Andrew CardA Holistic Approach to Combating Exclusionary Acts in “Excluded” and “The Argonauts”In Julia Serano’s Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, there are concerns about…May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
Andrew CardConcrete Roles and Undercover Agents: Performativity in “Weekend” and “Naked Lunch”Judith Butler is a philosopher and theorist renown for her work regarding gender and sexuality, and the means through which gender and…May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
Andrew CardPlacing Yourself in the Movies: Alexander Doty and “The Women”Auteur theory and the nature of authorship have been topics dogging film theorists and critics for decades now: the former refers to how…May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
Andrew Card“Pariah,” “Tangerine,” and the Particularities of IntersectionalityIntersectionality is a term often used to describe the ways in which different marginalized peoples — women, African-Americans…May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
Andrew Card“Cruising” the Charmed Circle Down the HierarchyThe regulations to which sex workers and minors are subjected ultimately are only a couple of examples encompassed within the dichotomy of…May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
Andrew CardLesbian Existences in “Fire” and “Carol”One of the key concepts in queer theory, which also happens to intersect with feminist theory with regards to the agency of women, is the…Feb 22, 2017Feb 22, 2017
Andrew CardCamp, Power, “Rocky Horror”Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’” and Michel Foucault’s “The Deployment of Sexuality” (from his History of Sexuality Volume 1) are both…Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017
Andrew CardA Review of ‘Queer: A Graphic History’I came into Queer: A Graphic History — a graphic novel primer on queer theory — with some prior knowledge regarding feminist, gender, and…Jan 31, 2017Jan 31, 2017