Gender Studies

Assimilation or Abolition: Protecting Trans Prisoners

In the spring of 2020, I wrote this blogpost for WS 340: Sex, Power, and Politics, taught by Dr. Holloway Sparks. In this essay, I was instructed to explore a policy issue and analyze its gendered impacts. This post demonstrates my ability to analyze differing activists’ strategies and policy recommendations and understand their impacts on …

International Relations

Shifting State Power: A Constructivist Reading of Wag the Dog

Photo: Wag the Dog. New Line Cinema, 1997. Used under Fair Use license. In the spring 2020, I wrote this short film analysis for POL 326: International Relations Theories, taught by Dr. Eleanor Morris. Drawing on my knowledge of constructivist and realist international relations theories, I argued for a critical reading of the film Wag …

Gender Studies International Relations

It’s a Man’s World: A Feminist Analysis of Lord of the Flies and International Relations

Photo: Lord of the Flies. 1963. Great Britain. Used under Fair Use license. I wrote this essay for POL 326: International Relations Theories, taught by Dr. Eleanor Morris. This was one of my first attempts to intentionally combine my gender studies work and international relations work, which is demonstrated through my extensive use of prominent …

Gender Studies

Criminalization, Correspondence, and Community: The Possibilities of Photo Feature and Trans Incarceration

I wrote this short essay in the Fall of 2019 for WS 110: Intro to Queer Studies, taught by Dr. Lauran Whitworth. The purpose of this assignment was to analyze an archival object using assigned course readings. By using a piece of art created by an incarcerated trans woman who I am friends with, I …

Gender Studies Projects

Gendered As (Un)Usual: Critical Trans Politics and Routine Police Violence

Photo: 2020, Arin Yost. Photographed by Jordan Keesler, used with permission. All rights reserved. In the spring of 2020, I was accepted to present my paper “Gendered as (Un)Usual” at two conferences: the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association and Bodies of Knowledge 2020: Reenvisioning Transgender. Unfortunately, both of these events were postponed due to the COVID-19 …

Gender Studies Projects

Resisting Erasure: A Virtual Exhibition

Throughout the fall 2019 semester, I, along with several other students, developed a virtual exhibition on the diverse strategies and tools that have been employed by LGBTQ+ people to resist the traumatic erasure they face. This work was done under the mentorship of Dr. Lauran Whitworth and can be found here. In connection with this …

Projects

Workshop Committee: Essential Elements of Writing Series

In the fall of 2019, I began my first semester with the Agnes Scott College Center for Writing and Speaking. Besides my regular tutoring hours spent in collaboration with students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, I was assigned to the Workshop Committee. The Workshop Committee at Agnes Scott develops and presents educational curriculum …

Projects

World Refugee Day with Abba’s House Texas

Photo: 2020, Arin Yost. Photographed by Michael Meissner, used with permission. All rights reserved. During the summer of 2018, I interned with Abba’s House Texas, a refugee resettlement agency, to expand their community outreach and assist refugee and immigrant families in transitioning to life in America. This work was funded by the Hubert Scholarship, awarded …