sjfgss: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called sjfgss.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Gender; Queer; Violence; Sex; Film; Body; Men; Media; Health; Students; Feminist; War; Gay; Woman; Queerness; San; Way; Girls; Desert; Womb; Manuela; Breasts; Hel; Chee

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• The Making of "Woman": The Evolution of Chinese State Feminism(s) Under Three Chinese Leaders by Yang, Jessica (2022) - The Fourth U.N. World Conference of Women (1995) in Beijing was a crucial turning point in helping Chinese women recognize the importance of self-agency and begin challenging state-imposed gender roles. Without analyzing how China’s feminist rhetoric emerged with its sociopolitical context, it becomes virtually impossible to advocate for a culturally-appropriate “gender equality” that empowers, rather than constrains, Chinese women. Keywords: china; chinese; deng; equality; feminist; gender; mao; rhetoric; state; women
• When Worlds Collide: Challenges and Opportunities in Virtual Reality by Lee, Olivia (2022) - Two gendered innovations can address these challenges: first, VR applications can help develop empathy towards traditionally marginalized communities, and second VR headsets can be more sex-inclusive. Two gendered innovations can address these challenges: first, VR applications can help develop empathy towards traditionally marginalized communities, and second VR headsets can be more sex-inclusive. Keywords: applications; females; gender; hardware; immersive; reality; sex; technology
• The Transfiguration: Christianity’s God as Newly Known Queer by Lopez, Angie (2022) - God is a strange and disruptive wielder of queer time that makes the future untenable through the present and timeless persistence of an unknowable past. In this way, a critical re- adherence to religion relies on the queer socio-political disavowal of hetero-capitalist time in exchange for the embracing of queer affective time driven by a corporeal receptivity to wonder. Keywords: christ; christian; divine; gender; god; non; queer; time
• Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Performances of Power by Saracco, Isabella (2022) - In his introduction, Cavazzi made a great distinction between the uncommitted Christian Njinga of the past and the fully converted Njinga of the ‘present’, stating that “I briefly describe to you…[Njinga’s] life, her customs, the barbarities and cruelties she committed in the past, so that when her vice is noted, the virtue should also be manifest which she shows at the present time, in contrast to the past” (circ. 1668/2008). ’23 Abstract: This paper concerns the different ways in which Queen Njinga, the 16th century ruler of present-day Angola, performed power. Keywords: cavazzi; circ; gender; heywood; njinga; power
• Let Her Play: A report on gender-based violence in video games by Mettler, Kirsten (2022) - But, women are not the only victims of gaming harassment. Globally, video games are a $152 billion industry, and approximately 3.1 billion people, or 40% of the population, are players (Ingersoll & Anti-Defamation League, 2019, Price, 2020). Keywords: companies; female; fox; games; gaming; gender; harassment; industry; players; tang; video; women
• Caught in the Crossfire: An Intersectional Analysis of Gun Violence in America by Hsu, Emily (2023) - In this paper, we will discuss gendered innovations in gun violence: how considering gender can redefine gun culture. In addition to considering gender, we will take an intersectional approach in evaluating gun violence carried out by white men in America who experience a sense of entitlement that has been disrupted by shifting economic and political tides. Keywords: august; gender; gun; guns; health; mass; men; mental; violence
• The SCUM of Daddy's Girls: Monstrous Cuteness as Gender Resistance in Bunny by Hsu, Leina (2023) - Even before their murderous unveiling, the Bunnies embody monstrous cuteness through their behavior. All in all, in Bunny, monstrous cuteness grants the Bunnies control over their identities in relation to womanhood, creation, men, and each other. Keywords: awad; bunnies; bunny; cuteness; gender; samantha; women
• Gait Recognition in Interaction with Queer Citizens by Krohn, Mason (2023) - Known as gait recognition technology, modern software is capable of detecting a unique signature from the way an individual walks either through video recordings or motion sensors. Essentially, gait recognition technology offers a way to decipher who an individual is based on specific components of their style of movement. Keywords: classification; et al; gait; gender; people; queer; recognition; software; surveillance; technology
• The Underrepresentation of Female Students in Computer Science Programs: Debunking Structural Gender Inequalities in Academia by Ma, Yixuan (2023) - Aside from the unbalanced gender composition, female CS students also suffer from quotidian gender essentialism and a sense of isolation under a male-dominated paradigm. Aside from the unbalanced gender composition, female CS students also suffer from quotidian gender essentialism and a sense of isolation under a male-dominated paradigm (Charles & Bradley, 2006). Keywords: computer; education; female; gender; programs; science; students; underrepresentation; women
• (Trans)Cultural Queer (In)Visibility by Vachovska, Lora (2023) - Of course, not every attitude falls neatly into one category or the other, but these are the two overarching themes which I will use to explain the tension around using English for queer identity labels. The first trend shows that, oftentimes, English queer identity labels can give people a place to discover and define their identity. Keywords: english; gender; identity; labels; language; people; queer; queerness
• Divine Drag: Unveiling Ascetic Afflictions through Hierarchy, Race, and Queerness by Ky, Carolyn (2024) - This effectively relegated Ethiopian monks and laypeople to a lower status as living representations of monastic logismoi. Other monks, revealing their internal phobias when confronted with someone too ascetic or too evil, employ racial language to diminish Moses’ newfound virtues. Keywords: brakke; christian; demons; gender; life; monastic; monks; saints
• Stars Surrounded by Darkness by Wu, Qingyun (2024) - There are two reasons why the percentages of dominance display are generally low in female idol group music videos: calculation and coding constancy. To fit into the Western imagination of Asian women, female idol groups were manipulated as being docile sexual objects under the control of their male managers. Keywords: bodies; display; entertainment; femininity; feminism; gender; generations; girl; groups; idols; industry; kim; music; pop; songs; videos; women
• Boy dancers and men on horses: Post-colonial identity and gender policy in modern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Harrel, Michaela (2024) - Identity-building in the post-Soviet era has relied on rejecting “Soviet-ness” as a marker of colonial history and turning to “pre-Soviet national heritage,” yet it was the Soviet Union that first criminalized homosexuality in Uzbekistan (Yemelianova 2014) (Aripova 2022). Despite trying to establish unique post-Soviet and anti-colonial national identities, modern politicians are forced to use the borders, identities, and narratives manufactured by the Soviet Union, creating historical dis/continuities and blurring the line between pre-colonial, Soviet, and post-Soviet in each of the republics. Keywords: central; countries; gender; identity; islam; kazakhstan; lgbtq; post; soviet; uzbekistan
• But I’m a Cheerleader; a Camp Critique of Heteronormativity by Leonard, Isabelle (2025) - The exaggeration of dominant gender roles “serves to emphasize how both [sexuality and gender identity] are constructs whose ‘correct’ performance takes effort” (Horn, 2017, p. 84). This essay argues that the film reclaims Camp as a queer mode of expression, using it to ridicule dominant culture while validating queer identities and relationships. Keywords: camp; cheerleader; dominant; film; gender; queer
• Having a Voice, Behind Heard: Lessons on Gender Dynamics in Policy Conversations by Cotsman, Ashley (2025) - Early in her career, she worked for a lobbying firm and found her niche in healthcare policy—a field notably dominated by women: “Women dominate health policy because of our inherent traits. A New Chapter for Women in Policy At times, it feels almost ungrateful to dwell on the lingering disparities between men and women in policymaking. Keywords: academia; conversations; dynamics; gender; interruptions; lobbying; male; policy; policymaking; role; services; voice; women; work
• Might for Right: Martial Arts for Youth Development and Women’s Empowerment by Saran, Riya (2025) - Martial arts programs present a unique opportunity to further these development goals as they have been proven to increase physical and mental strength, teach life skills, provide mentorship opportunities, and allow women and girls to challenge restrictive gender norms. Based on this data, I present the Snakes and Ladders framework for martial arts programs to effectively achieve SDGs. Keywords: arts; development; female; gender; instructors; jhoon; jhoon rhee; kwon; programs; rhee; students; tae; women

• Lavender as a Symbol of Queerness, Environment, and Migration in Futur Drei/No Hard Feelings (2020)’s Scenes of Utopia by Zhang, Cybele (2022) - Looking through the lens of immigration status, lavender is again an apt choice for the climactic scene because the plant is not indigenous to Germany; while lavender grows there today thanks to global trade and advanced farming techniques, the plant originates in Iran, the Mediterranean coast, Atlantic Islands, Asia Minor, and India (Quin 1864; “Lavender,” n.d.). Historically, the color, plant, and term lavender were covert signals of gay men’s identity in order to signal their sexuality to other gay men, while avoiding public persecution (Ellis, 2020). Keywords: banafshe; film; germany; lavender; parvis; plants; queer; scene; shariat
• Compulsory (hetero)sexuality and queer virginity in Troilus and Criseyde and Sappho and Phao by Ferretti, Martina (2023) - Venus justifies her meddling with Sappho by saying that “she [is] amiable, and therefore must be pierced,” which brings together the lexicons of courtly love tradition (in that Sappho is worthy of and obligated to receive and bestow love due to her “amiability”) and brutality (l. I.i.52). Even Phao envisions Love as a conquering force, saying, “to yield to love is the only thing I hate,” again using the vocabulary of battle and surrender (ll. II.i.131- 132). Keywords: criseyde; love; queer; sappho; sexuality; troilus; venus
• The Evolution of New Queer Cinema and Lesbian Representation in Indie Film by Beutter, Grace (2024) - 23 Abstract: Films like Desert Hearts (Deitch, 1985) and The Watermelon Woman (Dunye, 1996)– produced a decade apart but both labeled as essential New Queer films– take notably different approaches in terms of aesthetics, strategy, and concern, but each contain key traces of pastiche, appropriation, and social constructionism. Only at the end of the film do we find out that Fae’s identity is fictional, and merely representative of the many Black actresses omitted from film history. Keywords: desert; film; hearts; new; queer; watermelon; woman
• The Sociolinguistic Benefits of Multilingualism for the LGBTQ Community by Nova, Patricia (2025) - Academics studying the separate fields of language and queerness have each arrived at similar conclusions: Speaking multiple languages enriches identity construction (Kasper, 1992), and identity itself is pivotal in navigating a queer journey, in the sense that having a label to assign to an identity makes the ability to explore oneself in their niche far easier (Pew Research Center, 2013). - Jeremy ● I think speaking multiple languages can create an extremely interesting dynamic in any space. Keywords: community; english; expression; identity; language; lgbtq; multilingualism; people; queer; queerness; research; spanish; way
• Reading Trans Resistance and Care in Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen by Khine, Sandi (2025) - Under the framework of transgender Marxism, trans work struggles, like Eriko’s, and “what they offer to the broader gender freedom of the working class, breaks open the relationship between identity liberation and class struggle” (O’Brien, 2021, p. 75). I argue that Eriko has created a queer household in the Tanabe apartment, where her queer life is reproduced and exists separately from the traditional gendered norms of care labor. Keywords: care; eriko; labor; queer; trans; work

• A Continuum of Violence: Karayuki-san, Comfort Women, and Sex Tourism in Japan by Zhu, Jessy (2022) - Microsoft Word - CE+A+Continuum+of+Violence+Resubmission.docx A Continuum of Violence: Karayuki-san, Comfort Women, and Sex Tourism in Japan Jessica Zhu, Stanford ’24 Abstract: From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, thousands of Japanese women were trafficked to foreign countries and employed at brothels. From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, thousands of Japanese women like Kikuyo were trafficked to foreign countries. Keywords: comfort; comfort women; japan; karayuki; military; san; sex; stations; violence; war; women
• Desire as Violation: Sexual Violence as a Social Crime in Early Modern English Court Records and Literature by Kupor, Alexa (2023) - This is supported through the works’ suggestion that the ability to both rape and be raped was a consequence of social standing as well as their descriptions of the reverberations of rape throughout a victim’s broader community. Evidently, a woman’s prior social disrepute, whether based on her individual nature, the status of her friends and family, or her noncompliance with gendered social obligations could significantly weaken the applicability of the contemporary legal understanding of rape to her case; this ultimately strengthens the idea that such an understanding was rooted in an affront to social standing. Keywords: bailey; crime; lucrece; rape; shakespeare; trial; violence; woman
• Colored and Constrained Hues: Exploring the Depiction of Gender-Based Violence in South Asian News Media by Fasihuddin, Zoya (2024) - By infusing color into the analytical process, I hope to elicit a more visceral and empathetic response, fostering a deeper connection to the individual experiences of women like Noor that are painted into the chromatic narratives of South Asian media. Another example of a sensationalist headline in South Asian media is “Uncle Turns Monster, Rapes 18-month year old Baby” (Feminism in India, 2021). Keywords: asian; blaming; cases; gbv; media; south; victim; violence; women
• Interrogating the 'Exceptional': The Rhetoric and Reality of Sexual Violence and Stanford Greek Life by Forman, Lily (2024) - Simultaneously, Stanford students and affiliates subscribe to the notion of Stanford exceptionalism: an understanding of Stanford Greek life as less sexually violent and problematic than Greek life at other institutions. Through my research, I seek to explore the extent to which this idea is true and the impact that the belief in Stanford exceptionalism has on the reality of sexual violence within Stanford Greek life. Keywords: campus; fraternity; greek; life; members; organizations; stanford; students; system; university; violence
• Sanitizing Yellow Peril: How Asian Pornotroping Erects White Saviorism by Li, Yunchi (2025) - These tropes construct abject Asian female subjectivities, assigning a perverse hypersexuality to Asian women as an inherent characteristic that starkly contrasts with the normative and morally superior sexuality embodied by white women on screen (Shimizu, 2000). This intersection of patriarchal oppression and colonial exploitation laid the foundation for Asian pornotroping, embedding narratives of destitution and sexual availability into the racialized portrayals of Asian women. Keywords: american; butterfly; colonial; kim; madama; miss; pornotroping; saigon; sexuality; suzie; violence; white; women

• Is that Sexual Innuendo?: How The Wife of Bath Displays Female Intelligence through Euphemism by Maris Arias, Rosana (2022) - In other words, the Wife argues that men would not be nourished without the sustenance the vagina, or “barley-bread” provides. To clarify, the Wife’s statement on making men work the land suggests that she is boasting about her abilities in bed or on the “land.” Keywords: female; intelligence; men; n.d; sex; vagina; wife
• How it Feels by DeConcini, Ava (2024) - “Someone evidently trying to get my attention while I actively try avoiding them in a fitness class and feeling the need to avoid this person even if that causes a shift in my actions when in reality it shouldn't be my job instead he should just mind his business.” “Sexually assaulted at Stanford frat party — an entire group of guys watched and did nothing” “Stop coming up to me in the gym just to interrupt my set and look at my boobs” “Working out at Stanford gym and having men follow me and sit down to watch me when I’m wearing leggings” “Frat boys touching me unsolicited or following me when I’ve made it clear I’m done with the conversation” “During the first week of freshman year, my boundaries were crossed by a girl I was and am still friends with. I’ve gone on dates, or danced with guys at parties, or hung out with them one on one, and despite realizing that the guy made me feel uncomfortable romantically, I felt like I indebted myself to be hugged or kissed or touched. Keywords: body; feel; guy; sex
• A Pornographic Ethnographic Study: The Lives of Online Sex Workers by Cook, Kennley (2025) - This paper explores how the roles of stigma, trauma, and embodiment of sexualized characters greatly shape the experiences of online sex workers. It was through this subculture project that I also discovered there was little research on the actual lives of porn stars (or as I later learned the preferred term, online sex workers). Keywords: content; industry; media; online; people; performers; personas; pornography; pornophobia; self; sex; sex workers; workers

• Rafiki (2018): Black Joy and Queer Joy as Resistance by Saracco, Isabella (2023) - Queer films with happy endings had been legally shown in Kenya before Rafiki’s release, but queer films about Africans had not (MacArthur, 2020). And what she meant was, African films have been known to be so devastating and so heartbreaking, you’re Keywords: film; joy; kena; rafiki; ziki
• Feminism and The Female Detective in Film by Lawlar, Dakota (2023) - Long-time scholar of detective films, Philippa Gates, explains that female detectives of the 1930s were “masculinized” as they filled the traditionally male- dominated leading roles, such an occurrence showcased in Smart Blonde (1937) where Torchy, an investigative reporter, leaps onto a train in a move reminiscent of a male action hero (Gates, 2009). First analyzing femme fatale in 1940s film noir, this article provides an in-depth discussion on how female detectives in film were seen as dangerous women that needed to be contained. Keywords: character; detective; drew; fatale; femme; film; holmes; mother; nancy; tenant; time; women

• “Safe in the Eye of the Storm”: A 20th Century Adaptation of Safe Slave Spaces in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist by Abbe, Madilyn (2023) - Ultimately, this paper argues that The Intuitionist functions as a crucial critique of the lack of safety afforded Black female bodies in 20th-century urban space. Through the intersections of the Fanny Briggs building, Fanny Briggs (a female slave), and Lila Mae (“a modern city girl”), The Intuitionist recognizes the evasiveness of safety for Black female bodies in contemporary urban space (Whitehead, 1999, p. 189). Keywords: black; body; briggs; fanny; intuitionist; lila; mae; safety; slave; space; whitehead; women
• The Burden of Birth: Depictions of Pregnancy by Women during the Women’s Liberation Movement by Grove, Parker (2023) - Their images of pregnant women not only challenged traditional notions of beauty but also highlighted the lived experiences of women during a time when reproductive Figure 2: Francisco de Goya, La Maja Desnuda, 1800, Oil on canvas, 98 x 191 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain rights were a central concern of the feminist movement. Led by artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Alice Neel, and Judy Chicago, representations of pregnant women were reintroduced into popular Western art as a direct confrontation of the idealized female form (Berthiaud, 2013). Keywords: art; body; chicago; figure; movement; neel; pregnancy; saint; women
• Deeply Rooted: An Analysis of How College-Aged Women View Body Hair and Body Hair Removal by Abrams, Lexi (2024) - I asked these women — who come from different backgrounds, cultures, races, sexualities, and religions — about their personal experiences with body hair and body hair removal and their perceptions of body hair on others, among other questions. Each woman I interviewed – who I will refer to with pseudonyms – had very personal, unique, and sometimes emotional experiences with body hair and body hair removal. Keywords: body; body hair; hair; hair removal; participants; removal; shaving; women
• Skinned by Mitchem, Phoebe (2025) - It’s the ease that comes with practice, with touching skin, picking it to pieces; reading braille in nineteen fissures spread out across a forehead. The tank top was skin flat, holding nothing down. Keywords: body; hair; skin

• Born as Yours, as His by Figueroa, Kyla (2024) - She and the many other girls who made their way to Dateline or Amber Alerts or crinkled and ripped posters on Walmart bulletin boards—college freshmen trying to make it home, wobbling and practically wrestling with their heels against the sidewalk, women with drinks and short skirts and dresses and drinks … hands and pills of others not where they’re supposed to be, deep voices, cat calls, men this close to pulling her into their car, nighttime and stars and dim lights, running across puddles in alleyways with men that chase the trail behind, close like the wet footprints she once owned, or Daylight, watch her, prowl across window sills and peer in because it’s his zoo, Or across the pavement of flea markets, cat eyes, cat calls catch her off guard, Or spot and track her from a bush, blended in with the natural—they’re everywhere you are: Content warning: sexual assault/violence, kidnapping, drink spiking, homicide NYC, Chicago, maybe around the corner, down the street and they’re trying to get me. For example, cishet men tend to feel more safe walking around at night and do not need help o be on-guard at parties. Keywords: assault; kidnapping; men
• Deceptive Sexualities, Nonconformity, and Racial Binaries: An Examination of ‘Appearances’ in America during World War II by Tramsen, Fenja (2024) - Asserting masculinity despite disability Like disabled and emasculated men, wounded veterans threatened American appearances of masculinity, as explored by Sonya Michel in “Danger on the Home Front: As such, the military could only in part control masculine, heterosexual appearances, which were not reflective of the queer reality of many soldiers. Keywords: american; appearances; men; military; sexuality; war; women

• Beneath the Surface: The Struggles of Dismantling Lookism in Looks-Obsessed Korea by Yoon, Katherine (2022) - According to some estimates, between one-fifth and one-third of Korean women have gone under the knife and many more wear full makeup daily (Marx, 2019; Gallup Korea, 2015, p. 5). Korean women voluntarily receive cosmetic surgery with the belief that a more attractive appearance will liberate them from repressive ideology, allowing for greater competitive standing in labor and marriage markets. Keywords: appearance; bae; beauty; corset; feminist; kim; korea; lee; lookism; makeup; media; movement; percent; society; south; surgery; tal; video; women; youtube
• I’d Do Anything For You: Commodification of Women in Today’s Romance Thriller Media by Noel Seo (2023) - For instance, in the opening monologue of Joe stalking Beck in the first season, audiences “hear” Joe’s thoughts and justifications for his immoral actions. Joe states, “I should have seen the signs. Keywords: amy; beck; culture; girl; joe; life; love; male; media; nick; november; self; stalking; women

• Reducing the Risk and Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder in Queer High Schoolers by Axel Rivera-De Leon (2022) - Specifically, LGBTQ+ youth face injustice and inequity when it comes to housing, schooling, parenting, and medical care; all these factors combine into increased risk for cannabis use disorder (CUD) in LGBTQ+ youth. Individual-Level Interventions: Therapy and Medication Options The literature on psychiatric medications to treat cannabis use disorder, particularly in adolescents, is extremely limited and with variable, sometimes even conflicting conclusions. Keywords: abuse; adolescents; cannabis; cannabis use; cud; disorder; health; lgbtq+; risk; substance; use; youth
• The Colonization of the Filipina Mind: Examining Filipina Mental Health Disparities - A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by Salem, Madeleine (2023) - More specifically, aspects of colonial mentality that will be examined in their relation to the mental health disparity afflicting Filipina American women include the unique history of the Philippines’ perception of Filipinas and how this perception was altered by colonization, the Western ascribing of feminine gender roles upon Filipina women as a consequence of this altered perception, and the modern-day prevalence of colonial-influenced Filipino cultural values. Colonization influenced the perception of Filipina women to ascribe to a Western standard of femininity, a standard that may still contribute to the self-sacrificing behaviors of Filipina American women for the sake of their families, but at the expense of their own mental health. Keywords: american; bahala; colonial; depression; family; filipina; health; mental; mentality; symptoms; women
• The Dark Side to Delivery: Illuminating the US Black Maternal Health Crisis by Dare, Iyanu (2025) - During the recent Biden-Harris administration initiatives demonstrating an interest in Black maternal health, they advocate for holistic solutions, including eliminating racial biases, ensuring equitable and patient-centered care, and improving maternal healthcare quality. Historic Maltreatment of Black Women’s Bodies Historically, in the United States, the reproductive rights of Black women were abused, and Black maternal health was neglected. Keywords: bias; cdc; disparities; health; healthcare; medical; mortality; rates; states; u.s; united; women

• Rewriting the Sexual Assault Narrative: Applying the Restorative Justice Framework to Campus Sexual Assault Policy by Kiesewetter, Anna (2023) - The lack of college investigation into sexual assault, pressures of nondisclosure, and frightening prevalence of campus sexual assault couple with the powerful voice of Miller's victim impact statement to demonstrate the necessity of incorporating victim-centered narratives into campus sexual assault policy. Through analyzing 500 stories across ten major American newspapers, O'Boyle & Li (2019) found that when reporting on campus sexual assault, the public media most often frames cases in terms of the moral characters of perpetrators and victims. Keywords: assault; campus; college; justice; miller; perpetrators; restorative; stanford; students; survivors; victims

• Evaluating Hookup Culture on Campus: A Lesbian Separatist Perspective by Ruskey, Megan (2024) - In creating an environment where women must compete with one another for male attention, fraternities impede on women’s ability to cooperate and connect with other women. Although this practice is largely disapproved of, the finding that women frequently gossip about their hookups to other women may be more complex than meets the eye. Keywords: bunch; collective; culture; feminist; furies; hookup; lesbian; practice; relationships; separatist; sexual; women

• (En)Gendering Violence: Masculinity and the Fight for U.S. Airstrikes on Syria by Zhu, Jessy (2022) - Referencing a former op-ed in which journalist Nicholas D. Kristof had said that the only alternative to launching cruise missile strikes was sitting back and doing nothing, Jessica Neuwirth, the founder of women’s rights group Donor Direct Action, wrote that “Syrian women may be able to help reframe the options. It envisions an anti-violence campaign that engages Syrian mothers, wives and all women with help from women in other countries who have played a successful role in the cessation of armed conflict … Bringing the voices of Syrian women to the forefront may give us creative alternatives to consider as we debate intervention” (Neuwirth, 2013). Keywords: assad; gendered; iraq; new; new york; obama; relations; syria; times; war; women; york; york times

• Not Your “Emerald Girl”: In Defense of Tongqi Victimization Discourse by Zhu, Jiahui (2022) - “Marriage Fraud” as a Broken Promise The first major difference between Siyu and most tongqi is her lack of expectations when it comes to what Zhu terms the “ideal package of marriage-love-sex” (Zhu, 2018, p. 1077). Resultingly, Siyu’s life is far removed from the experiences of most tongqi, since she could independently decide to marry Hanfeng at age thirty-eight, and would face minimal social pressure if she were to choose divorce in the future. Keywords: china; fraud; gay; marriage; tongqi; women; zhu
• Come as you are, but Change Once you Enter: The Misalignment between the Admission and the Integration of Homosexual Individuals in Cold-War Era Canada by Mendoza Manalo, Alfonso Ralph (2023) - Sexual Dangers to the Canadian Public: The Sexual Regulation of Homosexuals The ratification of the 1977 Immigration Act did not lead to the full integration of homosexuals in Canada, wherein they are granted equal rights, felt a sense of political and economic belonging, and participated politically aside from possessing legal status as a citizen. 23 Abstract: The Immigration Act of 1952 was the first immigration policy to explicitly mention homosexuals in its list of prohibited persons from immigrating to Canada. Keywords: act; canada; canadian; gay; government; homosexuals; immigration; immigration act; national; security
• Running With a Crown on Your Head: Heterotopic Queer Performances Against the Gay-Bildungsroman by Elrafei, Hayden (2023) - In Wille and Simon’s relationship, Young Royals troubles notions of a top/bottom dynamic between Wille and Simon—transgressions against the generic cast and structure of the gay-bildungsroman cause slippages in this binary opposition. Young Royals initiates this by inverting Heartstopper’s direction of desire: it is Wille—the young, powerful, and masculine Adonis—who falls in love with the out, reserved, and studious Simon (Ambjörn, 2021a). Keywords: bildungsroman; charlie; episode; gay; heartstopper; nick; royals; simon; wille

• Unveiling L'objet petit a in Anaïs Nin’s “The Veiled Woman”: A Lacanian Reading of Femininity in Erotica by Ho, Rosemary (2025) - Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan complicated his theory of the gaze throughout his clinical career and seminars (Rabaté, 2014; Scott, 2015). The resulting dissonance between the ideal ego and the physical self which begins a cycle of identification, gaze, and narcissism. Keywords: desire; erotica; gaze; lacan; lacanian; nin; objet; petit; subject; theory; woman

• Puzzle Box: Chiasmus, Queering, and Subjective Finitude in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser by Goldman, Marley (2025) - Frank thus finds himself dragged between forces as the film unfolds—agonized by continued visibility, yet trapped within the grid he sought to transcend. The chapter will juxtapose Frank’s adhesion to sexual legibility against the sadomasochistic Cenobites’ embrace of inscrutability. Keywords: attic; cenobites; chiasmus; foucault; frank; grid; power; queerness; site; subject

• The Long-Standing Epidemic of Sex Trafficking in San Diego Tribal Communities by Kingsland, Madeleine (2022) - The variety of factors working to perpetuate human trafficking on San Diego reservations is nothing new in the eyes of tribal members. On San Diego reservations, tribal police departments vary drastically in their size and resources distribution in meeting the various demands of their area. Keywords: county; diego; human; native; november; reservations; san; trafficking; tribal; victims

• Mamá y Eva; Mother and Eve by Nelson, Theresa Elizabeth (2022) - ----- Meet the piece: “Mamá y Eva” is a creative fiction coming-of-age story of a Mexican American woman exploring her sexuality within the confines of her memory of a Catholic upbringing. On rest days, yoga and abs. Keywords: day; days; dinner; eva; home; mamá; rafael; way

• Sweet As Birdsong, Soft as Moonlight by Saracco, Gabriella (2023) - Little Lark would always laugh easily and sing loudly, and Little Night would always be by her side, quiet and attentive. Little Night would always have questions, and Little Lark would always set out to answer them. Keywords: friend; girls; lark; night
• Hijab Is Our Right: An Analysis of Muslim Girls’ Veil Ban Protests in India by Anand, Aleena (2023) - She claims that facing oppression due to both their gender and religion, Indian Muslim women who suffer sexual assault are more likely to be ignored or invalidated in media, due to the common stereotype that Muslim women are “accustomed to domestic violence and subordination” (Fadnis, 2022, p. 18). Adding their own voices to the narrative, Indian Muslim women have contributed to Muslim rights protests, including the multigenerational Shaheen Bagh protest in New Delhi opposing India’s 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, which discriminates against Muslim migrants. Keywords: ban; girls; india; karnataka; muslim; protest; rights; veil; women

• The Siren Song of the Desert:Feminized Desert, Nature, and Water as Cultural Critique in Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain by Sandeen, Lucy (2024) - The Land of Little Rain was just the beginning of Austin's long career of advocacy for equitable distribution of water resources (Witschi, 2002, p. 125). In The Land of Little Rain, Austin depicts a feminized landscape by combining Western realism with magical, spiritual elements, and uses this feminist perspective in her cultural critiques of water resource issues. Keywords: adams; austin; desert; land; rain; water; west

• Ghazal to Womanhood: Poem by Divya Mehrish (2022) - Microsoft Word - CE+Ghazal+to+Womanhood.docx Ghazal to Womanhood Divya Mehrish, Stanford ’25 I dig for salvation in the crater of womb— pelvis pounding temple empty of God, swallowed in unbroken womb. Seed sunk into desiccated soil, fruit sinks head into walls of womb. Keywords: womb

• I am her by Perronne, Anna (2022) - ----- Meet the piece: “I am her” is inspired by the character La Manuela from the novel “El Lugar Sin Limites” by José Donoso. La Manuela is a co-owner of a brothel and a transgender woman, but other characters (including her daughter and the narrator) reject her identity and consider her a man. Keywords: manuela

• Incontestable Ranking of The Breasts of Naked Stanford Sculptures by Hendry, Surya Hendry (2022) - Institutional secrets have often revolved around breasts, and these breasts themselves are vast and institutional: tough rock, bulbous and distinct. The universal woman eats herself alive, breast by rotting breast. Keywords: breasts

• No One Can Hear Our Flag Waving so We Slash It Through the Air Again Again Again Again Again by Wallace, Zoe (2022) - Her sobs have been quaking in our chests for weeks now please HEL P every morning they shred my sleep like a tattered wife beater. i heard his laughter at her sobs, voice cracking HEL P HEL P HEL P P LEASE a mantra to forget or maybe a prayer, but please forgive me if I can’t understand the god of predators if i can’t hear him in her muffled cries see him through our blurred vision smell him through the gunpowder feel him as bloody entitlement stains my fingerprints Miss-- Slow down. Keywords: hel

• Edinburgh as a Machine: Reclamation, Resistance, and the Formative Fiction by Jayne Abraham (2024) - These three elements of Edinburgh work in tandem to create a distinct reading experience. It then explores the stakes of creating a formative novel in the literary age of suspicion in which we exist, as well as within the context of the multiplistic expectations that readers place upon Asian American writers. Keywords: american; chee; edinburgh; fee; novel; readers

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Created: 2025-12-23