Tech Tools 3385

Tools of Tech

Catherine Arredondo: Lady Anna’s Day at the Movies

Though years have gone by since the publication of Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well Of Loneliness”, many readers prerogative of…

Aspen Murillo: Lord Henry becomes a Sugar Daddy

Wilde uses Lord Henry Wotton to express a variety of critiques on English society and culture of his day. However,…

Megan Kelly: Is RuPaul’s Drag Race the Greatest Minoritizing Force on Queer Television?

Since the Puritans first colonized America and disseminated their hyper conservative brand of Christianity, America has not been friendly to…

Joshua Villegas: The Queer Identity and it’s search for completion

At the center of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, Orlando, the symbolism behind the titular protagonist’s gender transformation highlights the dynamic…

Andrew Jones: Hookup Culture from Victorian Times to Grindr

Have you ever considered the evolution of hookup culture? Anyone who has read The Picture of Dorian Gray would agree…

Justin Wood: Normalizing the Minority

When looking back at the history of LGBTQ culture, literature, etc. the main goal of the figureheads and writers of…

Ariel D. Robinson: Zora’s 50th Birthday

Langston Hughes recants Zora Neale Hurston’s 50th birthday as a night they celebrated with Ricky Nugent and a young James Baldwin at Pulse Nightclub.

Kori Audet: It’s My Closet and I’ll Come Out if I Want To

Queer literature, like any literature, will always reflect the societal attitudes toward the subject at the time of publication. It’s…

Elizabeth Arnold: Orlando and the Women of Litchfield, Netflix ‘n’ Chill

So, what if the famed Feminist author, Virginia Woolf’s genderqueer character Orlando, spent an evening bingeing on “Orange Is the New Black” – what would that look like?

Kaitlyn May: From the Harlem Renaissance to Modern Television, the Bisexual Experience

Published in 1926 in Fire!!, Robert Bruce Nugent’s short story, “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” appeared on the scene of…

Jason Tams: Coachella Dorian

Dorian Gray. Male playboy of the 19th century. What a life Dorian could have lived if the society he was…

Phoebe Maldonado: Caitlyn Jenner as Orlando’s Final Form

Although the term “transgender” was not coined until the mid 1960’s; Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, Orlando, tells the journey…

Bailey Jones: Queer Hopes

A common fear for LGBTQ youth is telling their parents that their identity doesn’t meet the expectations that have been…

Carlie Nugent: The Improvement of Trans-Identity Portrayals: From “Glen or Glenda” to “Rent”

Transgender, transsexual, and any and all trans-identifying people have been the victims of hate crimes, hate speeches, and violence…

Maddison Simmons: Oscar Wilde Goes to Pride

Oscar Wilde was a prominent queer figure when he was alive in the late 1800’s. Not only did he write…

Ripley Coon: Dorian Gray and Drag Queens

If Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was set in modern times, Dorian Gray would probably be a drag…

Artemis Nichols: Stephen Gordon Travels through Time

Stephen Gordon, a young woman who was confused about who she was, why she was different. Her attire stayed like…

the Depiction of Dorian Grey

The show Penny Dreadful shows an indulgent man, uncaring to suffering, the dalliances with men, the new fashion music, the blood soaked dances with the raised corpse of a prostitute, these don’t alter the painting, they do nothing to change the horrific goblin depicted in his portrait. It is acts of murder, acts of cruelty dismissal that cause the eyes of the creature to fall on Dorian.