Two early-2010s films. Two “good girls” performing social stigma without enduring its material consequences. Easy A and The Pregnancy Project are stories about visibility, performative marginalization, and the commodification of female suffering in modern media culture.
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Cinematic Cynicism vs. Performative Activism: The Ethics of Fabricated Trauma in Easy A and The Pregnancy Project

The landscape of twenty-first-century media is deeply concerned with the mechanisms of public judgment and the curation of identity. This preoccupation manifests in two distinct cinematic texts fro…

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The title of “Scarlet Begonias”, by The Grateful Dead

The title of the Grateful Dead's "Scarlet Begonias" ("From the Mars Hotel", 1974, lyrics by Robert Hunter) is in the song: "She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls." Preparing for class discussion, I thought of the song "Barbara Allen": "In Scarlet Town, where I was born." I found a

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🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**

“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”

Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.

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Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

<strong>Signature:</strong> Lower left, in pen and ink: "F.O.C. Darley fecit"<br/><br/><strong>Inscription:</strong> Upper center, in graphite: "The Market Place."<br/>Upper right in ink: "1."<br/>Lower center, in graphite: "She took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning / blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that / would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbors

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Lars Hanson and Lillian Gish in “The Scarlet Letter”
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Well now she’s gonna get put in the stockades for “throwing bloomers into the bushes instead of hiding them in the darkness out of shame like god intended”
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