Religious Queer Trans-Nationalism: A Zine and Theory

From the author: The relationship between religion and its institutions, sexuality, and gender is both historically and personally complex, and the intricacy and discourse between these constructs disproportionally affects religious queer and transgender communities. The Divine Transgender concept, embraced by a growing community of proudly religious trans and gender non-conforming people, views bodies that identify with these categories as enlightened to break down restrictive gender binaries and undergo a spiritual self-realization process in the form of transition, becoming closer to God during the journey. This zine aims to creatively and imaginatively manage these relationships and educate about the ways religions have affirmed and embraced queer identities historically.https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/student_zines/1012/thumbnail.jp

Indigenizing the Right to a Healthy Environment

The most severe impacts resulting from environmental degradation are experienced by already-vulnerable populations, including Indigenous peoples. A growing number of countries are formally recognizing the basic human right to a healthy environment, which can help realize environmental and climate justice for these communities. On July 28, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution formally recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. The adoption of this resolution represents a pivotal moment in the understanding and implementation of a human rights-based approach to protecting the environment. However, it is important to recognize that historically, Indigenous peoples have recognized and practiced the principles that make up the contemporary concept of a human right to a healthy environment. The unique relationship Indigenous peoples have with the environment and their traditional knowledges are increasingly being recognized and can help inform further efforts to implement the right to a healthy environment by countries that have yet to do so, such as the United States. This Article begins by defining the human right to a healthy environment. The Article then outlines how the right to a healthy environment was secured at the international level. Such efforts have often involved the successful merger of Indigenous values, environmental law, and human rights, resulting in a harmony of equitable and productive environmental governance. The Article subsequently examines the potential implementation of this right within the United States and what Tribal Nations have to contribute to the dialogue. Indigenous communities have been and are instrumental in advancing laws and policies aimed at reducing environmental and climate injustices. Accordingly, the Article concludes with recommendations on how Indigenous voices can continue to be elevated and the basic human right to a healthy environment obtained for all

Context-Aware Query Performance Optimization for Transportation in Big Data Analytics

Transit data is stored in multiple data sources doing exploratory analytics on these datasets require querying more than one database. Users need to be updated regarding route services. Hence there is a need for a smarter query framework which can query multiple databases and retrieve the results in less time. The aim of this study is to improve a cost-based query optimizer that utilizes external optimized copy registered in a database and enhances the performance in terms of execution time of the analytical query for data analytics for public transportation datasets stored in different databases. The improvement is initiated in this study by rewriting the query plan to utilize the externally registered optimized copy of data in the relational expression tree during the analytical query execution

Digital Rite of Passage: The First Social Media Kids

Through a combination of academic research and creative storytelling, this thesis delves into the largely undocumented experiences of the “first social media kids,” an entire generation of tweens who grew up using social media in the 2010s before it was heavily moderated or imbued with age restrictions. While stories about this age of social media have been traded consistently in conversations between peers who are currently in their early twenties, there is a clear lack of academic work focused on early social media and the young users who explored it. Through the medium of an episodic and investigative podcast titled Digital Rite of Passage: The First Social Media Kids, my work captures the previously neglected narratives and reflections of this age group to share with a society that constantly raises concerns about our youth being present on social media platforms. The focus of the podcast episode is identity, and how being on social media as a tween may have influenced expression and impacted the users’ sense of self. To provide a foundation of knowledge for the relationship between identity and social media, the literature review begins with an in-depth outline of the functions and characteristics of social media that draw users to the platform for specific purposes. It then explores the practice of self expression through social media platforms and the technological affordances that they provide for users. Lastly, it introduces the relationship between tween users and social media platforms, specifically regarding identity development in children during their tween years and why they are drawn toward social media as a means of expression and identity management. This research, combined with the art of creative storytelling through podcasting, will allow young adults to become a bigger part of the conversation surrounding young social media users by drawing on their own experiences to provide input on the controversial topic

Administering Environmental Justice: How New York’s Environmental Rights Amendment Could Transform Business as Usual

Since New York became the latest state to pass an environmental rights amendment, there has been a great deal of analysis regarding how the judi- ciary will interpret the Green Amendment; however, state and local officials need not wait for the courts to enforce the Green Amendment. This Article explores the authority state and local officials have to carry out the purpose of the Green Amendment. Additionally, it discusses what the passage of the Green Amendment means in practice and how, and why, state officials such as the Attorney General should implement the Green Amendment

Kim

Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. Description: The story of an orphan, the son of a soldier, brought up among the Hindus, sent to school by his father\u27s regiment, and trained to use his powers of keen observation as an agent of the British government.https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/rarebooks/1003/thumbnail.jp

Green Amendments, Land Use, and Transportation: What Could Go Wrong?

As more states amend their constitutions to include a green amendment, the vague nature of these amendments leaves a concerning amount of interpretative power to courts. This article examines how some courts have interpreted green amendments and how these interpretations risk the misuse of green amendments. Additionally, this article examines how such misuse may be avoided

Fatphobia Against Black Women: let’s talk about it

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Powerless Beings: Solitary Confinement of Humans and Nonhumans in America

Every day, thousands of humans and millions of nonhumans endure solitary confinement. Human prisoners held this way are confined for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day for weeks, months, or even years on end in cells the size of a parking space. For these humans, the experience is tortuous. Captive animals held in solitary confinement similarly spend much of their lives locked into tiny spaces, isolated, and deprived of the types of interactions and environment essential to their wellbeing. And, like humans, they are driven mad. In human and nonhuman settings, the agony of solitary is chillingly alike and harmful. And, in neither setting is it justifiable or necessary.This Article uses a comparative format to examine the moral, penological and scientific shortcomings of solitary confinement across species. Part I describes how solitary confinement is used in human and nonhuman settings and shows the deep wounds that it inflicts in both. Part II examines why the legal structures under which solitary confinement is imposed (on humans and nonhumans) offer inadequate protections from its depredations. Part III argues that incarcerated beings have no legal protections because they are powerless and invisible. In Part IV, the authors write individually. The author with expertise in prison law (Mushlin) describes how solitary confinement would end in penal facilities if prisoners were empowered and their rights protected. Next, the author with expertise in animal law (Cassuto) explains why solitary confinement for animals in zoos, aquariums and laboratories should and could be abolished. The authors conclude with a call to empower creatures subjected to solitary confinement. If all vulnerable beings are adequately protected, the unnecessary suffering inflicted by solitary confinement will finally end

Exploring the Potential Effect of Google Chrome’s Removal of Third-Party Cookies on Paid Display Advertising

The digital marketing industry continues to experience tremendous challenges caused by rising consumer privacy concerns. One of the industry’s most notable challenges revolves around the constant technological advancements and changes that these advancements pose on the advertiser’s strategies. My study explores the relationship between advertising expenditure and key performance indicators, such as impressions in paid display advertising. Google Chrome’s removal of third-party cookies could potentially affect this relationship. I chose this topic because of my passion for online consumer behavior and the role of technology and advertising in the continually evolving field of my study, where consumers’ behavior plays a significant role as they continue to worry about their data usage. My study relied on the quantitative methodology, utilizing a descriptive correlation analysis through a scatter plot and a statistical analysis of a linear regression model to study the effect of Google Chrome’s third-party cookie removal on the relationship between advertising expenditure and impressions before and after Google introduced the “Tracking Protection” phase in January 2024. To answer my research question, I studied the dataset of 360 observations on 30 automobile companies in the United States from April 2023 to March 2024. The findings of my analysis revealed that advertising expenditure continues to be a strong predictor of impressions, despite the removal of third-party cookies by Google. However, the findings from my research question have shown that the event being the removal of third-party cookies for 1 percent of Google Chrome’s population worldwide currently does not affect the performance of paid display advertising. This study contributes to the academic literature by providing empirical evidence on the effect of consumer privacy changes on paid display advertising. Future research is strongly encouraged to study the long-term impact of Google\u27s Tracking Protection phase on paid display advertising performance by considering more observations after the event\u27s occurrence, a larger poll of global Google Chrome users, and studying the event\u27s impact across different industries. This will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the effects of consumer privacy changes on the digital marketing industry