The Short Song Project

The Short Song Project is a collection of short songs about play and reveling in the freedom afforded by curiosity

I Femminiellə: Unearthing Sanctified Queerness

This project serves as an unearthing, in the figuratively archeological sense, of the religious roots and foundations of queerness, often overlooked in contemporary gender discourses, through the exposing of pre and post-modern queer religious iconography specific to the Neapolitan third-gender community of the femminiellə. Although the femmininellə have origins in a long lineage of non-binary forms and figures throughout global and Italian history, they have been more recently brought to the surface of gender discourses through the avenue of photography, showcased in digital and physical exhibition spaces

From Fashion, To Violence, To a Forgotten Era: The Zoot Suit and Mexican-American Youth Culture in 1940’s America

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Can I Have It All?: Does Attachment Style Dictate Relationship Security?

Studies have shown that individuals with insecure attachment styles are less likely to feel satisfied or secure in their relationships. Research has shown that security priming can be used to increase one’s attachment security towards relationships. In the present study 40 students (ages 18-23) from Bard College were recruited in order to investigate whether a short-term priming intervention can make people feel more securely attached in their relationships. Participants first completed the ECR-RS questionnaire in order to get their attachment style. Then, participants completed the first half (Time 1) of the ECR-R questionnaire in order to determine how secure they feel in a specific relationship prior to priming. Participants were then separated into a control and experimental group. Those in the experimental group were primed by writing about a relationship that is important to them for eight minutes. Participants in the control group wrote about their week for eight minutes. Afterwards, participants completed the second half of the ECR-R. Results indicated that there is no significant difference in scores when comparing the security scores between the experimental and control group at Time 2

Examining Stellate Unions

Stellate neighborhoods are created by gluing half disks together along their straight edges. A 1-stellate neighborhood is a half disk, a 2-stellate neighborhood is a disk, a 3-stellate neighborhood is 3 half disks glued together to make a star-like shape, and so on. For a topological space $X$, and for each n \in \nn, the $n$-stellate subspace of $X$ is the set of all points in $X$ that have a neighborhood homeomorphic to an $n$-stellate neighborhood. I will be examining topological spaces called stellate unions, where each point in the space is contained in an $n$-stellate subspace for some n \in \nn. All surfaces and surfaces with boundary are stellate unions, yet there are many stellate unions that are not surfaces or surfaces with boundary. I will explore some stellate unions called extended graph twists and examine their orientability

Tanda Fantástica

Tanda Fantástica Senior Project Submitted to The Division of the Arts Of Bard College by Melonie Mei-Long Bisset Annandale-on-Hudson, New York May 2023 My senior project Tanda Fantástica is a fantasy dance film capturing the experience of dancing Argentine tango as a set of three songs, or a tanda. At a milonga, which is a tango dance party, it is customary to invite or to be invited by someone to dance a set of three to four songs, called a tanda. Thus, for 12-15 minutes, one is committed to their dance partner, and the experience of dancing tango cannot be summed up in just one song. This short film explores the imaginary spaces we create in our minds as we immerse ourselves in a dance. The viewers are led on a journey through space and time. The film questions the saying “it takes two to tango,” and starts off with a tango solo, followed by a tango duo, the ideal tango, and ends with an array of interchangeable dancer, displaying the concept of tango queer where anyone can lead and follow, challenging the hyper-heterosexual norms of the dance. It also brings about the idea that the experience of dancing tango is universally shared. As the audience are no longer able to focus on just one couple, they see the overarching shared sentiments felt by people engage with the art form. 3D animation is paired with live action to bring out the fantastic parts of the experience of dancing. I explore how dancing tango can take the dancer into a fantasy realm, flying free, transcend time and space, this timeless and spaceless quality of tango, how people find meaning and comfort in the dance. My film attempts to challenge the heavily perpetuated tango clichés. Here, tango is not the overly sexualized and exorcized dance as it is often presented in the media. I try to focus on tango’s ability to establish deeper human connections, underlying the experience of complete immersion while dancing..

METAMORPH

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

The NGO Industrial Complex and Palestinian Feminism: A Case Study

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

The Crafting of a Modern China: The May Fourth Movement and its Cultural Transformations

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Revolution, Conflict, Revolt, Uprising, among other Adjectives: Resistance Movements in Colonial Sudan

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………3 II. Primary Documents and Headnotes……….21 III. Textbook Critique……………………………30 IV. New Textbook Entry………………………...33 V. Bibliography…………………………………..36https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/history_mat/1037/thumbnail.jp