GK Natishan

@kairoticgood

PhD candidate in Rhetoric at Virginia Tech. Stress baker. She/her. Queer. Specializing in gender, policy, and military rhetorics.

Joined February 2019

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  1. 6 hours ago

    Visual rhetorics of fatness and weight loss! The transformative narrative as something to be aspired to. Hegemonic purpose of these narratives

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  2. 6 hours ago

    “The first episode of Insatiable engages in every negative trope of fatness” and the problem is solved through violence and starvation :) GET EM LYLA BYERS

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Fan art as active and affective critique of narratives and character treatment - great work by Hanna Mayfield engaging with fan responses to fridging

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    Speaking to “demobilization through non-profitization,” Spade points out how institutional structures co-opt liberatory structures through the evacuation of the meaning of the symbol. Their example? The NYPD:

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    8 hours ago

    “This moment is a matter where we don’t have much time to waste” —Dean Spade At a conference where most acknowledge the precarity of the moment we’re in, also (oddly) hopeful in what we (still) can do.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    dystopian symbols as a form of protest and resistance - the use of the Handmaid bonnet and cape; more than that, the networked role of resistance in the creation of memes and counter-voices, counter-stories.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    "What is the connection between surveillance and fake news?" - amazing question, especially in relation to our online lives. Social media collects data and acts as a repository for data. We offer it simply by engaging. "Softer, more ubiquitous surveillance" described by Lyon

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  8. 7 hours ago

    "Calling facts into question is sufficient to undermine truth;" rhetorics of truth, fact, and belief converge and diverge until a less literate public has few reliable ways to challenge. When it is repeated and reiterated, it *feels* real.

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  9. 7 hours ago

    Media control as a tool of surveillance, control of public opinion, and representation of "undesirables" - Trump administration is doing all this and more: the removal of information and a steady stream of lies and misrepresentation on a number of topics

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  10. 7 hours ago

    Last panel, let's go! "Fake News and Reality TV: How Media and Surveillance Technologies in The Hunger Games, The Handmaid’s Tale, and 1984 Stopped Being Fiction in 2016" with Karl Surkan from MIT

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  11. 8 hours ago

    "Part of the liberal framework is to pretend the antagonisms aren't there." PREACH 🙌

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  12. 8 hours ago

    "When targeted people claim the means of survival it's very threatening to the status quo." Dean Spade Q&A

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    12 hours ago

    Parrish: "Women are only considered over-prescribed when we use Men as the baseline."

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    Spade’s understanding of mobilization is important here in that it involves being constantly curious about the ways in which we are implicated in the marginalization of other people. It doesn’t stop with one act.

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  15. 9 hours ago

    I have my snacks and my internet connection: ready for Dean Spade's keynote at "Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Queer and Trans Survival"

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  16. 11 hours ago

    "Queering a Hetero World" with Iris Farrou - what does pop culture tell us about queer lives, how does it present/represent queer bodies? Given what just happened on and what happens in popular media ALL THE TIME this is wildly relevant.

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  17. 12 hours ago

    Or, y'know @ me!

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  18. 12 hours ago

    Watching presentations these past two days has made me want to embrace the clicker. I hate being tethered to a podium. Someday I will technology better.

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  19. 12 hours ago

    Anyone out there at have thoughts/feelings/opinions about Tumblr? I'd love to talk - come find me!

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    I like when people try to correct me when I say “disabled.” “You don’t mean that, I don’t see you as that...” Yes that is what tf I mean. What are you going to do to make society more accessible so that I’m not disabled by it? “...”

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