Body Boundaries at the Dawn of a New Millenium

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Body Boundaries at the Dawn of a New Millenium Ren e g o ti a t in g Body Boundaries at the Dawn of a New Millenium Ruth H, Kerkham Renegotiating Body Boundaries at the Dawn of a New Millenium Ruth H. Kerkham Thesis submitted for Masters of Philosophical Foundations (Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Cultural Studies) Institute for Christian Studies August 1998 To Anthony Edwards for the dreams we share, and in memory o f Keith Edwards for fostering those dreams. Tab!© of Contents Preface Bubble Fairies............................................................................................................................j. Introduction Bodies o f the New Millenium May Not Stand Up................................................................ 1 “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”................................................................................................................. 1 Vampires: Vector’s of Category Transformations................................................................................................3 Skin and Blood: Agitator’s of Old Frontiers......................................................................................................... 4 Renegotiation: Hosting a Para Site..........................................................................................................................8 Chapter 1 Performative Bodies: The Parodic Parody o f Luce Irigaray and Cindy Sherman.............................................. 11 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................11 Irigaray’s Methodological Use of Mimetic Bodies............................................................................................ 13 -Seduction at Play.................................................................................................................... 13 -Mimicry’s Outcry................................................................................................................... 14 -Vulvamorphic Mimesis.......................................................................................................... 16 -Resilience that Matters...........................................................................................................18 -Reappropriating Chora...........................................................................................................20 Cindy Sherman’s Methodological Use of Performative Bodies........................................................................ 23 -The Woman I Know: Cindy Sherman’s Film Stills............................................................ 24 -The Master Copy: Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits.......................................................26 -The Prosthetic Truth: Cindy Sherman’s Sex Pictures........................................................29 Conclusion................................................................................................................................................................31 Chapter 2 Pervious Bodies: Skin Slippage in Kiki Smith Ss Sculpture............................................................................. 35 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................35 Body Abject/Abject Bodies................................................................................................................................... 37 The Abject: Disturbing Order..........................................................................................37 Kiki Smith’s Disruption of Order...................................................................................38 Fluidity as Resistance: Demythologizing Semen................................................................................................. 42 Julia Kristeva: Polluting and Non-Polluting Fluids......................................................42 Luce Irigaray’s Parody of Female Fluidity....................................................................43 Aristotle’s Mythology of Semen.....................................................................................45 Elizabeth Grosz: Pulling Back the Sheath.....................................................................46 Skin Slippage in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture..............................................................................................................49 Smith’s Gender Slippage of Fluid Bodies.....................................................................49 Smith’s Slippage of Polluting and Non-Polluting Fluids............................................. 53 Smith’s Slippage of Inside and Outside......................................................................... 57 Conclusion................................................................................................................................................................60 Chapter 3 Pedigree Bodies: Wearing the Skin of the Other................................................................................................................. 64 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................64 Donna Haraway: Race within a Constructed Biological Discourse..................................................................65 Bloodline: Racial Construction and the One-Drop Rule.................................................................................... 67 Bad Blood: Western Feminism in Africa............................................................................................................ 70 Artistic Representation of the Black Female Body............................................................................................ 75 The Black Body in Contemporary South African Art........................................................................................78 Exoticizing the Other....................................................................................................... 78 The Deconstruction of Race: Wearing the Skin of the Other..................................... 81 Gendered Criticism..........................................................................................................92 Chapter 4 Posth uman_upload@extend. com: The Body as Clickable Icon......................................................................................................................104 Introduction........................................................................................................................................................... 104 Cyborgs Enter One By One................................................................................................................................. 107 Cyberfeminism/Cyborgian Feminism - Is there a Difference?............................................................ ..........109 Virtuality: A Space of Slippage for Multiple Selves........................................................................................ 115 The Body as Clickable Icon: Man or Mouse?...................................................................................................118 Stelarc: An Utopian View of Technology..........................................................................................................120 The Body as Host for Techno-Matter.......................................................................... 120 Art as Parasite.................................................................................................................123 A Nervous System of Global Hookups........................................................................124 Orlan: Parodying the Utopian View of Technology......................................................................................... 126 A Cyber-Muse in Stitches..............................................................................................126 Stitching: Man’s Work on the Cutting Edge............................................................... 129 A Stitch in the Side: Dionysian Parody of Pain..........................................................134 Conclusion...................................................................................................................... 135 Conclusion Re-membering Bodies..................................................................................................................................142 Bibliograph y„............................................................................................................147 Appendix A Unzipped............................................................................................................................................................. 154 List of illustrations Figure 1. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #13. 1978 Black and White Photograph Figure 2 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #23. 1978 Black and White Photograph Figure 3 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #47. 1979 Black and White Photograph Figure 4 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #3. 1979 Black and White Photograph Figure 5 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #30. 1979 Black and White Photograph Figure 6 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #2. 1977 Black and White Photograph Figure 7 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #9. 1978 Black and White Photograph Figure 8 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #216. 1989 Colour Photograph Figure 9 Cindy Sherman, Untitled
Recommended publications
  • On the Origin of Consciousness - a Personal Experience on the Interaction of Mind and Body
    Universal Journal of Psychology 4(1): 47-62, 2016 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2016.040105 On the Origin of Consciousness - A Personal Experience on the Interaction of Mind and Body Borje Peratt Humanism and Knowledge Academy, Sweden Copyright © 2016 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The title is, of course, an allusion to Darwin’s changed my view of mind and consciousness. The cliché that classic book “On the Origin of Species.” Here we are “it is not the destination but the journey that is important” concerned with the question of whether there is actually an was given a new meaning. Driving off the road gave me the origin of consciousness or if consciousness is eternal and its opportunity to consider a new field of research. The availability limited by physical senses. A car crash in 1987 circumstances of the crash gave rise to many questions. opened my mind to the possibility of consciousness existing It was early one Saturday morning and I was standing with independent of the senses i.e. independent of the brain and my hockey bag in the hall. The rest of the family was asleep. body. The circumstances surrounding the accident involve a I moved carefully in the silent house and walked towards the variety of extrasensory perceptions, which, up to that time, I front door but didn’t even reach the inner door. It was as if a had ignored because of my scepticism.
    [Show full text]
  • Volume 5 Fuchs Et Al
    Feldenkrais Research Journal • volume 5 (2016) ​ ​ ​ Hypothesis and Theory A conversation about Leibgedächtnis (body memory) ​ ​ Thomas Fuchs Dr. med., Dr. phil, Karl Jaspers­Professor für Philosophische Grundlagen der Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, University of Heidelberg, Germany Roger Russell MA, PT, Feldenkrais Practitioner Feldenkraiszentrum Heidelberg, Germany Ulla Schläfke Feldenkrais Practitioner Feldenkraiszentrum Heidelberg, Germany Sabina Graf­Pointner Dipl. Soz. Päd, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Erlangen, Germany Keywords Leibgedächtnis, body memory, Feldenkrais Method, embodiment, emotions, phenomenological psychology ​ Correspondence: Roger Russell: feldenkraiszentrum­hd@t­online.de ​ ​ Copyright ©: The copyright for this paper remains with the author(s). ​ Please cite: (First published in the) Feldenkrais Research Journal, volume 5; 2016. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ® ® ® ® Service marks: The terms Feldenkrais ,​ Feldenkrais Method ,​ Awareness Through Movement ,​ ATM ,​ ​ ® ® ​ ​ ® ​ ​ Functional Integration ,​ and FI a​ re service marked terms of the International Feldenkrais ​ Federation (IFF) ​ ​ ​ ​ and Feldenkrais professional guilds and associations in many countries. In keeping with academic conventions, they will not be service marked in the entire text as may be required in nonacademic use, but only for the first and most prominent use of the terms. In recognition that these phrases are formal terms referring to specific practices within the Method, and to the Method as a whole, capitalization of
    [Show full text]
  • Toward a Theological Response to Prostitution: Listening to the Voices of Women Affected by Prostitution and of Selected Church Leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Middlesex University Research Repository Toward a Theological Response to Prostitution: Listening to the Voices of Women Affected by Prostitution and of Selected Church Leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Jennifer Andrea Singh OCMS, Ph.D. August 2018 ABSTRACT This feminist, qualitative research project explores how the voices of women affected by prostitution in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and of selected evangelical church leaders in that city, could contribute to a life- affirming theological response to prostitution. The thesis engages sociological and theological sources to interpret the data gathered; contextual Bible study sessions provided access to the women’s voices, and semi-structured interviews revealed church leaders’ perspectives. During conversations with the women, six core themes emerged, reflecting their contextual understanding of the social and theological ramifications of prostitution: their entrance into prostitution; God; sin; humanity (Christian anthropology); justice; and the church. The women articulated that: 1) prostitution was a means of survival; 2) God is a protective figure in their lives; 3) sin is equated with prostitution and uncleanliness; 4) humanity is rejecting; 5) injustice is a normalised experience; and 6) they are unwelcome in the church due to their status as ‘sinners,’ and have few expectations that the Christian church or its leaders would help them exit prostitution. These themes reportedly resonated with interviewed church leaders, who expressed empathy for the women. Bringing both sets of voices together in a discussion of the Story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), however, revealed several theological deficiencies held by the evangelical church that currently impede the formation of a life-affirming theological response to prostitution.
    [Show full text]
  • Healing the Body-Mind in Heart-Centered Therapies
    Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies, 2006, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 75-137 © 2006 Heart-Centered Therapies Association Healing the Body-Mind in Heart-Centered Therapies David Hartman, MSW and Diane Zimberoff, M.A. * Abstract: Some of the most profound influences on human behavior may be found within the deep evolutionary streams of human nature, flowing through the hormonal and nervous systems, regulated by the instinctual “reptilian brain” (limbic system). These archaic, archetypal patterns, when denied or thwarted or undischarged, split off from the whole self and become trapped in the body. That is where we find them, and how we heal them. We assess the damaging effects of traumatic response in the womb and in childhood. If a person tends toward hyperarousal (fight/flight) response that is not effectively discharged, his/her body will tend to utilize parasympathetic dissociation as a defensive effort to achieve the semblance of homeostasis. If a person tends toward hyporarousal (freeze) response that is not effectively discharged, his/her body will tend to utilize sympathetic dissociation to achieve the semblance of homeostasis. The area of the body that is not feeling (parasympathetic dissociation) can be equally as important an indicator of stored trauma as body parts that do feel (sympathetic dissociation). We review the Theory of Structural Dissociation proposed by Nijenhuis as a way to understand the common alternation between re-experiencing trauma and detachment from or unawareness of the trauma. The primary emotions are regulated neurally. The emotional operating systems proposed by Panksepp can be divided into the primordial set (FEAR, RAGE, and SEEKING) basic to survival; and the social set (LUST, PANIC, CARE and PLAY) characteristic of mammals, which depend on the creation and maintenance of social bonds for survival.
    [Show full text]
  • Shamanic Wisdom, Parapsychological Research and a Transpersonal View: a Cross-Cultural Perspective Larissa Vilenskaya Psi Research
    International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Volume 15 | Issue 3 Article 5 9-1-1996 Shamanic Wisdom, Parapsychological Research and a Transpersonal View: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Larissa Vilenskaya Psi Research Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies Part of the Philosophy Commons, Psychology Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Vilenskaya, L. (1996). Vilenskaya, L. (1996). Shamanic wisdom, parapsychological research and a transpersonal view: A cross-cultural perspective. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 15(3), 30–55.. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 15 (3). Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol15/iss3/5 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Newsletters at Digital Commons @ CIIS. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Transpersonal Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ CIIS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SHAMANIC WISDOM, PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND A TRANSPERSONAL VIEW: A CROSS-CULTURAL ' PERSPECTIVE LARISSA VILENSKAYA PSI RESEARCH MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA, USA There in the unbiased ether our essences balance against star weights hurled at the just now trembling scales. The ecstasy of life lives at this edge­ the body's memory of its immutable homeland. -Osip Mandelstam (1967, p. 124) PART I. THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE: IN PURSUIT OF SLAVIC WISDOM TEACHINGS Upon the shores of afar sea A mighty green oak grows, And day and night a learned cat Walks round it on a golden chain.
    [Show full text]
  • Marygold Manor DJ List
    Page 1 of 143 Marygold Manor 4974 songs, 12.9 days, 31.82 GB Name Artist Time Genre Take On Me A-ah 3:52 Pop (fast) Take On Me a-Ha 3:51 Rock Twenty Years Later Aaron Lines 4:46 Country Dancing Queen Abba 3:52 Disco Dancing Queen Abba 3:51 Disco Fernando ABBA 4:15 Rock/Pop Mamma Mia ABBA 3:29 Rock/Pop You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC 3:30 Rock You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC 3:30 Rock You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC 3:31 Rock AC/DC Mix AC/DC 5:35 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ACDC 3:51 Rock/Pop Thunderstruck ACDC 4:52 Rock Jailbreak ACDC 4:42 Rock/Pop New York Groove Ace Frehley 3:04 Rock/Pop All That She Wants (start @ :08) Ace Of Base 3:27 Dance (fast) Beautiful Life Ace Of Base 3:41 Dance (fast) The Sign Ace Of Base 3:09 Pop (fast) Wonderful Adam Ant 4:23 Rock Theme from Mission Impossible Adam Clayton/Larry Mull… 3:27 Soundtrack Ghost Town Adam Lambert 3:28 Pop (slow) Mad World Adam Lambert 3:04 Pop For Your Entertainment Adam Lambert 3:35 Dance (fast) Nirvana Adam Lambert 4:23 I Wanna Grow Old With You (edit) Adam Sandler 2:05 Pop (slow) I Wanna Grow Old With You (start @ 0:28) Adam Sandler 2:44 Pop (slow) Hello Adele 4:56 Pop Make You Feel My Love Adele 3:32 Pop (slow) Chasing Pavements Adele 3:34 Make You Feel My Love Adele 3:32 Pop Make You Feel My Love Adele 3:32 Pop Rolling in the Deep Adele 3:48 Blue-eyed soul Marygold Manor Page 2 of 143 Name Artist Time Genre Someone Like You Adele 4:45 Blue-eyed soul Rumour Has It Adele 3:44 Pop (fast) Sweet Emotion Aerosmith 5:09 Rock (slow) I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Cold Start)
    [Show full text]
  • Interviews with Energy Healers: Perspectives on Trauma and Practice
    St. Catherine University SOPHIA Master of Arts in Holistic Health Studies Research Papers Holistic Health Studies 5-2019 Interviews with Energy Healers: Perspectives on Trauma and Practice Dawn Ebeling St. Catherine University, [email protected] Allison Runchey St. Catherine University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ma_hhs Part of the Alternative and Complementary Medicine Commons Recommended Citation Ebeling, Dawn and Runchey, Allison. (2019). Interviews with Energy Healers: Perspectives on Trauma and Practice. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ma_hhs/22 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Holistic Health Studies at SOPHIA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Arts in Holistic Health Studies Research Papers by an authorized administrator of SOPHIA. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Running head: PERSPECTIVES ON TRAUMA AND PRACTICE Interviews with Energy Healers: Perspectives on Trauma and Practice Dawn Ebeling and Allison Runchey St. Catherine University May 15, 2019 PERSPECTIVES ON TRAUMA AND PRACTICE ii Acknowledgements Thank you to our research mentor Dr. Carol Geisler and all those who shared their perspectives as part of the development of our project, especially Laure Schwartz, Pamela Searles, and each of our research classmates. We gratefully acknowledge the support and love of our families and friends who encouraged us at every step along the winding path of this research journey. We also want to express incredible gratitude to all of the participants for sharing their time, experiences, and wisdom. PERSPECTIVES ON TRAUMA AND PRACTICE iii Dedication In honor of those who have experienced trauma and the energy healers who hold them in the light, that they may each find wholeness and resilience within.
    [Show full text]
  • Meet Nasty Habit Cherry Bomb Review Mental Illness In
    MEET NASTY HABIT CHERRY BOMB REVIEW MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY 20 WATTS | 1 01 // THE CITY - THE 1975 02 // YESTERDAY - ATMOSPHERE 03 // GRINDIN’ - CLIPSE 04 // AFRICA - TOTO 05 // GRAVITY - TURNSTILE 06 // CLUSH - ISLES & GLACIERS 07 // R U MINE? - ARCTIC MONKEYS 08 // CLARK GABLE - POSTAL SERVICE 09 // CAROLINA - SEU JORGE 10 // NO ROOM IN FRAME - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 11 // JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL - CARRIE UNDERWOOD 12 // A WALK - TYCHO 13 // SEDATED - HOZIER 14 // HEY YA! - OUTKAST 15 // MY BODY - YOUNG THE GIANT 16 // DREAMS - FLEETWOOD MAC 17 // PAST LIVES - BØRNS 18 // PLEASE DON’T - LEO STANARD TWEET @20_WATTS WHAT 19 // TOTALLY FUCKED - JONATHAN GROFF YOU’RE LISTENING TO! 20 // TUBTHUMPING - CHUMBAWAMBA Cover Photo by Adam Gendler 2 | 20 WATTS 20 WATTS | 3 20 WAT TSSPRING 2015 WE ASKED: WHAT IS YOUR EMOJI STORY? LYNDSEY JIMENEZ RIKKI SCHNEIDERMAN ADAM GENDLER JANE DEPGEN PHIL DECICCA EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR MULTIMEDIA CREATIVE DIRECTOR HEAD DESIGNER MIKEY LIGHT SAM HENKEN JACKIE FRERE TIFFANY GOMEZ JOEY COSCO JAKE LIBASSI FEATURES EDITOR ASSISTANT FEATURES FRONT OF BOOK PHOTO EDITOR DIGITAL DIRECTOR WEB EDITOR A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS: KAITLIN GRENIER COLE HOCK TOMMY ENDE KENNY ENDE ERIN SINGLETON CAROLYN SAXTON KATIE CANETE JIM COLEMAN WILL SKALMOSKI COPY EDITOR REVIEWS + PUBLICIST PUBLISHER MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 4 | 20 WATTS 20 WATTS | 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 08 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 10 THE FIVE 11 EAR TO THE GROUND 12 ON THE GRIND 13 PLAYLIST // 20 WATTS GOES ABROAD 15 BACK FROM THE DEAD 16 DROP THE MIC // SEXUALITY IN MUSIC 18 A DAY IN THE LIFE W/ NASTY HABIT 22 WHAT IS EDM? 24 2015: THE YEAR OF HIP-HOP 26 REVIEW // CHERRY BOMB 28 Q&A // RICKY SMITH 31 HEADSPACE 34 DIY, YOU WON’T 38 FUSION FRENZY 42 BACK OF BOOK LETTER 6 | 20 WATTS 20 WATTS | 7 There’s a lot that goes into making a magazine — a lot of arguments, a lot of cuts, a whole lotta shit that you probably don’t even think about as you’re holding this book in your hands right now.
    [Show full text]
  • Contextual Predictability Norms for Pairs of Words Differing in a Single Letter
    H I LLINI S UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. ~66' Technical Report No. 260 CONTEXTUAL PREDICTABILITY NORMS FOR PAIRS OF WORDS DIFFERING IN A SINGLE LETTER Harry E. Blanchard, George W. McConkie and David Zola University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 1982 Center for the Study of Reading TECHNICAL REPORTS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 51 Gerty Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820 BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238 [LtHE LIBRARY OF TH-I The National Institute of Education U.S. Department of Education UNIVE.SITY OF ILL:S Washington. D.C. 20208 IT ^a -- CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF READING Technical Report No. 260 CONTEXTUAL PREDICTABILITY' NORMS FOR PAIRS OF WORDS DIFFERING IN A SINGLE LETTER Harry E. Blanchard, George W. McConkie and David Zola University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 1982 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 51 Gerty Drive 50 Moulton Street Champaign, Illinois 61820. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238 This research was conducted under grants MH 32884 and MH 33408 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the first author, and National Institute of Education contract HEW-NIE-C-400-76-0116 to the Center for the Study of Reading. Copies of this report can be obtained by writing to George W. McConkie, Center for the Study of Reading, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign, Illinois 61820. EDITORIAL BOARD William Nagy and Stephen Wilhite Co--Editors Harry Blanchard Anne Hay Charlotte Blomeyer Asghar Iran-Nejad Nancy Bryant Margi Laff Avon Crismore Terence Turner Meg Sallagher Paul Wilson Abstract Predictability Norms Four hundred sixty-seven pairs of short texts were written.
    [Show full text]
  • 99! Throughout His Many Decades of Struggle and Imprisonment, Nelson
    HUMAN DIGNITY AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE POST APARTHEID STATE SPENCER WOLFF* Throughout his many decades of struggle and imprisonment, Nelson Mandela clung to a demand for human dignity for all South Africans. In the wake of his passing, it might seem pertinent to ask what human dignity represents in South Africa today. Many of us would be surprised by the answer. Focusing on three recent controversies, The Citizen 1978 Pty Ltd v McBride,1 Le Roux v Dey2 and Zuma v Goodman Gallery,3 this article analyses how South Africa’s courts and politicians have begun to promote a notion of human dignity that privileges ‘Personality Rights’ — the protection of reputation, honour and privacy — over freedom of expression. If human dignity was invoked under apartheid to demand the right to publicly denounce an oppressive political system, over the last decade South Africa’s jurists have drawn on a line of German constitutional jurisprudence to repurpose the dignity principle to shield public figures from criticism. Even more worrying, this sudden enthusiasm for ‘Personality Rights’ has gone hand in hand with efforts by the government to undermine constitutional protections for an independent press and judiciary. For the moment, however, South Africa’s Constitutional Court (‘SACC’) has yet to embrace the full rigour of ‘Personality’ protections embodied in German law. This article contends that the towering legacy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (‘TRC’) has restrained the Court. As a body tasked with ‘restor[ing] the human and civil dignity of victims “by granting them an opportunity to relate their own accounts of the violations of which they are the victim”’,4 the TRC articulated an interpretation of human dignity that was speech-empowering instead of speech-restrictive.
    [Show full text]
  • Whiskey Strings Tour
    K k ROCKTOBER 2017 K g VOL. 29 #9 H WOWHALL.ORGk artist, and newly graduated with (Sara Bareilles, Tori Amos) and a Bachelors of Music Composition Benny Cassette (Kanye West) in from Cornish College of the Arts, 2014. Her smash single “Secrets” she had begun to establish herself launched to No. 1 on the Billboard MARY around the Seattle area performing Dance charts, and was certified slam poetry and fusing a talk- RIAA Gold in 2015. The New singing style into her intimate York Times called her debut album performances. She received a “refreshing and severely personal.” LAMBERT phone call from a friend who was All though the success, Mary working with Macklemore and had her inner struggles. Ryan Lewis on their debut album Lambert was raised in an The Heist. Macklemore and Lewis abusive home, attempted suicide IS A were struggling to write a chorus at 17, turned to drugs and alcohol for their new song, a marriage- before being diagnosed with equality anthem called “Same bipolar disorder, and survived Love”. Lambert had three hours multiple sexual assaults throughout BABE to write the hook, and the result her childhood. With that list of was the transcendent and beautiful horrors, you wouldn’t expect Mary chorus to Macklemore & Ryan to be disarmingly joyful, but she (AND SO ARE YOU) Lewis’ triple-platinum hit “Same charms effortlessly, and the effect Love”, which Lambert wrote from on her audience is bewitching. her vantage point of being both a She describes her performances Christian and a lesbian. as, “safe spaces where crying is Writing and singing the hook encouraged.” Mary Lambert says, led to two Grammy nominations “My entire prerogative is about for “Song Of The Year” and connection, about being present, By Maya Vagner Mal Blum.
    [Show full text]
  • UWG's Psychology Department 50Th Anniversary
    The West GeorgianEst. 1934 Volume 72, Edition Five October 2 - October 8, 2017 In this I’M FIRED? LOCKED AND WOLVES RULE Trump comments LOADED HOCO edition... rekindle anthem Campus Carry Football team protests laws this semester bounces back with victory / / PAGE 2 / / PAGE 3 / / PAGE 7 THE BIG FIVE- OH UWG’s Psychology Department 50th Anniversary Megan Bohlander UWG is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “Every person who has stepped into a Webmaster Department of Psychology this week from Oct.5- psychology classroom at UWG over the last half 7. Alumni, faculty, students and friends are century has been impacted in some way by the encouraged to join this special event in Melson creative, experimental, and uniquely humanistic Hall honoring the historic department. focus of this department,” said Reber. “We want “The 50th anniversary to come together to celebrate that which con- Photo Courtesy of: Jeffrey Reber celebration is an oppor- nects all of us and has positively impacted the tunity for people to look university and the broader community.” back on their experiences Fellow psychology members have creat- with the department and ed a tight bond due to their shared experience. to share how they have This connection among members was instilled applied what they have by first ever chairman Mike Arons in 1967. learned from their con- Through his startup of psychology education on tact with psychology at campus, the school created something remark- UWG in their professional able for students to be a part of. The sense of and personal lives,” said community that came out of this department Psychology Department through Arons is what makes this anniversary chair, Jeffrey Reber.
    [Show full text]