Tag: Identity
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July 8, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Happiness is of such importance that the Declaration of Independence uses it as a foundational principle. Considering its importance in my own society, one would think that I thoroughly understand the term. However, it is as slippery today as it has always been. …
February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
May 8, 2020 Thanks to Dylan O’Hara, a 2020 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community, Monica Perales writes a new history of borderland life, chronicling the lives and memories of Chicano El Pasoans working at and living near The American Smelting and Mining Company (ASARCO). In …
March 6, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “There’s more truth in myth than in truth.” – Natalie Diaz Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize speech clearly demonstrates her brilliance. She speaks in parables that are simultaneously straightforward, honest, and complicated. In this speech, Morrison delivers a story of some children who approach …
January 17, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “[G]ive me a life/ wherever there is opportunity/ to live, and better life than was my father’s.” – Oedipus the King by Sophocles (translated by David Grene) Last week, I discussed a play from around 430 BC as well as a novel published …
August 31, 2018 Thanks to George Hickman, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. For most of us, we experience the role of an audience member far more often than we experience the role of an artist. On our daily commutes, our mood is at the whim of the radio …
The Audience as the Artist: LARP’s Place in Media Read More »
August 17, 2018 Thanks to Sam Risak, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. Ramona Ausubel’s short story “Atria” illustrates the ineffectiveness of logic against constructed but powerful societal pressure. She imagines the struggle of teenage pregnancy through the eyes of Hazel. Regardless of the outside evidence Ausubel provides that …
Forget Blue or Brown Eyes, My Baby Will Have Five-Hundred Eyes Read More »
April 6, 2018 Thanks to Carter Vance, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. When the European Union first gave legal force the notion of “right to be forgotten”, in a 2014 court ruling against Google, I was amongst those who were both confused at the practical impacts and fearful of …
March 9, 2018 Thanks to Sam Risak, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. An unnamed narrator sheds weight but not her past in Carmen Maria Machado’s “Eight Bites.” After a gastric bypass surgery, old flesh is personified into a “body with nothing it needs: no stomach or bones or …
September 22, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week, I attended a lecture at St. John’s College titled, “The Intermittencies of the Self: Philosophic and Poetic Inquiries into the Nature of Selfhood (Or: Is Literature the Most Important Activity a Human Being Can Engage in, and Should You Dedicate Your …
