Weekly(ish) Journal
Week 1: Introduction to the MRes
Week 2: Angela Chen, Barbie, and the Evangelical Christianity Rabbit Hole
Week 3: Brainstorming, Reading List/Watchlist Thoughts, and more Angela Chen
Week 4: Croteau, Hoynes, and Sex Education
Week 5: Brainstorming, Croteau and Hoynes, Sherronda J. Brown, and a Long Methodology Tangent
Week 6: Dubious Sitcoms, Content Analysis, Sherronda J. Brown, a Fun Trip to London, and My New Best Friend Laura Mulvey
Week 7: The End of Sherronda J. Brown, the Beginning of Getting Ethics Committee-d, and My Other New Best Friend Michel Foucault
Week 8: Revising my Research Question, House, Game of Thrones, the Return of Sex Education, and A Lot of Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Week 9: Contextual Review and More Methodology Tangents
Week 10: OH BOY GUYS I HOPE YOU'RE REALLY INTERESTED IN RESEARCH METHODS
Week 11: Gender, Class, Race, and Editing the Contextual Review
Week 12: To do lists, Gender and Media, and the Ace in the UK Report
Week 13: Young, Dyer, Doing Interviews, and some contextual review outtakes
Week 14: The Infamous Hand-in Week
Interlude 1: How I lost my mind trying to write an ethics proposal
Week 15: Crawling Out of the Ethics Proposal Hole
Week 16: Back to Tutorials and Back to Sex Education
Week 17: A Second Fun Trip to London, The Sexual Subject, Minimizing Marriage, and the Sad Horse Show
Week 18: More Minimizing Marriage, More Sad Horse Show, The History of Sexuality, and a Musical Theatre Tangent
Week 19: Aro Awareness Week, The End of the Sad Horse Show, The Beginning of the Teen Shows and Documentaries Deep Dive, and Yet More Brake and Foucault
Week 20: Brake, Focus Group Thoughts, the Human Library, a lot of Thoughts About Animation, Three Whole TV Shows, a Long Buffy Tangent, and Everything Going Really Fine
Week 21: Barcelona Trip and The Last of Foucault
Week 22: TV Handbooks, Teen TV, Two Billion Aromanticism Articles, Heartstopper, and way too many Tangents About Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Week 23: The Dreaded Presentation, The Even More Dreaded Thesis Draft, Open TV, and Generation
Week 24: International Asexuality Day, the end of Brake and Generation, and Fun Trip to London...3!
Week 25: More IAD Panels, Learning About Focus Groups and Thematic Analysis, the start of The Imperfects, and the Triumphant Return of Heartbreak High
Week 26: More Thematic Analysis and Imperfects, The Celluloid Closet, and a Fake Focus Group (Fake-us Group?)
Week 27: The End of Thematic Analysis (the book), the Start of Thematic Analysis (the process), and Fake-us Group Feedback
Week 28: Summative Review and Thesis Week AKA How I Survived Seven Metaphorical Nukes Dropping on me All At Once (not that I'm being dramatic about it or anything)
Week 29: Unit Hand-in!!
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