HOA 411

  The article this week, “Framing the Questions: Positive Imaging and Scarcity in Lesbian Photographs’ (1991), by Jan Zita Grover was the argument that lesbians are being wrongly identified as to appease the current society. In this article there are many moments where there is tension, or even the feeling that the author is strongly voicing her own biased opinions on the matter. Though there are some points within the article I would agree with, it had me question who was the target audience with this article? The author explains a moment she had very early within the article about her friend and how she had rejected photos. “Yet as I watched, my friend rejected photograph after photograph made by Nicaraguans and Cubans in favor of photographs made by North Americans and Europeans.”  At this moment I tried to evaluate is as those would within a journalistic view. Depending on where images are submitted, the images could not be what that company is looking for at that time. ...

The article, "Indigenous Methodologies Characteristics, Conversations, arid Contexts," by Margaret Kovach, is a conversation on indigenous methodologies.  Indigenous epistemology is a form of philosophy that focuses on the study of knowledge.  My focus is on what the author uses within her article to explain education through generations.  Indigenous methodologies flow from tribal knowledge, and while they are allied with several western qualitative approaches, they remain distinct through history.  The author uses different theories through the article like decolonization, self-culture, and ethics.   In the article, there is a moment where the author uses a quote from Dyke, 1986: 132.  "The first step to liquidating a people ... is to erase its memory ... before long a nation will begin to forget what it is, and what it was.  The world around it will never forget even faster."  After this quote, Margaret explains that many indigenous people ...

“Meaning. Identity, Embodiment,” by Amelia jones is the exploration of the issue of identity in relation to art.   The example used in this is the painting, “The origin of the World,” by Gustave Courbet.   In the essay Jones argues clearly in the essay her viewpoint on issues of gender and sexuality.   Jones expresses strong enmity toward the interpretations of Courbet’s painting.   Through this essay we can see that Jones believes that we can make a better sense of the painting or artwork through the creator.   In the essay Jones says, “It is not enough, to understand the social and cultural effects of visual imagery purely in terms of disembodied structure of the “gaze.””   To me this meant that even though there is a that level of interpretation missing from a piece despite giving information based on what we see.   Which is interesting because in our discussion of the oppositional gaze and visual pleasure, there is the argument of sexualization in ...