Archive for the ‘Eli Bierman’ Category
Reimagined French Postcards
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
For my creative project I chose to create a re-interpretation of the small pornographic photographs that were circulated around the turn of the century and referred to as “French Postcards.” There were a few of these on display during our visit to the Museum of Sex, some depicting women in lingerie, others showing two people […]
Reimagined French Postcards
Posted in Creative Projects, Deploying Sexuality, Eli Bierman | 1 Comment »
Needlework or a Ball Game: The conflation of sex and gender and the oversimplification of them both
Monday, May 6th, 2013
Cal’s story traces the lines of her life through the well-trodden path of a young girl’s development, suddenly shifting towards the well-worn path of adolescent boys, but stops and hovers in the middle. He did not have to struggle to break gender boundaries. In a very real sense, it came naturally. Cal’s story is harder […]
Needlework or a Ball Game: The conflation of sex and gender and the oversimplification of them both
Tags: Christine Jorgenson, intersex, Middlesex, Power
Posted in Eli Bierman, May 7 | 1 Comment »
The Myth of Eugenides, or Mr. Good Genes
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Genes tell the mythology of the contemporary age. Cal Eugenides traces his personal mythology through an unlikely series of events that conspire to create the perfect circumstances to produce Cal exactly as he/she is. This tale is spun like most other myths, with fibers of truth and patterns of exaggeration, but it reflects a very […]
The Myth of Eugenides, or Mr. Good Genes
Tags: Eugenides, Genetics, Middlesex, Mythology, Narrative, Science
Posted in April 30, Eli Bierman | No Comments »
Most At-risk Group for AIDS: Relationships or People?
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
My friend recently found out that his boyfriend was diagnosed with HIV, and I was surprised by how he talked about it. “HIV isn’t really a big deal anymore. You can live with it, and the government pays your rent. But it kills you psychologically.” He spoke about the idea of living with the knowledge […]
Most At-risk Group for AIDS: Relationships or People?
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, HIV, Kushner, Power
Posted in April 23, Eli Bierman | 1 Comment »
Scientia Sexualis in African-American Communities
Monday, April 15th, 2013
As The Scarlett Letter was written in the Victorian Era about the Puritan Era, Sula was written about an older period of time through the lens of an more recent one. To what extent might Sula be superficially set in an older period of time, but actually concerned with society at the time the book […]
Scientia Sexualis in African-American Communities
Tags: African-American, Power, Scientia-Sexualis, slavery, Sula
Posted in April 16, Eli Bierman | No Comments »
Girls in the Movies; Movies in the Girls
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Media is a far more essential part of life now than it has been ever before. It is harder to separate it from the rest of our lives. Media consumption is not an activity anymore. It is not usually something you go out to do, or set aside time to do. It fills all of […]
Girls in the Movies; Movies in the Girls
Tags: Culture, Insidious Infiltration, Internet, Lolita, Media, movies
Posted in April 9, Eli Bierman | 1 Comment »
The Sanctuary Which is Not
Monday, March 18th, 2013
The truth is in the details. Whence did Humbert Humbert’s strange and unceasing desire for nymphets arise? Reading the first part of Lolita, I found myself frequently looking back to pick up details I had missed. Despite the depth of information about Humbert’s fascination, many other things (like the physical setting and other mundane details) […]
The Sanctuary Which is Not
Tags: Desire, Lolita, Nabokov, Nymphets, Yearning, Young Girls
Posted in Eli Bierman, March 19 | No Comments »
Sexual Darwinism
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Walking trough the animal sex exhibit in MoSex, I noticed one wall close to the entrance dedicated to Charles Darwin. This was, aside from the artist’s statement, the only purely conceptual panel in the exhibit. Darwin, who lived during the Victorian era, is widely credited as the founder of the theory of evolution through natural […]
Sexual Darwinism
Tags: Darwin, Evolution, Foucault, MoSex, Museums, Natural Selection
Posted in Eli Bierman, March 12 | 3 Comments »
Free Love: Gratis or Libre?
Monday, March 4th, 2013
What are we running away from, and what are we running towards in our efforts to change social ideas of sexuality? Or, perhaps in more Foucauldian terms, who are we running circles around? This week’s readings bring new light to the realm of sexuality in Victorian America. The era we commonly define by the repression […]
Free Love: Gratis or Libre?
Tags: Free Love, Marriage, sex, Victorian Era
Posted in Eli Bierman, March 5 | 2 Comments »
Passionlessness as a Sacrificial Tool of Subversion
Monday, February 25th, 2013
In Puritan society, women are compelled to sin through their passion. Hester, losing all passion, in one ironic sense loses her ties to sin. She learns power over herself, and power to define her own code of ethics. This, as Lee pointed out, is distinct from the biblical code of morality that rules Puritan society. […]
Passionlessness as a Sacrificial Tool of Subversion
Tags: feminism, passion, Passionlessness, sin, Victorian
Posted in Eli Bierman, February 26 | 2 Comments »