This project is made up of several different research projects, listed in the sidebar. To get back to this page, click on the HOME link at the bottom of the bar.
The first is titled Asian Visibility in Queer Film Culture. The original project was a discussion on how to label films with queer female relationships from cultures that may not use words such as queer or lesbian. This part of the site is based primarily on two films, Fire (India, 1996) and Intimates (Hong Kong, 1997). The website has been expanded in an attempt to create awareness of queer female films outside of the US. Thus, it will include a section with some analysis on several other Asian films that I have personally viewed.
The second, The Chicano/a Latino/a Resource Page, is less theoretical as it is just a compilation of organizations, books (mostly fiction), magazines and films. But hopefully this supports the achieving of visibility for communities of color within the queer community.
My third project is entitled, The Struggle for Equality: Transgender Marriage. For the web, this paper on the recent explosion of visibility for the same-sex marriage debate has been split into two sites, Queer Marriage and Transgender Marriage, in order to more clearly distinguish between the same-sex marriage debate and the complications for transgender folks attempting marital bliss within the heterosexualized institution of marriage, while also making connections between the two battles.
My final project is on the first mainstream cable television show (though not network television) for queer women, Showtime's lesbian show, The L Word.
The L Word: Love it or Leave it is a site that glimpses at one of the biggest struggles in queer visibility, the weighing of quality versus quantity, through a popular culture lens. This site is a thorough analysis of the show through both the characters and stories, but also the marketing of the show and the image Showtime and Ilene Chaiken (producer) may beattempting to give not only the show, but lesbians in general.
