This research seeks to understand how gender conventions influence the stylistic motivations and dress practices of contemporary gay men. Gender rebels: inside the wardrobes of young gay men with subversive style aBstract A constant theme in the history of gay men's dress has been the hyperbolic performance and radical confusion of masculine and feminine gender codes.

Please message me if you would like a copy of this paper. An analysis of the interviews uncovers that media makers were responding to specific negative media portrayals of racialized populations within the popular media discourse. The paper contextualizes Vibe covers within journalistic and political history, and critical race communication theories. in the 90’s, Vibe helped to catapult hip-hop culture into the mainstream. One of the top fifty magazines in the U.S.

Examined will be motivations of the cover makers but also the cover images as cultural artifacts. For this discussion, I draw on a visual analysis of four Vibe magazine covers and interviews with Vibe’s founders and current media workers. 'This paper examines Vibe magazine as a vehicle for disrupting mainstream press visual narratives about African Americans in general and Black youth in particular while also reproducing patriarchal imagery of African American women. This is the longer version of my published paper on Vibe magazine covers.

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