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Newsletter of the Illinois State University Queer Coalition. Spring 2023https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/qc/1000/thumbnail.jp

Analysis of Craniofacial Skeletal and Soft Tissue Anatomy of the eye in Relation to Reduced Visual Acuity in Humans

Despite nearly 100 years of research, the etiology of juvenile-onset myopia is still unknown. However, given that millions of years of brain expansion and reduced facial prognathism have brought the frontal lobes to rest directly above the eyes, while the facehas become situated directly beneath them, it is likely that these adjacent craniofacial characteristics are associated with functional constraints of the visual system. As a result, this study examined to what extent the myopic eye is associated with circumscribing hard and soft tissues of the skull. This was carried out using magnetic resonance images and associated de-identified clinicaldata for 112 subjects. Linear and volumetric measurements of the eye, orbit, and craniofacial anatomy were obtained using AMIRA, and linear regression analysis and ANOVA were used to test for relationships between variables, and differences among vision groups. Results showed that increased eye (F = 2.93, p = 0.05), orbital (F = 7.28, p = 0.00), and to a lesser extent ocular fat volumes (F = 2.26, p = 0.109), were associated with reduced visual acuity across the study sample. A larger eye relative to orbital volume was also associated with diminished vision (F = 2.55, p = 0.083) though at slightly above ? = 0.05. However, thisrelationship became statistically significant (F = 3.13, p = 0.048) when ocular fat was also considered (eye/fat+orbit). Outside of these eye, ocular fat, and orbital relationships, no other skeletal trait of the face or cranium were found to be associated with visual acuity

Out And About

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Queer Coalition. Fall 2023https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/qc/1001/thumbnail.jp

Why is there no queer international theory?

Over the last decade, Queer Studies have become Global Queer Studies, generating significant insights into key international political processes. Yet, the transformation from Queer to Global Queer has left the discipline of International Relations largely unaffected, which begs the question: if Queer Studies has gone global, why has the discipline of International Relations not gone somewhat queer? Or, to put it in Martin Wight’s provocative terms, why is there no Queer International Theory? This article claims that the presumed non-existence of Queer International Theory is an effect of how the discipline of International Relations combines homologization, figuration, and gentrification to code various types of theory as failures in order to manage the conduct of international theorizing in all its forms. This means there are generalizable lessons to be drawn from how the discipline categorizes Queer International Theory out of existence to bring a specific understanding of International Relations into existence

Intersecting communities, interwoven identities: questioning boundaries, testing bridges, and forging a queer latinidad in the U.S. Southwest

This contribution to the special issue on ‘Languages in Contact, Cultures in Conflict: English and Spanish in the USA’ aims to investigate the concept of queer latinidad in Phoenix, Arizona in an attempt to understand how queer Latin@s in Phoenix see themselves in relation to Latino communities, queer communities, and a queer Latino community. While questioning received notions of ‘community,’ we look at how queer latinidad is constructed or rejected by queer Latinas/os in Phoenix at the dawn of the twenty-first century precisely as national attention has been focused on the state of Arizona, and how this negotiation might blur traditional notions of community and question boundaries between communities by highlighting the racial and ethnic diversity of the (presumed Anglo) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, as well as the gender and sexual diversities of the (presumed heterosexual) Latino community

Where’s My Queer BBQ?: Supporting Queer Students at Historically Women’s Colleges

The experiences of Queer students at institutions of higher education have long been the subject of scholarship. Scholars explored research on campus climate, experience, and identity development. In the past, scholarship on historically women’s institutions explored leadership, history, and sexuality. However, the experiences of Queer students on historically women’s campuses are largely unstudied. As a graduate of a historically women’s institution who identifies as a Queer woman, I will reflect on my own experience of being a Queer student at a women’s college, and identify where Queer students receive the support they need to succeed

Queer Intersectionality and the Failure of Recent Lesbian and Gay Victories

Part I of this essay will introduce the queer theories underlying my critique and will outline the discrete positioning of lesbian and gay identity and community which labels these cases “victories.” The intersectionality of queer identity is the key blind spot in the litigation model. The queer continuum, a re-conceptualization of Adrienne Rich\u27s lesbian continuum, delineates the spectrum of queer identity. Part II will explore the facts, issues and holdings of these four cases. My examination of these cases will reveal how they grant some rights to “but-for” queers, who, “but-for” their being lesbian or gay, would be “perfect citizens.” I will discuss how the rules and applications of these cases either exclude some queer communities or address issues irrelevant to other communities. The communities whose interest I specifically address are poor queers, queers of color, sexual subversives, and gender subversive queers. These limitations should figure prominently in the consideration of litigation\u27s role in queer activism. In Part III, I conclude by outlining the implications of this critique for the relationship between queer communities and litigation

Wilde Stein Monthly Zine

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