Jason

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Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Graduate Student
Location	Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
Introduction	PhD candidate in the School of Media at Indiana University. I've taught courses that incorporate elements of popular culture and mass media with issues of social justice and cultural change. I'm currently living in Los Angeles working on my dissertation, which covers the history of gays and lesbians in American mainstream news, including the relatively recent media fascination with "bullying" as a way to describe social injustice, especially with regard to LGBTQ people.
Interests	Film & Television, News, Pop culture, Social justice
Favorite Movies	Todd Haynes, Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, P.T. Anderson, Douglas Sirk, George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan
Favorite Books	Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault