Morgan Oddie

Queen's University | QueensU · Cultural Studies

BDSM (Bondage/Domination/submission/Sadism/Masochism) is often assumed to be automatically subversive of gender and sexual norms through its non-normative sexual practices. By deliberately or unintentionally ignoring race, there is considerable risk of the perpetuation of tacitly racist, neoliberal and hegemonic ideologies about sexuality and intim...

Bandit Queen (1994, dir. Shekhar Kapur) is not an obvious inclusion in an Indian horror film anthology. The controversial film portrays the real-life story of Phoolan Devi and includes graphic depictions of rape and violence. This chapter examines subaltern subjectivity, the double-bind of production and representation, and the portrayal of Devi as...

Bondage/Discipline/Dominance/submission/Sadism/Masochism (BDSM) is most frequently conceptualized as only non-normative, 'kinky' sex. In this dissertation, I combine feminist ethnographic accounts of women's experiences as BDSM practitioners alongside theoretical frameworks of gendered embodiment to propose a reading of some BDSM practices as other...

Reflecting on pedagogy and the translation of academic to popular knowledge, I briefly explain the role of an academic blog assignment in my Teaching Fellowship with the Queen's School of Religion.

Film review of feminist horror anthology "XX" (2017), directed by Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, and Karen Kusama, Magnet Releasing and XYZ Films Productions.

This paper argues that the lack of clear definition of religion for broad application has resulted in some arbitrariness in the accommodation of religious practice and thus in failures to adequately respect religious freedom. More specifically, eliminating the hegemonic lens of a Christian religious framework is necessary for reconceiving the legal...

Religion and nationalism can be imbricated without presupposing either analogous or causal relationships between these terms. Myth is pivotal to the imbrication of religion and nationalism. In Sri Lanka, the Mahāvaṃsa illustrates this relationship, because it has articulated the foundation of a Sinhalese nationalism which justifies violence against...