2024 UMKC Theses - Access Restricted to UMKC

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(2024) Veilleux, Hayley; Terrell, Whitney
This hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and poems explores contemporary ways of being, neuroses, personal relationships, mental illness, and aims to pinpoint how these elements influence one another. I am interested in how society shapes social thought, and in many of my essays and poems I offer my lived experiences as a means of gathering evidence of the failures intrinsic to capitalism’s design. I am constantly overwhelmed by the fast-paced, consumeristic, and destructive ideologies that accompany modern life’s recipe for survival, and this collection seeks to document the place where illness, the individual, and society merge.
Tour of my bedside cabinet
(2024) Benevento, Claire; Bar-Nadav, Hadara
This thesis, Tour of my Bedside Cabinet, is a collection of poems about the speaker’s relationship with religion, queer identities, and sex/BDSM. The collection is split into sections, each of which begin with a retelling or reimagining of the creation story found in the book of Genesis. These retellings aim to illustrate the inconsistencies in the conception of the Christian god as all knowing, all powerful, and loving. Other poems in the collection are more personal, discussing the speaker’s experiences with Catholicism, as well as discoveries of bisexual and nonbinary identities, and sexual exploration. The collection begins with early realizations of these aspects of identity, moves through periods of uncertainty, and ends with a speaker more sure of who they are and what they want.

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