This was a project for a queer rhetorics course. The purpose of this project was to explore my own gender representations through multimodal composition. I was inspired by modern queer zines, digital fiction practices, and the queer communities I have been part of throughout my adulthood.
I created this project for the Radical Writes Conference at Arkansas State University spring of 2017. This memoir-style piece is intended to challenge the traditional notions of qualitative research to argue that lived experiences are valid spaces for research, inquiry, and theorizing in academia.
This project serves as an opportunity for students to explore relationships to their personal cultures and the objects that shape those cultures. In asking students to define this relationship, this assignment designates a space for students to both articulate their positionality and the rhetorical importance of objects
This piece was developed as a page in a zine centered on the theme of "Crush." The image is water color with black ink, and the poem was printed and pasted onto the image. The poem is meant to compare the shared intimacies between fast food consumption and sexual relationships