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Annie Glover is not a tree lover
When her grandmother chains herself to the tree across from the school to save it from being cut down, fourth-grader Annie wants to die of humiliation, but when she discovers the town's history, her attitude changes.
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Abortion Bans and Handmaid Protests
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale has gained relevance in recent years due to the popularity of the series adaptation by showrunner Bruce Miller. The genesis of the novel is tightly bound to the sociopolitical context in which it was conceived in the 1980s while the show was released just a few months after Donald Trump’s election, both contexts marked by the looming threat of the limitation of access to safe abortion. The aim of this article is to analyze The Handmaid’s Tale as a cultural artifact that transcends the fictional realm and has spilled into the real world by inspiring a global protest movement against restrictions on reproductive rights. While the handmaid protest movement has garnered media attention, its articulation and effectiveness present limitations.
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Volleyball dreams
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
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Movement Societies and Digital Protest: Fan Activism and Other Nonpolitical Protest Online
Sociologists of culture studying \"fan activism\" have noted an apparent increase in its volume, which they attribute to the growing use of the Internet to register fan claims. However, scholars have yet to measure the extent of contemporary fan activism, account for why fan discontent has been expressed through protest, or precisely specify the role of the Internet in this expansion. We argue that these questions can be addressed by drawing on a growing body of work by social movement scholars on \"movement societies,\" and more particularly on a nascent thread of this approach we develop that theorizes the appropriation of protest practices for causes outside the purview of traditional social movements. Theorizing that the Internet, as a new media, is positioned to accelerate the diffusion of protest practices, we develop and test hypotheses about the use of movement practices for fan activism and other nonpolitical claims online using data on claims made in quasi-random samples of online petitions, boycotts, and e-mailing or letter-writing campaigns. Results are supportive of our hypotheses, showing that diverse claims are being pursued online, including culturally-oriented and consumer-based claims that look very different from traditional social movement claims. Findings have implications for students of social movements, sociologists of culture, and Internet studies.
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Save our squad, Gaby
Although they are graduating, Gaby Fuller and her friends are shocked to learn that, due to budget cuts, the Greenview cheerleading squad will be disbanded, and they organize a protest to try and get the decision reversed.
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Dying against Democracy: Suicide Protest and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott
The joint rise of popular movements and mass media in early twentieth-century China gave birth to a democratic imagination, which culminated in the anti-American boycott of 1905. The transnational campaign nonetheless disintegrated as a result of partisan division—an ingrained predicament of democratic agonism that is best illustrated by the story of Feng Xiawei, a grassroots activist whose suicide in Shanghai constituted a key moment in the boycott. Juxtaposing a variety of accounts about Feng's death in journalism, political fiction, reformed opera, and advertisements, this article examines how, together, these texts construct democratic agonism and suicide protest as revealing two opposing political sensibilities as well as modes of action. Instead of expressing only nationalist passion, Feng's suicide reveals a deep anxiety of his time to locate a spiritual source of authority in the face of its glaring absence in social negotiation. This fraught dynamic between the democratic and the transcendent continues to characterize modern Chinese political culture to the present.
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Rampage
\"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Silence, Murder, and Homoerotic Desire
This paper seeks to explore the resistance strategies that women characters use in engaging with oppressive systems in their societies in selected African texts. Women’s choices in marriage and sexuality are often suppressed in public discourses. Women often have to contend with marginalization, exploitation, powerlessness, and forced marriages. This paper examines Alifa Rifaat’s collection of short stories, Distant View of a Minaret, and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and argues that these writers present women who, faced with difficult situations, register their protest through silence, murder, or resort to a closeted alternate sexuality. These are not merely survival strategies but are also protest making ventures. One major conclusion is the important role writers play in giving voice to these protests. However, it is necessary to indicate that the ephemeral nature of these protest movements in the face of the toxic gender dynamics that prevail in the texts is a testament to the need for more sustained activism and advocacy for equal gender rights.
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He said, she said : a novel
\"When a popular football 'playa' and ladies man and the smartest girl in school lead a school protest, sparks fly as their social media-aided revolution grows\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Protester's Tale--The Handmaid Costume as Feminist Dystopian Protest Rhetoric
After the release of the first season of Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale in April 2017, feminist activists in the US and abroad swiftly adopted handmaid costumes to protest various policies and politicians. In this essay, I argue that the handmaid protest costume has functioned as a form of what I term \"feminist dystopian protest rhetoric\" by drawing on images of an iconic feminist dystopian future to advocate for a better world today. The handmaid protest costume embodies the complex interplay between Utopia and dystopia that has been unfolding in recent years, utilizing a now iconic feminist dystopian image to condemn oppression and injustice, reflect a belief that contemporary wrongs can be overcome and foreground oppositional voices and subjectivities even under the most oppressive systems, all without the formulation of a unitary utopian agenda. I discuss key elements of the costume's success, including its spreadability, iconicity, coherent visual identity and impact, before outlining its connection to defamiliarization, a common feature of dystopian works. Lastly, I consider some of the issues that users of the handmaid protest costume may have to grapple with if the handmaid costume is to continue to be used as a form of protest.
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