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"Crack the Whip and Tell Me What You Hear"​

  • How the taboo culture of BDSM practices can stop people from understanding the effective communication skills the practice can bring and the strong consensual boundaries the practice plays around with. ​

Go ahead. Click one.

Societal Analysis

"Anti-"

  • By analyzing the properties of "Anti-" through the forms of art, film, and literature, the steps to understanding the balance of intention and negation can emerge and better clear the truth lurking from beneath.

"The Bonds That Hold Us"

  • Shulamith Firestone and Robert C. Solomon attempt to explain their theories on romantic love and how the idea of oppression comes into play, whether it be intrapersonal, interpersonal, or both.

"Casual Conversation"

  • Satire about the domination of capitalism crushing individuality, shown through a short story/video game like setting. 

"Explicit Conversations"

  • Discussion of Thomas Nagel's point of view on perversion by analyzing his article "Sexual Perversion."

"Our Bonded Will"

  • An examination of Harry Frankfurt's novel The Reasons of Love. 

"To Friend Or Not To Friend"

  • Answering the question of whether or not a bad person can attain and retain a friendship with the help of Aristotle's book Nicomaciean Ethics. 

Book Analysis

"Kingdom of Absolute and Truth"

  • Understanding the balance between illusion and reality by analyzing Angela Carter's novel The Magic Toyshop. 

"Moral Pornographer"

  • By analyzing the different ways authors of fairy tales, contemporary and bygone, have displayed suggestive sexual content throughout their works, whether it be a warning or act of defiance, allows a much bigger conversation to come to fruition about the rights of women to own their own bodies and become more than just an object.

"On With The Main Point"

  • A discussion of how the supernatural can help a reader to better understand different experiences using Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. 

"A River of Connectivity and Chaos"

  • Metafiction is characterized by the self-conscious examination of fiction in its own form. Robert Coover tests this concept by stretching his fiction, specifically The Magic Poker, to its thinnest, and most basic form -- words on paper stitched together with a little chaos.

"Metafiction"

  • Expanding on the theory of metafiction by applying Robert Coover's The Babysitter and Donald Barthelme's The Balloon to Robert Scholes definition of metafiction. 

"The Monster Within"

  • A short story mixed with research in order to examine the women of Shakespeare's late plays, Ophelia, Desdemona, and Hermione and how the fear of their sexuality gave men the excuse to murder. â€‹

Film Analysis

"For the Ones that Need it the Most"

  • Looking at connectivity as a base platform, the sex in the movie Shortbus is not erotic, but liberating, and the three main characters, Sofia, Severin, and James, are all stuck between needing to feel satisfaction, forgiveness, and understanding what it means to be intimate.

"An Analysis of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Documentary Reassemblage"​

  • Using Edward W. Said’s novel, Orientalism, and Oyèrónké Oyewùmi’s chapter on “Colonizing Bodies and Minds,” within the novel The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, the documentary Reassemblage becomes a discussion about colonized boundaries and how the people documented become an “other.” That perception is what strips their culture and their people.

"Neil Jordan and Angela Carter’s A Company of Wolves as a Representation of the Erotic Body"

  • An analysis of the movie A Company of Wolves through the lens of Laura Mulvey’s article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” and others who have analyzed Carter’s and Jordan’s work. Trying to center the movie’s question of who has the right to own someone else and if those bodies can transcend objectification.

"Curdled Milk is Just as Sweet"

  • Examining the movie Milk and understanding how Harvey Milk helped the gay liberation movement. 

"Easy Living"

  • With the movie Carol, internal and external expectations concerning one’s role are challenged through molding oneself to uniformity, performing, and questioning the importance of family versus the individual.

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