Author: Jojo Katsbulas
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Something About Space Dude: An Auto-Ethnographic Study on Queer Identity Formation
Something About Space, Dude: An Auto-Ethnographic Study On Queer Identity Formation Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies WGSS 601- Seminar in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Dr. Jeanne Vaccaro Jojo Katsbulas May 1, 2023 Ray Bull, I Wanna Be Your Car Embarrassingly enough, I have only ever been to a gay bar once. To Read more
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Something About Space Dude: An Auto-Ethnographic Study on Queer Identity Formation
Jojo Katsbulas’ award-winning undergraduate capstone research study on the relationships between music, nightlife, the environments we occupy, and their influence on our identity development. Produced for the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Read more
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A Critique on Sarah Hoagland’s “Separating From Heterosexualism”
Sarah Hoagland’s Separating from Heterosexualism takes an extreme-separatist approach in order to resist gender-based oppression. Hoagland argues that heterosexualism is, “an entire way of living which involves a delicate, though at times indelicate, balance between masculine predation upon and masculine protection of a feminine object of masculine attention” and that resisting oppression under the system of heterosexualism Read more
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Attempted Motherhood
dear mom, i’m writing you this because i miss what could’ve been. i want a mom who is my best friend – i always hear people talk about that. this isn’t how it has to be, but i can’t gift my time without your support. dear mom, i’m jealous of my siblings. i’m not sure Read more
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Act Two: San Francisco
I cannot find God. I have looked everywhere for him, or her, or them, or whatever the fuck is politically correct these days. Every journey of self-discovery, every trial and tribulation I have faced, every church, every single time I look, I come up empty handed. I’ve tried Catholicism, Islam, even Buddhism, but God is Read more
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San Francisco – English 105
I cannot find God. I have looked everywhere for him, or her, or them, or whatever the fuck is politically correct these days. Every journey of self-discovery, every trial and tribulation I have faced, every church, every single time I look, I come up empty handed. I’ve tried Catholicism, Islam, even Buddhism, but God is Read more
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Finding My Pride – English 102
Have you ever lived in a constant state of panic? Have you lived under the weight of a crushing secret that could ruin your life? Have you ever dreaded speaking to your family members, the people in life that you should be closest with? Have you ever lived with overbearing anxiety because your friends, or Read more
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Act I: Dear God
Dear god, where are you? Dear god, I turned 18 today. This doesn’t particularly mean anything to me, but by society’s standards I am mature enough to make my own decisions. I don’t have many decisions to make, but there is one I want to settle: Where are you? Dear god, I have been told Read more