English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jenna Lawson | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jennalaw/activity/ Activity feed for Jenna Lawson. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4dfb18b652336a8404c88cfe0d1c3f7f Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Michelle Wolf in Effigy: The White House Correspondents' Dinner in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10218/ Thu, 03 May 2018 03:50:05 -0500 As we finished our last class today, I thought it was only appropriate that I attempt to apply course concepts to an outside event. I stand a mere 10 days from finishing my time at Geneseo (as long as I survive my […]

]]> 0 29688d51314f165ce0849c579834dc36 Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Man in the Mirror: Parallel Characters and Categorization in The Tempest in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10120/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 03:27:30 -0500 Today, my castmate in The Tempest, Jeanmarie Ryan, dropped a theory in front of the cast and then walked away. “I think there are two mirrored character pairs that explore possible outcomes of a similar dy […]

]]> 0 a0dc786bc9b8b7f160b47319a8e2aab4 Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Caliban, Colonialism, and Me in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10115/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:10:14 -0500 Hatred of Caliban was the running joke of Shakespeare on the Green’s production of The Tempest. Justified with just five words (“He tried to rape Miranda!”) our cast decided that there was no jest too mean to lev […]

]]> 0 e2220f18011c5670b68ed2da3d0aa5fc Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Challenges to Care: Familial Response to Displacement and Trauma in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10055/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:52:03 -0500 By Jenna Lawson, Clio Lieberman, Helen WarfleThe progression of disaster narratives culminating in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One brought us to reflect on what we know of families in disaster scenarios from our “Parenting in the Zombie Apocalypse” course with Dr. Kirsh. In light of this connection, we challenged ourselves to examine how famil…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b016d8bd2177df3a65e77c987950a5d Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Big Freedia and Queer Erasure in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10040/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:42:22 -0500 When Dr. DeFrantz guest lectured our class on Friday, I was ecstatic to learn more about dance. As a die-hard theater kid who was called “allergic to moving with any sense of purpose” by my high school theater teacher, I was excited to be included in a dancer’s environment in any capacity. Before the class started, I saw Dr. DeFrantz pull up…[Read more]

]]> 0 1aa1a6ae2ef611c4a3cb3d4ffd2f0879 Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post On Romanticization Versus Advocacy for Incarcerated Individuals in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9959/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 03:28:45 -0500 Since we first encountered it a few class sessions ago, I’ve been captivated by Mariame Kaba’s essay “Free Us All,” and its wariness of building movements around individuals. Rather, Kaba cites the #FreeBr […]

]]> 0 d744fb361225303ba1fdbc67a1ed3934 Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Hurricane Iniki: Look at All Those Chickens in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9957/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:02:58 -0500 (Blog title reference)By Jenna Lawson, Jonathan Kalman, Aidan Koch, Madi Bussmann, Clio Lieberman, & Cameron RustayIn Hawaiian, the word “Iniki” has a somewhat contradictory meaning. Some categorize it on a surface level as meaning “strong and piercing wind.” However, a deeper look into Hawaiian language dictionaries turns up the definition “to pin…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee3f70f9330d64aed8fc931ac5f47c2c Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Congratulations, I Played Myself in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9869/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:21:56 -0500 I hope readers of this post will indulge my flippant reference to DJ Khaled. Upon completing my essay on Saturday, I inadvertantly got to experience both a cycle of memory and forgetting as well as violence as the […]

]]> 0 b8ec83fd8a1133adc217ca537913bc4d Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post We Have to Talk About Ray Nagin in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9822/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:24:15 -0500 When Beth suggested the we look into former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin’s fate post “When the Levees Broke,” I felt a sense of dreadful anticipation. I knew corruption was the inevitable conclusion conclusion to […]

]]> 0 8e410b35aea7849025807e3482d7416e Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post On the fear of creating waste in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9619/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:30:50 -0500 I’ve been dreading completing my first blog post. I was avoiding it at all costs, rationalizing its postponement for just a little bit longer each time I opened up this website. It’s taken me until now, but I fin […]

]]> 0 5ae5fdc56c31666f502dcf697d157618 Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Some Thoughts on Modern Indentured Servitude in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8315/ Mon, 01 May 2017 17:55:38 -0500 Hello, everyone! Congratulations on making it almost to the end of the semester. I’ve been thinking a lot about sharecropping, company towns, and other methods of debt slavery-esque practices in recent history. […]

]]> 0 91eb6413a48819d9788b653f86383d61 Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Mr. Blandings' Dream House and Aunt Jemima in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8187/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:16:43 -0500 The end of Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House filled me with a rage I did not anticipate. The Blandings’ maid Gussie ends up saving the day with a slogan for Mr. Blandings’ WHAM advertisement without knowing it, saying “If you ain’t eating WHAM, you ain’t eating ham!” The movie then ends with an advertisement of Gussie’s photo with her slogan…[Read more]

]]> 0 188d56c359eba39de5a90cc92cedd14b Jenna Lawson edited the blog post Invisible Privilege: Wealth Gaps in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8166/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 23:32:48 -0500 Watching Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House during class yesterday, I found Blandings’s inconveniences and dissatisfactions full of deeply unappreciative and bourgeois undertones. What spoke to me specifically was the casual mention of government bonds as a method of buying their dream house and how the accumulation of wealth is heavily i…[Read more]

]]> 0 26e3b43fb37911a80713735e486657dd Jenna Lawson wrote a new blog post Mexico City and How Water Begets Poverty in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8129/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 05:25:30 -0500 The below post is based on the information from this article. All credit to Dr. Ryan Jones and his History of Modern Mexico course for leading me to this information.

As Mexico City, the most populous city in […]

]]> 0 f978b50a4738a3a8a2bf2df1a514ecd8 Jenna Lawson edited the blog post The Origins of the Housing Crisis in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7879/ Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:17:13 -0500 As a History major, I have taken extensive coursework on structural inequalities experienced by black Americans. I’d like to take the time here to share a brief summary of what I’ve learned. All of this information comes either from in-class sessions with Professors Mapes and Crosby or from Thomas Sugrue’s book “The Origins of the Urban Crisis:…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0a6310be7a8ca5007c0a6436cd00ef1 Jenna Lawson joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7782/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:23:10 -0500 0 9d070b2e97cba27fe33c8f15068d4294 Jenna Lawson posted a new page, on the site Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8505/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:58:51 -0500  

 

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This website is primarily concerned with analyzing the way body modification functions as a political and cultural indicator in Ireland following the Easter 1916 Rising. The human body i […]

]]> 0 364a167fea457003bd7fd7e2fb0020ed Jenna Lawson became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7550/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:38:19 -0500 0