
Sprinkle was originally conceived in 2007 as a collection of student works from the McGill Sexual Diversity Studies department. We hope to widen this scope a bit, but continue to produce a queer-positive, critical journal that seeks to challenge the normative experiences that are often privileged within our society. In this vein, we hope to draw attention to queer history and experience as well as other issues of gender and sexuality, subjects not often addressed within classroom curricula. This journal hopes to draw from and appeal to a wide audience, and people of numerous identities and backgrounds. Sprinkle aims to lend legitimacy to the thoughts and experiences of young people, and produce an engaging publication.
Table of Contents Vol. 11
5 Editorial: Sprinkle throughout the Years
Emma Sturm
7 Editorial: Continuing Our Work
Elizabeth Adan
Rethinking Classic Queer Theory
10 The Only Thing We Have to Queer Is Queer Itself: Naming the Cultural Machine of Radical Sexual Politics
Cassiopeia Mulholland-London
23 Does Racial Triangulation Unravel Intersectionality?
Samantha Keng
Revisiting Classic Feminist Literature and
Literary Systems
36 A Forbidden Act: Illicit Sex and the Colonial Heterosexual Matrix
Rain Tiller
48 Banning Blackness: Race, Gender-Based Violence, and Classroom Censorship
Amelia Roskin-Frazee
58 The Legacy of the Feminist Bookstore Network: Lesbianism’s Indelible Bookstore Beginnings
Hannah Quire
Integrating Trans Identities into Knowledge Production
72 (C)locked Up: Transgender Women in the American Prison System
Krystina Millar
87 A Gender-Non-Conforming Method: Trans* Methodologies for Trans* Subjects
ilia Forkin
Transnational Feminism
98 Decolonizing Gender-Based Violence Advocacy: The Development of an Undocumented Survivor Resource Training
Zulema Aleman
129 Necrocapitalism and U.S. Imperialism: The Gulf War, Hurricane Katrina, Palestine, Gentrification, and Police Violence
Gianna Bissa
142 Cyber Fantasies: Rina Sawayama, Asian Feminism, and Techno-Orientalism in the Age of Neoliberalism
June Kuoch & Allegro Wang
159 The Challenges LGBT+ Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Face in the United States
Yordanos Molla
170 Acknowledgements
Table of Contents Vol. 10
Table of Contents
8 Editorial: Celebrating Sprinkle Jane Lehr
Beyond LGBTQ: Re-creating Queer Identities
- 11 Creative Submission: I Return to the Place I Ran From
Ian Gillespie
- 13 LGBTQ People of Color and Digital Spaces of Empowerment
Eden Bonjo
- 25 Bodies without Organs (BwO) and the Self: Reading Leo Bersani through Deleuze & Guattari
Jing Hao Liong
- 36 Standing Under a Sign to Which One Does Not Belong: Desire and (Dis)identification in Catherine Opie’s Self-Portrait Series.
Jenna June
- 46 Shame and the Struggle of Sexual Identity
Brooke English
Conscious Consumption: Intersectional Media Studies
- 55 Creative Submission: For the Androgynous
Elias Fulmer
- 56 Exploiting Non-Western Women in Media Representation
Gabrielle Miller
- 66 Enriching the Story: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Literature
Adrienne Whisman
- 77 La Negra Tiene Tumbao: Multimodal Resistance Strategies of Afro-Latinxs and Other Queer Constructions
Kassandra Colón Cisneros
- 88 Misrepresentation of Women of Color in Western Media
Nicole C. Schutte
Intersectionality in Action
- 103 Creative Submission: Freedom?
Ian Gillespie
- 105 Ambiguous Identities: Gesturing Towards an Intersectional Conception of Freedom
Shaun Soman
- 116 A Pre-Medical Student’s Reconciliation of Feminist Narratives Regarding Women’s Health: A Consideration of Perspectives on Childbirth in the U.S.
Laura Clayton
- 129 Revolutionizing Space: A Case Study on Accessibility and Comfort
Jennifer MacMartin
- 137 The Historical Roots of Stereotypes of Black Women Established by the Old South
Cristina Tenreiro
- 148 The Complex Intersections of Being a Latina Immigrant Survivor: How Multiple Systems of Oppression Enable Intimate Partner Violence
Zulema Aleman
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents Vol. 9
Table of Contents
- Editorial: Changing Directions
Alex Castro & Sam Shrader - Editorial: On Collaboration and Community
Elizabeth J. Meyer & Jane Lehr
Queering Sports: Transnational Perspectives on Athletics
- The Development of Women’s Professional Soccer Globally
Allison Aggarwal - The Gay-Friendly Games: Homonationalism and the Olympics
Julianna Duholke
Hidden Discourses: Gender and Sexuality in Medicine, Science, and Technology
- The Silent Victims: HIV in the Deaf Community
Hali Kohls - Medicating Gender
Emma Hahn - Where Does Sexual Orientation Come From? Essentialism, Social Constructivism, and the Limits of Existing Epigenetic Research
Matt Klepfer
Unexplored Radical Potentials in Literature, History, and Society
- Let My People Go: A Reconceptualization of Black Exodus Discourses Using The Color Purple
Isaac Seessel - The Corset: Constriction or Liberation?
Amanda Lieb - A Woman Born Twice: Esther Greenwood’s Reconstruction of the Female Identity in a Pervasively Patriarchal 1950’s America
Taylor Steinbeck
Planting the Seed: Gendered Experiences in Early Education
- Binary Ever After: Gender Representation of Non- Human & Non-Animal Characters in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out
Sarah Hethershaw - Gender Discrimination in the Classroom: How Teaching Policies Can Help Close the Gap
Olivia Wycoff
Beyond Essentialism: Criticisms of Mainstream Feminism
- Reproductive Rights as a Tactic of Necropolitics under Neoimperialism
Haley Kimberli - Western Nations’ Use of the Malala Fund
Austin Greitz - Intersectionality in the Case of Cece McDonald
Austin Greitz - Queering Feminism: Rejecting Imperialist Methods of Silencing
Mikayla Burress
Acknowledgements