. Indeed, it is remarkable that many of these migrant and formerly enslaved women created deep ties to both local and migrant neighbors, and their actions suggest a sense of responsibility to manumit other enslaved peoples and give charity to poor women. We investigate how singlewomen strategically used their final wills and testaments and other notarial documents to sustain, post-mortem, the networks that nurtured the women in their life, both friends and family members. We consider how women bestowed personal goods and financial legacies to maintain and memorialize their relationships and to sustain community, even in their absence.Item Amigas and Amichs: Prostitute-Concubines, Strategic Coupling, and Laboring-Class Masculinity in Late Medieval Valencia and the Mediterranean(University of Chicago Press, 2023-01-01) McDonough, Susan; Armstrong-Partida, MichelleThis article illuminates the experiences of prostitute-concubines in late medieval Valencia and the Mediterranean. It addresses their economic and affective relationships with amichs and argues that the temporary concubinary union between a prostitute and a low-status man, often a foreigner or itinerant laborer, was important to the gender identity of men at the lower levels of medieval society. Our analysis shows that patrician men who comprised the Consell de Valencia worked to denigrate the manhood of poor and laboring men through the criminalization of these short-term relationships.