Rachel E Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel E Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel E |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2570-0148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The L Word: Generation Q (2019–23), USA: MLR Originals and Showtime Networks
Review of: The L Word: Generation Q (2019–23), USA: MLR Originals and Showtime Networks
Antisemitism on Social Media Since October 7, 2023
The October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and the resulting war with Gaza has shifted social media experiences of antisemitism in innumerable and catastrophic ways. This analysis of Instagram uses the frameworks of new antisemitism, epistemic antisemitism, and a lethal combination of the two: de-marginalized antisemitism, that fetishizes Palestinians as the ideal subaltern to situate the ways in which Jew hatred manifests daily online. This essay ar…
Special Issue Forum: Navigating Privilege and Risk: Mothering and Professing During Covid-19
The novel coronavirus global pandemic—and the associated disease it causes (COVID-19)—swept the world in 2020, completely changing life as it once was. Academic mothers experienced COVID-19 as an unanticipated crash of simultaneous parenting responsibilities, remote teaching, and continued pressure to produce research. In this forum, four academic mothers present vignettes that represent their experiences navigating privilege and risk while paren…
Memorializing Pulse
Since 2016, the city of Orlando, FL, has remembered the Pulse nightclub massacre through memorial projects honoring the victims and survivors. The process of remembering and memorializing trauma is contentious; debates over how, where, who, and what to remember are about emotions, economics, and politics. Knowing that meaning making and memory are ongoing processes, I use the circuit of culture model to navigate my city’s processes and places of …
Autoethnography and Memory/Memorials of Conflict and Crisis
In the winter of 2009, I travel to Berlin to be part of Germany Close Up, a strategic initiative, co-created by the General Consul in New York and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and now administered by action Reconciliation Service for Peace in cooperation with the New Synagogue Berlin, to “encourage German-Jewish-North American dialogue as well as to strengthen the involvement of the North American Jewish community in transatlantic rela…
Samsung Galaxy: The Future”
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and The Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
Blurring the Body and the Page: The Theory, Style, and Practice of Autoethnography
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Patriarchy Interrupted: Differential Realizations and Manifestations of Power in Butch/Femme Relationships
This auto-theoretical essay explores femme and butch as differential identities, expressed through the very specific gender performances of lesbian identity-fem(me)ininity and mas(k)ulinity. We revisit a night spent together as a means of cocreating the understanding of lesbian habitus and the space lesbians occupy when they come together sexually. We interrogate what this means for our own gender performances and expressions of power both within…
My femme friendship
This autoethnographic study of femme friendship explores the connection and relationship between two femme lesbians-my femme friend Amber and myself. The shared experience of invisibility and the related perils and privileges that come with passing as straight enact a bond unlike any either of us have previously experienced. Meeting within the context of a polyamorous relationship adds a layer of complexity to our friendship that deepens the rela…
Everything Is Different the Second Time Around”: The Stigma of Temporality on Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) offers Netflix viewers the chance to go behind bars and see the Prison Industrial Complex from the inside. Described by creator Jenji Kohan as “my activism,” OITNB showcases the reprehensible treatment of elderly female prisoners, while simultaneously adhering to age-old tropes of femininity as manipulative. Using Goffman’s work on stigma as a framework, we examine representations of elderly women on OITNB, while a…
Jewish Performativity on Sex and the City
This article examines the character Charlotte York from Sex and the City to argue for the performativity of Jewish identity. During season six, Charlotte converts to Judaism; throughout her conversion and ensuing Jewish life, Charlotte is forced to reiterate Jewishness on her person in order to mark herself as Jewish. Because of the normative assumption of Christianity on television and in real life in Western culture, Charlotte’s Jewishness is r…
Stumbling upon history: Collective memory and the urban landscape
Blurring the Body and the Page: The Theory, Style, and Practice of Autoethnography
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Everything Is Different the Second Time Around”: The Stigma of Temporality on Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) offers Netflix viewers the chance to go behind bars and see the Prison Industrial Complex from the inside. Described by creator Jenji Kohan as “my activism,” OITNB showcases the reprehensible treatment of elderly female prisoners, while simultaneously adhering to age-old tropes of femininity as manipulative. Using Goffman’s work on stigma as a framework, we examine representations of elderly women on OITNB, while a…
Stumbling upon history: Collective memory and the urban landscape
Special Issue Forum: Navigating Privilege and Risk: Mothering and Professing During Covid-19
The novel coronavirus global pandemic—and the associated disease it causes (COVID-19)—swept the world in 2020, completely changing life as it once was. Academic mothers experienced COVID-19 as an unanticipated crash of simultaneous parenting responsibilities, remote teaching, and continued pressure to produce research. In this forum, four academic mothers present vignettes that represent their experiences navigating privilege and risk while paren…
My femme friendship
This autoethnographic study of femme friendship explores the connection and relationship between two femme lesbians-my femme friend Amber and myself. The shared experience of invisibility and the related perils and privileges that come with passing as straight enact a bond unlike any either of us have previously experienced. Meeting within the context of a polyamorous relationship adds a layer of complexity to our friendship that deepens the rela…
Jewish Performativity on Sex and the City
This article examines the character Charlotte York from Sex and the City to argue for the performativity of Jewish identity. During season six, Charlotte converts to Judaism; throughout her conversion and ensuing Jewish life, Charlotte is forced to reiterate Jewishness on her person in order to mark herself as Jewish. Because of the normative assumption of Christianity on television and in real life in Western culture, Charlotte’s Jewishness is r…
Stumbling upon history: Collective memory and the urban landscape
Jewish Performativity on Sex and the City
This article examines the character Charlotte York from Sex and the City to argue for the performativity of Jewish identity. During season six, Charlotte converts to Judaism; throughout her conversion and ensuing Jewish life, Charlotte is forced to reiterate Jewishness on her person in order to mark herself as Jewish. Because of the normative assumption of Christianity on television and in real life in Western culture, Charlotte’s Jewishness is r…
Everything Is Different the Second Time Around”: The Stigma of Temporality on Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) offers Netflix viewers the chance to go behind bars and see the Prison Industrial Complex from the inside. Described by creator Jenji Kohan as “my activism,” OITNB showcases the reprehensible treatment of elderly female prisoners, while simultaneously adhering to age-old tropes of femininity as manipulative. Using Goffman’s work on stigma as a framework, we examine representations of elderly women on OITNB, while a…
My femme friendship
This autoethnographic study of femme friendship explores the connection and relationship between two femme lesbians-my femme friend Amber and myself. The shared experience of invisibility and the related perils and privileges that come with passing as straight enact a bond unlike any either of us have previously experienced. Meeting within the context of a polyamorous relationship adds a layer of complexity to our friendship that deepens the rela…
Samsung Galaxy: The Future”
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and The Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
Blurring the Body and the Page: The Theory, Style, and Practice of Autoethnography
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Patriarchy Interrupted: Differential Realizations and Manifestations of Power in Butch/Femme Relationships
This auto-theoretical essay explores femme and butch as differential identities, expressed through the very specific gender performances of lesbian identity-fem(me)ininity and mas(k)ulinity. We revisit a night spent together as a means of cocreating the understanding of lesbian habitus and the space lesbians occupy when they come together sexually. We interrogate what this means for our own gender performances and expressions of power both within…
Memorializing Pulse
Since 2016, the city of Orlando, FL, has remembered the Pulse nightclub massacre through memorial projects honoring the victims and survivors. The process of remembering and memorializing trauma is contentious; debates over how, where, who, and what to remember are about emotions, economics, and politics. Knowing that meaning making and memory are ongoing processes, I use the circuit of culture model to navigate my city’s processes and places of …
Autoethnography and Memory/Memorials of Conflict and Crisis
In the winter of 2009, I travel to Berlin to be part of Germany Close Up, a strategic initiative, co-created by the General Consul in New York and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and now administered by action Reconciliation Service for Peace in cooperation with the New Synagogue Berlin, to “encourage German-Jewish-North American dialogue as well as to strengthen the involvement of the North American Jewish community in transatlantic rela…
Special Issue Forum: Navigating Privilege and Risk: Mothering and Professing During Covid-19
The novel coronavirus global pandemic—and the associated disease it causes (COVID-19)—swept the world in 2020, completely changing life as it once was. Academic mothers experienced COVID-19 as an unanticipated crash of simultaneous parenting responsibilities, remote teaching, and continued pressure to produce research. In this forum, four academic mothers present vignettes that represent their experiences navigating privilege and risk while paren…
Antisemitism on Social Media Since October 7, 2023
The October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and the resulting war with Gaza has shifted social media experiences of antisemitism in innumerable and catastrophic ways. This analysis of Instagram uses the frameworks of new antisemitism, epistemic antisemitism, and a lethal combination of the two: de-marginalized antisemitism, that fetishizes Palestinians as the ideal subaltern to situate the ways in which Jew hatred manifests daily online. This essay ar…
The L Word: Generation Q (2019–23), USA: MLR Originals and Showtime Networks
Review of: The L Word: Generation Q (2019–23), USA: MLR Originals and Showtime Networks
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)