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Kaleidoscope : A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
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This is an Open Access Journal

Open Access journal
ISSN (Print) 1552-700X
Published by Southern Illinois University

[3 journals]

End Matter
- Authors: Kaleidoscope Editor
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:16 PST
Kellyanne Conway and Postfeminism: 'The Desert of the Real'
- Authors: L. Shelley Rawlins
  Abstract: Postfeminism is a slippery, contested, ambivalent, and inherently contradictory term – deployed alternately as an “empowering” identity label and critical theoretical lens. Troubling notions about the past, present, and future of feminism, postfeminism challenges feminist theory. This essay scrutinizes cultural and theoretical themes informing postfeminist discourses. I identify four prevailing themes in extant literature: postfeminist oblivion, self-empowerment, criticality, and feminine pride. I then examine the public discourse and self-asserted postfeminist stance of Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and current counselor to President Trump. Conway advocates for an individualistic, depoliticized femininity. I argue that her complacent misogyny bolsters the bizarre imaginary view that feminism has been and remains harmful to women. To demonstrate this postfeminist harm, I employ Baudrillard’s theoretical apparatus of the simulacrum. Baudrillard’s notion highlights the strategies of abstraction, simulation, and accompanying models of control that circumnavigate and ignore “the real” (feminism) in favor of “the hyperreal” (postfeminism) (1981, 1-2).
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:13 PST
Getting “Woke” on Intersectionality: Illuminating the Rhetorical
Significance of Disability Discourse in Feminist Activist Spaces
- Authors: Danielle C. Biss
  Abstract: In the 28 years since the establishment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), individuals with disabilities still live on the margins in social, public, and mediated discourse. Women of color with disabilities, in particular, still struggle to challenge their positionality on the margins due to multifaceted layers of oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, classism, and ableism as further complexities of identity. Yet, in a society with such disregard for and contestation involving disability issues, there is hope with disability activist Vilissa Thompson. In this rhetorical analysis, I examine Thompson as a marginal rhetor whose disability activism serves as a form of public pedagogy to inform the public how to engage in disability discourse in feminist activist spaces. Examined is Thompson’s hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite and her development of the website Ramp Your Voice as a discursive mediated platform of empowerment for people of color with disabilities. Applications for applying intersectional theory in praxis are discussed.
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:10 PST
Ideographic identity: A critical and rhetorical analysis of the YMCA’s
organizational identity rhetoric
- Authors: Katharine E. Miller
  Abstract: This paper presents an ideographic, rhetorical analysis of the identity rhetoric presented by the nation’s largest nonprofit organization, the YMCA—an area rather understudied in organizational communication and qualitative research. This analysis explores the rhetorical approaches taken by nonprofit organizations, and the YMCA specifically, in attempting to build and communicate identity to communities in which they belong. Specifically, I analyze the organization’s identity-building rhetoric through the use of both textual and visual ideographs in a variety of artifacts to determine whether or not these strategies are effective.
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:06 PST
A Suite in Six Attitudes: Subverting (and Succumbing to) the Textual Bias
- Authors: Leanna Smithberger
  Abstract: This essay challenges textual dominance in academia by using music composition and performance as a method and representation of inquiry. I argue that this is a form of tactical resistance since it plays within the system, meeting requirements but challenging expectations. The resulting text from the project satisfies academic requirements for a written text, but subverts expectations as to the form that text should take. I provide the musical score and a discussion of the creation and performance of the composition to show how even when attempting to abandon textualism, we are still constrained by it. Despite this, I present music as a useful approach to performance studies because it can introduce the local particulars of embodied performance and listening to the academy.
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:03 PST
I Am Enough: A Suite in Six Attitudes
- Authors: Leanna Smithberger
  Abstract: This is the audio for Smithberger's article "A Suite in Six Attitudes: Subverting (and Succumbing to) the Textual Bias," available at https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope/vol18/iss1/4/. Individual tracks may be streamed at https://soundcloud.com/kalscopejrnl/sets/i-am-enough-a-suite-in-six-attitudes.
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:00 PST
Call for Manuscripts
- Authors: Kaleidoscope Editor
  PubDate: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:46:56 PST

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