Category: Fall 2024
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STEM Stereotypes Through the Lens of Generative Artificial Intelligence
in Fall 2024Academically, commercially, and societally, attention towards artificial intelligence has increased exponentially in the past decade. Between 2010 and 2019, academic papers about artificial intelligence increased 20-fold to about 20,000 publications per year, with the most popular subcategory of artificial intelligence being machine learning—the technology behind popular generative AI tools (i.e., those AI tools designed to…
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Shapeshifting and Superhero Comics: Loki as an Agent of Gender Deconstruction
in Fall 2024Introduction Superhero comic books and their surrounding culture have long been a space of tension between forces that enforce heterosexual norms, and those that oppose them. Beginning in the 1930s, comic books were sold as a cheap, “lowbrow” form of mass entertainment marketed toward the working poor (De Dauw 3). From the start, comic books…
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The Beauty of Trans Love
in Fall 2024My Body is Mine my body is a temple dedicated to myself altar of venus anointed by mars these fully human hands so powerfully divine as to create this power which turned grapes into wine turned me into mine my body is a temple dedicated to the fully human, because the fully human is fully…