Kathleen Kirvin

It is presumed that the producers of RuPaul’s Drag Race have but a limited interest “in personal journeys of identity construction,” and that over time it could become more about the creativity and art of the performance alone.

Hegemonic Masculinity, Subordinate Masculinity, Emphasized Femininity, and Marginalized Femininity

Definitions of femininity as it relates to men differ from the compliant model of “emphasized femininity” to a resistant and opposite manifestation to a mix of the two that is accommodating, resistant, and yielding. The fluidity of the definitions…[Read more]

“Night to his Day”:
The Social Construction of Gender

All societies have socially constructed gender roles built into the general social structure, but sex and gender aren’t necessarily symmetrical.

Color Blind Ideology is a Form of Racism
Monnica T Williams Ph.D. | 2011 Psychology Today

The way that color blindness is perceived by some and felt by others indicates to me that the inability to communicate, more than anything else, is the problem. At some point, we have to stop allowing words to assume so much power, or we will arrive at a…[Read more]

The common thread that connects riots in America across time is that they are a result of police brutality – products of a centuries-long process.

Race and Racial Identity Are Social Constructs
By Angela Onwuachi-Willig

A society in which there are increasing numbers of mixed marriages and growing multiracial populations doesn’t necessarily guarantee the most promising futures for people of African descent.

Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition
By F. James Davis

Categories of race are…[Read more]

Combined with equal status, the same goals, and no real opposition, positive dissonance can lead to attitude change in individuals if the positivity is prolonged and real.

Negative beliefs + conflicting new and positive beliefs = positive experiences.

An important part of communication is the character identification the audience feels toward certain characters that temporarily lifts them out of their ordinary existences. As a huge part of audience involvement, identification creation is vital in persuation, thus implying that identification with characters is desireable in most areas of…[Read more]

Casting black Latina/o actors in motion pictures involves all the politics of political correctness, and makes the triangulation of gender, race, and ethics ever harder to work around. While casting directors for motion pictures react to demands for authenticity of race when hiring, this limits them from hiring minorities to roles of white characters.