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  • August 15, 2024

    The Necessary Pages: August [PDF] edition And Deserted Drafts. [And a Some Connections between Texts.]

    Judith Butler, Gender Trouble — Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions (1990) “… separating, purifying, demarcating, and punishing transgressions.” One of her most influential works, Butler’s theoretical perception of gender and the body is captivating by the single use of cultural inscription. A guide between the works of Sontag and Fellows / Razack seen much later, Butler’s

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  • August 18, 2023

    A Distaste for Porn: How Men’s Fantasies are Ruining Women’s Lives; The Sexual War Against Women

    The worst name anyone can be called is a cunt. The best thing a cunt can be is small and unobtrusive.

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  • July 11, 2023

    Review: The Woman Destroyed

    If you begin to question such intimate, particular moments of looking at clocks too closely, reminiscing of clothes too tight, and phone calls never placed, Beauvoir might just be the perfect medication.

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  • January 9, 2026

    Does the Child Know Best?: How Literacy Excels in Child’s Play

    Term 5, Myth and Creativity Freud’s psychoanalysis of child’s play was arguably a prominent source within the field of children studies, yet the work was in dire need of improvement. The neurologist satisfied his claim through a categorical dichotomy; the ‘phantasies’ that the adult engaged with, which would have transpired from the imaginative play of

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  • December 29, 2025

    Medea and Nyasha

    Writing and Crit., Paris 2023 I have been going through feedback from years prior, it comes with the changing of the years, or the manifestations boards we pry from the backrooms of pinterest. Anyway, I stumbled upon an email from a previous professor on a final I wrote almost three years ago — a favourite

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  • December 17, 2025

    Colonial Oppression, Resistance and Revenge in a South Asian Diaspora: The Role of English in Post Colonial Translations

    Introduction  The belly of the world1 relies on the inevitability of language. The concept of The Self, its material relations imposed upon the body, the limits and traditions aroused by a collective, sustained a moralizing, passionate, and tainted reliance on the voice. We have allocated a multiplicity of words to navigate our loudest quality: morphology,

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  • December 2, 2025

    Is Violence Against Nature Superior to Human-On-Human Violence?

      Histories of Violence, Term 5 Key words: Anthropocene, Climate Change, Environment, Violence, Ecocriticism  Lewis and Maslin, a pair of Professors in Geology at UCL, present a paper in MacMillian as ‘Defining the Anthropocene1’ aimed at consolidating the ‘possible Anthropocene-specific’ dates, alongside ‘evidence-based decisions’ which would elucidate the consequence of this Anthropocene Epoch. A scientific

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  • October 16, 2025

    Re: Re: ‘A Woman’s Issue’ by Margaret Atwood [with notes].

    Persecution saturates the neck of young women. This damp exterior, crushed between jagged ribs and the unbecoming ill-remains of fat, will become explicit, R-rated, subverted to a perversion of this body, her body. Forget about the care we show intent — it is now stretched, disjointed; an awkward veil of femininty (lace and all.) [I

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  • September 8, 2025

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    Sometimes, briefly or as though I know what it means to dream, the leaves begin to shift each time I am near, as if the tree could fathom the soul of my name. There was time spent defining energy (the soul gliding amongst tissues and muscles and nerve endings as my mouth once did on

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  • April 22, 2025

    Social Media As a Witness to Trauma: How Modernity Shaped a Precarious Voice for Palestinians During Genocide

    Grade: Upper Second Class, Trauma and Literature, Term 3 *This paper has been altered since the grade has been received, to formally capture the feedback given. Please note the paper was also written within the time frame of September-December of 2024, and therefore the statistics, pictures, and comments could reflect incorrect data. In this instance,

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  • April 17, 2025

    A Greek Mimesis of Persian Tragedy

    Grade: 65, 2:1; Drama, Term 4 (2500 words) *Paper has not been altered after feedback has been given. Tragedy is socially dramatized and linguistically undefined, positioning the polis1 toward ‘arbitrary and sterile2’ definitions, with little effect. The contextualisation of human suffering is mimetically presented within Aeschylus Persians, as Greek interpretation strives to imitate Persian political

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  • April 12, 2025

    Roman Approach to ‘Other’ Cults

    Grade: A*, First-Class Honours / Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire, Term 4 Roman cults centred their religious, political, and social beliefs, around an anthropocentric system, as it captured ritualistic practices and lavish temples, establishing a metaphysical hierarchy. As Rome expanded into East and Western territories, the integration of regional ‘Other’ cults, their campaigns struggled

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  • March 13, 2025

    Crisis, Intellects & Love.

    Editor to Me Re: ‘Crisis’ Amanda, Carry the child-like wonder of possibility on your left hip, graze fingertips upon a melting, egregious split your lips are capable of — that which holds back weathered teeth and a home to hold laughter. Imitate the dictionary upon your dresser — be malleable and forget the definition of

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