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Item CAMERAS COMPLICATING QUEER CRIMINALS: Analyzing Representations of LGBTQIA+ Juveniles in Netflix's Girls Incarcerated(MAPC, The University of Tampa, 2021-08) Burton, Nia; Alisha Menzies, Ph.D.This research will consider media as public pedagogy that informs the experiences of Black LGBTQIA+ youth confined to correctional settings using concepts of adultification and respectability seen in Girls Incarcerated: Young & Locked Up. The paper addresses how the representation of Black queer girls’ intersectional identity shapes their depicted experiences in the correctional facility setting, as seen in the show. The textual analysis conducted reveals that Girls Incarcerated creates a complicated narrative for young Black LGBTQIA+ women. It almost moves to consider larger implications of these representations.Item Desperate and Desired Housewife: An autoethnographic textual analysis of Black motherhood from The Real Housewives of Atlanta(MAPC, The University of Tampa, 2021-08) Rodriguez, Cindy; Alisha Menzies, Ph.D.This research is intended to shed light on the relationship between Black women struggling with fertility issues, specifically uterine fibroids, and their acts of performance in popular media balancing desire and desperation. Using intersectionality theory as a backdrop, the purpose of this research is to bring awareness to how popular media uses the politics of respectability to frame the idea of desperation through the desire of Black motherhood. Through the qualitative methods of autoethnography and textual analysis, I juxtapose examples from my personal, lived experiences against scenes from the Real Housewives of Atlanta. The results of my analyses strengthen the presence of how Black women, in popular media, as desperate, bolstered by levels of shame, in their desire to become mothers. In conclusion, I challenge the medical field, society, and popular media to be more supportive in helping meet the motherly desires of Black women burdened with uterine fibroids while simultaneously removing the perception of the desperate, Black woman.Item My Fandom and Me(MAPC, The University of Tampa, 2021-08) Gibson, Genoa; Alisha Menzies, Ph.D.This study aims to investigate the changing idea of what it means to be a fan in recent years through an interconnected web of social media relationships and decreasing authenticity factors. By contextually analyzing an existing fandom, The BeyHive, and combining the research and scholarship of pop culture, mediated pop culture, fandom, and social media, I can contextually analyze fandom, celebrity, and authenticity to consider the changing nature of fandom culture. The analysis concluded that while celebrity culture and social media continue to grow as a part of our society, it also damages the existence of fandom culture as we know it. By looking at the cycling effects mediated pop culture, celebrity, and fandom culture have on each other, we have seen how celebrities shape our behaviors as we, in turn, shape theirs.Item The Path to Inclusivity and Accessibility: A Look into the Hillsborough County Public School Visual Art 1 Curriculum, and How it Affects Students with Visual Impairments(MAPC, The University of Tampa, 2021-08) Brownlow, Laura; Alisha Menzies, Ph.D.This study explored the relationship between the Hillsborough County Public Schools Visual Art 1 curriculum, and the unlikeliness of students with visual impairments participating in art elective classes across the county. Research was done through the autoethnographic narrative storytelling, of a volunteer’s experience working with students with visual impairments on arts and crafts. Along with autoethnography, an in-depth textual analysis was done on the Visual Art 1 curriculum. In this investigation the organization and language within the curriculum was studied. The results of this study connect the studied elements of the curriculum with themes of inclusivity, accessibility, assumed ability, and more. Theoretical, societal, and academic implications are discussed in the context of this research.