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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Thurman Opening Comments

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2024-February-15
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Opening comments by Jonathon Kahn for the "The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations" event on
Feb 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. in the Villard Room.

Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with...

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Too much, too soon: a toolkit for teenagers who learn more about sexuality through their phones than in the classroom

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2017-January-01
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Too Much, Too Soon is a curriculum toolkit that simultaneously educates young people about the realities of sexting while providing tools to critique the structures that frame sexting as a problem in the first place. Through a speculative design exercise...

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Transgression and containment: transhistorical themes and tropes within televised American women's stand-up comedy

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2017-January-01
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Joan Rivers. Elayne Boosler. Roseanne Barr. Janeane Garofalo. Amy Schumer. What do these commedians–whose careers span seven decades–have in common? Starting in the 1950s and ending in contemporary times, we see that there are transhistorical trends–including self-deprecation, navigating one's anger...

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