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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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Education and Communication: Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
Description: We examined the relation between sex and relationship education, communication, and prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:221

Title: Exploring the Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory, Reforms of Sexuality and Identity: Minority Representations in Film
Description: In this paper, I map out an analysis of two queer films: Bruce LaBruce’s The Raspberry Reich (2004) and Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando (1981). I examine both films’ representations of revolutionary desire and contextualize these images within the framework of the antisocial turn in queer theory.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:169

Title: Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy (1956): The Power Struggles between France and West Africa
Description: The French language in Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy reveals the power struggles between the colonizers and the colonized that took place in French West Africa.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:23297

Title: Food Security Barriers for Rural Food Pantry Clients
Description: The purpose of my research was to identify the barriers that rural food pantries face in trying to provide food security to their clients.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:13272

Title: Grinnellians in the Era of Disunion
Description: This exhibit explores not only how Grinnellians engaged in the actual war, and how they were involved in the debate over slavery before the war and how they commemorated veterans after the War.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:3061