Gaga Stigmata: Yale's The American Scholar Magazine

Gaga Stigmata was featured in the Autumn 2011 issue of Yale’s The American Scholar Magazine! Editors Kate Durbin and Meghan Vicks were thrilled to speak with AS about Lady Gaga, 21st-century celebrity and scholarship, and Gaga’s relationship to academic studies. Check out the piece below:  Since March 2010, the online journal Gaga Stigmata has churned out the most intense ongoing critical conversation on the singer. The editors are Meghan...

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The Warrior Queen: Marry The Night, Trauma, Regression, and Recovery

By K.M. ZwickThis is the eighth piece in our series on “Marry the Night.” For the previous pieces, click here.A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.– Sigmund Freud When I look back on my life, it’s not that I don’t want to see things exactly as they happened. It’s just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully, the lie...

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MtN’s Tour de Negative Femininities

By Samantha CohenThis is the seventh piece in our series on “Marry the Night.” For the previous pieces, click here.The home-chopped bob with too-short bangs has always been my favorite haircut. It screams teenage theater girl or aspiring mental patient. It makes me think of knives. The girl with the home-chopped bob is so angry she’ll take a scissors to her hair, cut right into it at random, and probably use the scissors on other things, too. The...

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The Cross is My Anchor: On Learning to Dance Again

By Peter KlineThis is the sixth piece in our series on “Marry the Night.” For the previous pieces, click here.“God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are…God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. – 1 Corinthians...

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