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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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  • February 23, 2025

    Temptation and Excess in ‘Goblin Market

    Preface: This essay stirred self-doubt and questionable career paths due to its final grade. While I have made a few tweaks to this paper, I felt it was necessary to release a piece that invoked excitement and curiosity within my work at university. My relationship with criticsm has mirrored a complexity of my love for…

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  • February 7, 2025

    165 Women Raped and Burned Alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Chris Milosi / EPA, The Coversation February 6thCivil unrest has broken out in Goma, a Congolian city on the border of Rwanda, for the past month. The M23 has returned to the masses, where the rebel group continues to battle the government’s military, constructing the city streets into battlegrounds. Ignoring the peace treaties made between

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  • December 4, 2024

    A Brief Look Into the Bodies: 2 Conference with Medicine 360 

    [Not all speakers have been included, yet their presentations, insights, and findings in the medical world do not go unappreciated. Their names are: Mike Scrase, ‘Imperfect Superhuman’ and author of Zip, Matt Morgan ‘Kissing a Frog,’ Nathan Filer ‘The Imaginary Patient’ and the wonderful film titled, ‘We Need To Talk About Death’] [A big thanks

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  • November 15, 2024

    The Death of America.

    Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever stop trying to make the world a better place”

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  • November 1, 2024

    Annotation of ‘In Memoriam A.H.H’ by Lord Tennyson

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  • October 14, 2024

    Social Class and Justice demonstrated in Bessie Smith’s ‘Washwoman’s Blues’: How Jazz Followed the Lower Class During the Harlem Renaissance.

    “The jazz man must lose his identity even as he finds it.”

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  • August 15, 2024

    Notes On 1-2

    In any type of introduction to this question, empathetical and/or moral justification would need to be lessened or void. Addressing the objective of Money and Sex, transactional commodification of the body would be the only present source of argument, a battling of skin to skin, a questioning of whose is worth more. As a woman,

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  • August 15, 2024

    The Necessary Pages: A Short June Edition

    Orbiting Jupiter, Professor Gary D Schmidt Devastation. Original in thought, Schmidt’s attention to the emotional embodies a human-like yearning, where desires to fairy-tale endings must be done within such short chapters. You outline your future with children whose grief is profound in limited pages, whose words shock the body and guard the truth, until getting

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  • May 21, 2024

    A Sin-Eater: The Death Of Eve.

    How brutal of man to bite the body their youth — they must like the taste of their own blood; it allows them to swallow their very corruption.

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