... Johnston had a devoted readership who came to experience reading as an embodied act in consuming her Village Voice column and even imitating her style and look. This chapter analyzes fan mail from these readers, both that sent directly to Johnston and those letters published in the Village...

... fandom embodied reading Village Voice ...

... Tristan starts writing for On Our Backs and has a masturbation session with Betty Dodson. She becomes a columnist for the Village Voice . Adventure Girl On Our Backs Betty Dodson Village Voice New York City ...

... queer adolescence mother-daughter relationships Village Voice ...

... dance criticism Village Voice Susan Sontag Audre Lorde ...

... hip-hop Black culture 1970s Village Voice Pan-Afrikanism ...

... coming out lesbian feminism Pauline Oliveros Daughters of Bilitis Village Voice ...

... Adventure Girl On Our Backs Betty Dodson Village Voice New York City ...

... Chapter 7 focuses on Jill Johnston’s writing about her personal life, particularly her childhood and her relationship to her mother. queer adolescence mother-daughter relationships Village Voice ...

.... It then examines her dance criticism: both her writing about the Judson Dance Theater in New York City and her contributions, from 1955 to 1965, to the Dance Observer, ARTnews , and the Village Voice . The chapter also includes a comparison among theories about erotics and writing, through a discussion...

... Chapter 1 includes writing done by Jill Johnston that emphasizes generalizable claims. Pieces focus on both dance and gender, and these include works published in Dance Observer in the 1950s and the Village Voice in the 1960s and 1970s. feminist theory queer theory dance theory ...

... Oliveros Daughters of Bilitis Village Voice ...

... that he’d rather be a mediocre musician than a great writer. hip-hop Black culture 1970s Village Voice Pan-Afrikanism ...

... he published the first major article on hip hop (in the Village Voice ) in September. Baker and Robie went on to lead the citywide charge into electronics, Malcolm McLaren contributed “Buffalo Gals,” and Man Parrish’s “Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” took rap further into electronic territory...

... when the Clash began their eight-night run at Bond’s and scheduled the lineup to appear as their first supporting act. Breaking began to attract more attention when Sally Banes and photographer Martha Cooper published the first feature on the form in the Village Voice . Following an introduction...

... later, “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five carried rap into social realist territory. Steven Hager focused on Bambaataa rather than Flash when he published the first major article on hip hop (in the Village Voice ) in September. Baker and Robie went on to lead the citywide charge...

... supporting act. Breaking began to attract more attention when Sally Banes and photographer Martha Cooper published the first feature on the form in the Village Voice . Following an introduction to Malcolm McLaren, Michael Holman staged a Zulu Nation warm-up show at the Ritz for McLaren’s band Bow Wow Wow...

... Chapter 14 explores how Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) became a new protest site for young Hong Kong protesters. As a life-simulation video game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons gives players a customizable character that can create and decorate a village for a community by developing...

... the country a model well worth examining. Part III, “Bending toward Reconciliation” brings out some quieter voices of people who never sought the limelight but whose experiences put them in the vanguard of reunification. Showing selfless courage and driven by a deep sense of greater good, these women rose...

... and networked play with trusted protesters, and to make public their voices within and beyond the in-game villages. Looking at the protesters’ microscaled playful protest based on the game, this chapter also sees how they circulated the captured or recorded in-game protest scenes across social media and how...