Representation Matters

From music artists like Lil Nas X to TV dramas like Euphoria, the LGBTQ+ community, and their stories and experiences, are more visible now in popular culture than ever before. In many ways the rise in LGBTQ+ representation parallels the movement for LGBTQ+ representation in the 1970’s. What was happening to culture and politics during the […]

Non-Native news media too often fail to offer authentic representation of Indigenous identity, issues, and individuals. Media representations in the modern moment fall prey to a legacy of stereotyping established by long-ago editors and publishers, in part due to issues around naming and labeling, but, most importantly, because Native people are not given a voice […]

Many people are confused by the seeming influx of new terms to describe gender and sexuality that have emerged in the last decade: nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, pansexual, polysexual, and so on. But fluid conceptions of gender and sexuality (those that fall outside the binary concepts of male/female or heterosexual/homosexual) have been around for a long time. And […]

The Art of Drag -- a performance of exaggerated gender expression intended to highlight the performative aspect of gender --has never been more popular or controversial than it is today. This program, presented by ASU faculty member and Drag Story Hour Arizona president David Boyles and local drag legend Felicia Minor, will discuss the history […]

The Art of Drag -- a performance of exaggerated gender expression intended to highlight the performative aspect of gender --has never been more popular or controversial than it is today. In this two-part program, David Boyles, ASU Professor and Drag Story Hour Arizona President, will discuss the history of drag, and legendary and award-winning performer […]