Media
Let's rethink the messages we send women and girls
Montreal Gazette, October 11, 2017Online
URL: https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-lets-rethink-the-messages-we-send-women-and-girls
It's essential to remove implicit cultural, gender and racial biases from dress codes and attitudes.
Why ‘Lady Macbeth’ Is The Intersectional Feminist Film You Didn’t Know You Needed
by Desirée de Jesus
Published by Another Gaze
September 6, 2018
This article demonstrates how critical and popular celebrations of feminist themes in 'Lady Macbeth' overlook the ways that the film's narrative conceals and preserves other systems of oppression.
URL: https://www.anothergaze.com/lady-macbeth-feminist-intersectional-feminist-film-didnt-know-needed/
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? Racial Identity and the Irrationality of Religious Belief in Firefly and Serenity
by Desirée de Jesus
Published by Joss Whedon and Religion: Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred
September 7, 2013
This article argues that Whedon's popular television series and its film sequel reproduce the historic representation of black masculinity as the negative image of heroic white masculinity in order to constitute a de jure objection against religious belief.
Biography
Desirée de Jesus received a Ph.D. in Film and Moving Image Studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. Her research focuses on representations of girls and women in popular culture. She is currently producing a series of video essays that feature the work of female filmmakers and examine stories about female experiences. Her writing has been published in Alphaville, Another Gaze, Montreal Gazette, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Religion and Film, and others. Her research has received various scholarships, namely the Bourse d'études Hydro-Quèbec de l'Université Concordia and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. She was a 2017-2018 Concordia University Public Scholar.