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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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