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Unveiling the Power Dynamics of Rape Culture: Heteronormative Scripts, Consent, and the Reinforcement of Systemic Oppression
Rape culture refers to a cultural environment where rape and sexual assaults are normalized, neutralized, and justified through specific...
Xinrui Zhu
Jan 214 min read
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Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, and Racial Injustice: Eugenics, Medicalization, and the Path to Reproductive Justice
Eugenics and Racial Injustice Eugenics operates as a discursive practice by medicalizing, or pathologizing, racialized bodies through the...
Xinrui Zhu
Jan 74 min read
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Sexuality and Aging: Deconstructing Power, Bodily Meaning, and the Fiction of Incompatibility
How do different discourses construct the seemingly incompatible relationship between sexuality and aging? In what ways do these...
Xinrui Zhu
Dec 23, 20245 min read
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Toxic Masculinity: A Relational, Contingent, Yet Perceived Fixed Social Reality
Toxic masculinity is defined through its toughness, anti-feminity, and centrality of power. From the binary opposition with feminity, we...
Xinrui Zhu
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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Queer Representation: paradoxes in representation
The early discourse surrounding homosexuality—and by extension, modern “queerness”—has been socially constructed as the deviant...
Xinrui Zhu
Nov 25, 20244 min read
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<Book Review> ACE: an asexual narrative challenging dominant ideologies through nuanced intersectional approaches
Angela Chen’s “Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex” delves into the complexities of asexuality,...
Xinrui Zhu
Nov 13, 20244 min read
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Breaking Boundaries: The Tragic Consequences of Gender Policing in the Life of Rose Boy
Rose Boy: Individual Nonconformity and Social Hostility The protagonist in the documentary, Yeh Yung-Chih, was a 15-year-old Taiwanese...
Xinrui Zhu
Oct 15, 20246 min read
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Navigating the Paradoxes: How Ballroom Culture Both Challenges and Reinforces Heteronormativity
Ferocious, Undaunting, and Cunty. These were my initial impressions of the ballroom scene after watching three sessions of POSE, a TV...
Xinrui Zhu
Jul 19, 20246 min read
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Philosophical Reflection: How Constructionism and Post-Structuralism “Construct” Who We Are.
For me, determining the question “Who am I?” is complex and often confusing. I see several commonalities and various discrepancies when...
Xinrui Zhu
Jul 10, 20243 min read
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Empower Your Inner Diva: My First Vogue Femme Class Experience
Introduction Throughout 2022, I witnessed a growing number of public presentations where queer individuals proudly embraced their...
Xinrui Zhu
Jul 3, 20244 min read
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