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Romance fiction is porn, but it’s a particular type of women-oriented feminist porn with a telos, or narrative goal. Romance fiction is teleological, building and driving toward this climax of the narrative. This narrative goal, I argue, is the happily-ever-after moment best encapsulated in the hero’s declaration of love. In other words, the moment where one most sees romantic fiction as pornography is, paradoxically, not in the sex scenes themselves… Instead, one sees romantic fiction as porn in the happily-ever-after ending, especially in that key moment of climax when the hero declares his love.
Catherine M. Roach (Happily Ever After, pg 101)
A feminist is a woman (or person of any gender) who dares in writing to explore thoughts, desires, and fantasies that run contrary to traditional descriptions of how a woman is supposed to be.
Catherine M. Roach (Happily Ever After, pg 99)
If feminist porn is first and foremost about highlighting women’s sexual pleasure and about the politics of producing that pleasure… then no cultural production better matches this mandate than romantic fiction… Central to romance fiction, as to feminist porn, is the depiction not simply of sexual activity but of women’s sexual satisfaction
Catherine M. Roach (Happily Ever After, pg 94)
There is… a powerful disincentive to identify with women in mainstream media: one is likely to be ambushed by sexism ranging from narrative irrelevance to depictions of graphic sexual violence and murder.
Francesca Coppa, “An Editing Room of One’s Own: Vidding as Women’s Work.”
Insofar as the public sphere becomes writable, the university classroom needs some protection; a certain contingent erasure from the public sphere. While students ought to do work that is alive in the world– indeed, they report feeling more engaged when they do so– there is also an important need for a buffer zone, since undergraduate education gives students the freedom to take risks, to experiment, and to fail.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis”
We argue that the radicality of the digital humanities is the potential it offers to expand our understanding to the vertical plane, or more precisely, planes of research. In vertical interdisciplinarity, there is a rich layering in both the method and the practice of teaching and scholarship, and this poses challenges to the very discursive categories employed. The disruptive components are the creative, aesthetic, and non-alphabetic elements, which once deployed vertically within a field radically transform its formal properties. If horizontal strategies make us imagine new narrative lines within a field, then the vertical approach forces us to rethink the narrator, what narrative form could be, and how we think, reflect, critique and express.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis”
The term ‘interdisciplinary’ typically refers to a kind of additive component, history plus literature, history plus art, and so forth. The perspective is essentially a horizontal one, linking fields without any fundamental change to the formal structures of any one discipline.
Virginia Kuhn & Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis.”
Okay, its 2015 and I’m still loving the 80s redux.
Good morning! Here, have a mini-Scissor Sisters dance party. ;)