Nikita
To teach or not to teach? Nonbinary Language in Spanish and Portuguese
Image Courtesy of BoldLatina.com While universities in the United States have adopted the use of they/them pronouns in classrooms to...
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Nikita
Nov 30, 20224 min read
Gender inclusive language in the Spanish and Portuguese language classrooms
The above image uses the word "All" in Spanish articulated in several ways. "Todas" and "todos" are traditional gendered constructions....
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Nikita
Nov 9, 20223 min read
How do we solve a problem like Peterson?
Jordan Peterson. Image courtesy of Toronto Star via Getty Images (2017) Figures like we have discussed in class, epitomized by Jordan...
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Nikita
Nov 2, 20227 min read
Chappelle: This case study is anything but closed.
Promotional Image of "The Closer", courtesy of Netflix. As we have seen in our coursework, cancellation has risen in popularity since the...
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Nikita
Oct 26, 20226 min read
Cancel Culture: Can we reach the realization of Mill's philosophy?
Image of political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, who's ideas of Free Speech go into direct conflict with the phenomena of cancel...
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Nikita
Oct 19, 20227 min read
The Racialization and Consequential Criminalization of the Latino Body
Image of a child at a protest, her sign echoes racist comments made by President Trump in 2015 about Mexican Immigrants. Image courtesy...
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Nikita
Oct 9, 20226 min read
A Strange Loop: A Pechakucha
A Strange Loop is a musical written by playwright Michael R. Jackson which premiered on off-Broadway stages in 2019. The play shortly...
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Nikita
Oct 5, 20227 min read
Recent Representations of Race in Film and Television
Photo courtesy of TV Insider, The cast of Abbott Elementary on set The last few weeks we have read and spoke in depth about the process...
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Nikita
Sep 28, 20225 min read
Reality Checks and Racial Formation
Race, according to Omi and Winant, is “a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different...
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Nikita
Sep 21, 20227 min read
Sarah Kane’s "Blasted" and Pechakucha
Photo taken by Pia Johnson, courtesy of The Conversation. I think like some of my classmates, the Pechakucha presentation model was...
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Nikita
Sep 14, 20226 min read
Who gets to matter?
Afghani's trying to board flights leaving the country follow the Taliban's take over in 2021. Image courtesy of Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty...
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Nikita
Sep 7, 20224 min read
The Role of Art in Hardship
As the graduate resting for this week shows, “Art Resistance against Russia’s ‘Non-Invasion’ of Ukraine”, art has a strong theoretical...
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Nikita
Aug 31, 20226 min read
The Discursive Affects of the Russian-Ukrainian War: Propaganda and Racism
Photograph by Zowy Voeten / Getty In his chapter, “Trauma is as Trauma Does” in the book Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence,...
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