Megan Elizabeth Morrissey
Biographic Data
| ID | 6517949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Elizabeth Morrissey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrissey |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISSEY M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice of podding was encouraged in public discourse as a way to manage the isolation and stress many people experienced. While described as a creative mode of relationality that extended traditional nuclear family units, the public discourse about forming quarantine pods during the COVID-19 pandemic was a strategic bordering practice. Even though some community members (LGBTQIA+ and otherwise) ce…
Under (Y)our skin
Rachel Dolezal’s infamous self-proclamation of blackness has become an important snippet of public discourse contributing to US American attitudes about race. The recent Netflix documentary, The Rachel Divide, has inspired a new round of public conversation about Dolezal’s racial transgression and its effects on the black community, but what does Dolezal’s performance demonstrate about whiteness in the United States? I argue that Dolezal draws on…
Border matters
Instead of being the product of social sense-making, I argue that borders are “vital assemblages,” acting on and in the world. Analyzing the virtual documentation and response to two border art installations, Kikito and the Giant Picnic, I theorize that the border is in a constant state of being made and remade through the emerging, ongoing, and dynamic relationships between people, language, and physical space. I suggest that these installations…
The Incongruities of Queer Decorum
Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons series disrupts the traditional form of renaissance era religious artwork, allowing viewers to consider the juxtaposition of the queer and trans people of color he foregrounds within the constructs of traditional religious iconography. Demonstrating a socially conscious brand of art that is emblematic of some of today’s visual artists, García Román works within and through traditional constraints (material, temp…
SpoiledMilk
On September 22, 2014, Medolac Laboratories, a company in Oregon that processes human milk, announced an initiative to purchase pumped breast milk from African-American mothers in Detroit, Michigan. Angry about Medolac's predatory initiative to target this population, a community of Black female breastfeeding activists, or Blacktavists, swiftly took to blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to express their concerns. We argue that Blacktavists—working on, …
(Net)roots of Belonging
Neoliberalism has gained a foothold in U.S. policy and practice, and maintains the advantages of those already privileged within the global community. In this essay, I argue that national discourses of (in)valuability, informed by and in the service of neoliberalism and post-racial citizenship, (1) establish cultural understandings that invest the (white) U.S. nation with increasing levels of worth, (2) demonstrate migrants' value as investors an…
A DREAM Disrupted
The choices DREAMers participating in Citizen Orange's “DREAM Now” letter-writing campaign made to appeal for passage of the DREAM Act in the United States in 2010 provide insight into how disidentificatory strategies can be used by marginalized groups seeking belonging. DREAM activists adopted disidentification as a tactic to develop and deliver their intentions for national belonging without radically subverting current citizenship structures o…
Rape as a Weapon of Hate
When the violent years of apartheid ended in South Africa in the early 1990s, the nation reinvigorated a commitment to equality. Despite institutional gains and the constitutional recognition of gay rights, violence against gay and lesbian people in South Africa persists. This critical rhetorical analysis reveals that much media coverage about the nation constructs Black lesbianism in South Africa as especially liminal. Discursively marginalizing…
Rape as a Weapon of Hate
When the violent years of apartheid ended in South Africa in the early 1990s, the nation reinvigorated a commitment to equality. Despite institutional gains and the constitutional recognition of gay rights, violence against gay and lesbian people in South Africa persists. This critical rhetorical analysis reveals that much media coverage about the nation constructs Black lesbianism in South Africa as especially liminal. Discursively marginalizing…
SpoiledMilk
On September 22, 2014, Medolac Laboratories, a company in Oregon that processes human milk, announced an initiative to purchase pumped breast milk from African-American mothers in Detroit, Michigan. Angry about Medolac's predatory initiative to target this population, a community of Black female breastfeeding activists, or Blacktavists, swiftly took to blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to express their concerns. We argue that Blacktavists—working on, …
A DREAM Disrupted
The choices DREAMers participating in Citizen Orange's “DREAM Now” letter-writing campaign made to appeal for passage of the DREAM Act in the United States in 2010 provide insight into how disidentificatory strategies can be used by marginalized groups seeking belonging. DREAM activists adopted disidentification as a tactic to develop and deliver their intentions for national belonging without radically subverting current citizenship structures o…
Border matters
Instead of being the product of social sense-making, I argue that borders are “vital assemblages,” acting on and in the world. Analyzing the virtual documentation and response to two border art installations, Kikito and the Giant Picnic, I theorize that the border is in a constant state of being made and remade through the emerging, ongoing, and dynamic relationships between people, language, and physical space. I suggest that these installations…
(Net)roots of Belonging
Neoliberalism has gained a foothold in U.S. policy and practice, and maintains the advantages of those already privileged within the global community. In this essay, I argue that national discourses of (in)valuability, informed by and in the service of neoliberalism and post-racial citizenship, (1) establish cultural understandings that invest the (white) U.S. nation with increasing levels of worth, (2) demonstrate migrants' value as investors an…
A DREAM Disrupted
The choices DREAMers participating in Citizen Orange's “DREAM Now” letter-writing campaign made to appeal for passage of the DREAM Act in the United States in 2010 provide insight into how disidentificatory strategies can be used by marginalized groups seeking belonging. DREAM activists adopted disidentification as a tactic to develop and deliver their intentions for national belonging without radically subverting current citizenship structures o…
Rape as a Weapon of Hate
When the violent years of apartheid ended in South Africa in the early 1990s, the nation reinvigorated a commitment to equality. Despite institutional gains and the constitutional recognition of gay rights, violence against gay and lesbian people in South Africa persists. This critical rhetorical analysis reveals that much media coverage about the nation constructs Black lesbianism in South Africa as especially liminal. Discursively marginalizing…
(Net)roots of Belonging
Neoliberalism has gained a foothold in U.S. policy and practice, and maintains the advantages of those already privileged within the global community. In this essay, I argue that national discourses of (in)valuability, informed by and in the service of neoliberalism and post-racial citizenship, (1) establish cultural understandings that invest the (white) U.S. nation with increasing levels of worth, (2) demonstrate migrants' value as investors an…
SpoiledMilk
On September 22, 2014, Medolac Laboratories, a company in Oregon that processes human milk, announced an initiative to purchase pumped breast milk from African-American mothers in Detroit, Michigan. Angry about Medolac's predatory initiative to target this population, a community of Black female breastfeeding activists, or Blacktavists, swiftly took to blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to express their concerns. We argue that Blacktavists—working on, …
The Incongruities of Queer Decorum
Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons series disrupts the traditional form of renaissance era religious artwork, allowing viewers to consider the juxtaposition of the queer and trans people of color he foregrounds within the constructs of traditional religious iconography. Demonstrating a socially conscious brand of art that is emblematic of some of today’s visual artists, García Román works within and through traditional constraints (material, temp…
Border matters
Instead of being the product of social sense-making, I argue that borders are “vital assemblages,” acting on and in the world. Analyzing the virtual documentation and response to two border art installations, Kikito and the Giant Picnic, I theorize that the border is in a constant state of being made and remade through the emerging, ongoing, and dynamic relationships between people, language, and physical space. I suggest that these installations…
Under (Y)our skin
Rachel Dolezal’s infamous self-proclamation of blackness has become an important snippet of public discourse contributing to US American attitudes about race. The recent Netflix documentary, The Rachel Divide, has inspired a new round of public conversation about Dolezal’s racial transgression and its effects on the black community, but what does Dolezal’s performance demonstrate about whiteness in the United States? I argue that Dolezal draws on…
When Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice of podding was encouraged in public discourse as a way to manage the isolation and stress many people experienced. While described as a creative mode of relationality that extended traditional nuclear family units, the public discourse about forming quarantine pods during the COVID-19 pandemic was a strategic bordering practice. Even though some community members (LGBTQIA+ and otherwise) ce…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Politics (4 works)