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Title: Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care
Description: Through legislation and social code, modern-day Nigeria has become a hostile and dangerous country for queer people. As a queer person of the Nigerian diaspora, I struggle to hold both my “queer” and “Nigerian” identities because they seem contradictory. In this paper, I detail my journey reckoning with these two seemingly dissonant parts of my identity. In my endeavor to find communal belonging in Nigeria and its diaspora, I turn to the archive of pre-colonial Nigeria to discover if the nation of my ancestry was always hostile towards queer people. In particular, I try to uncover the violence British colonialism introduced to Nigeria. In this paper, I draw on the work of Saidiya Hartman to contextualize and guide my research and archivally-driven quest for belonging. As I have matured into myself, I have grappled with the intersections of my Nigerian-American and queer identities. Recently, I learned how Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation," a method for being attuned to and coping with archival gaps, can be a tool for survival when multiple realities conflict (Hartman, 2008). I practice critical fabulation in my venture to grapple with my “contradicting” identities by researching and drawing on the history of gender in Nigeria to imagine a more inclusive nation. Further, in this essay, I co-opt W. E. B. Du Bois’ framework of double consciousness to describe the internal conflict I feel regarding the friction between my Nigerian heritage and my queer identity because of the violence modern-day Nigeria inflicts upon queer people (Du Bois, 2007). Throughout this auto-ethnography, I discuss my double consciousness that stems from the intersectional oppressive structures in my life, such as patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia. Additionally, in this paper, I demonstrate how the act of critical fabulation allows me to reconnect with myself and my (pre-colonial) Nigerian heritage to imagine and create spaces where queer Nigerians and I can belong (Hartman, 2008, p. 11).
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:34246

Title: Cross-Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
Description: This video is designed for students preparing to study abroad and contains information about the differences in nonverbal communication.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13273

Title: Cumulative Effects of Systematic Discrimination Against Transgender Americans
Description: Aurora Quinn-Elmore's submission to the 2012 Peace Studies Student Conference
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:101

Title: Cycles, Soundscapes, An Electronic Musician’s Guide to Kinetic Sound Sculpture: The Conceptual Development of Cycles, Cycles and Soundscapes, Sound Sculpture and Electronic Music
Description: Consists of the Music 495 Senior Project proposal and the products of the project including the program from the public performance, movies, photos, music and text.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3859

Title: Darwin's rEvolution, Darwin's Revolution
Description: The catalog for an exhibition of the same name.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3425

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003
Description: Student papers for Fall 2003 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:4251

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004
Description: Student papers for Fall 2004 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:4252

Title: Divinity and Power: Gendered Constructions of Identity in Portraits of Marie de Medici and Henry IV
Description: This essay compares 17th century portraits of Marie de Medici and those of her husband Henry IV of France in the context of gender performativity.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31910

Title: Dona nobis pacem, Ensemble recital
Description: Program from concert on December 9, 2006, with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tormis and Gorecki.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3480

Title: Eating Graphic History: Japanese American Pioneers of the California Food Revolution
Description: Today, Americans are more aware than ever of their food choices—where the food comes from, its locality, how it was produced, and its health quotient. But back in the 1970s, local food movements were largely nonexistent. It was the Japanese Americans living in California who began advocating for local, organic farming—and despite systemic racism, were able to make America better.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26669