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"otherness" Definitions
  1. the fact of being different or strange

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She continues to look for new sources of otherness in her life, and to give us glimpses of the otherness she inhabits.
But neither is used to mock or accentuate his otherness.
The fallout from the note just reinforced their perceived otherness.
I wish I had recognized your otherness and embraced it.
Other Bowie characters tapped into a similar sort of otherness.
They had embraced their otherness, and they had cultivated it.
Will isolationism and a hatred of otherness rule the roost?
There is a respect and a delight taken in otherness.
"Soot and Spit," though, is overtly about disability and otherness.
Instead, Julia's otherness is marked using an array of other signifiers.
It was a rhetorical tool of separation and otherness, he said.
This "otherness" that's all of a sudden part of our culture.
"Homo," which is shot in color, reverses the angle on otherness.
Through her work, she addresses ostracism, otherness, racial "passing" and racism.
Being queer is about beautiful community, glittering otherness, and unapologetic love.
It is a vision of otherness made visible by familiar materials.
As a self-concocted alien, he was drawn to other people's otherness.
She finds otherness where she  encounters it, which is no small thing.
The winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt on love, longing and otherness.
That's an ethnocentric meme that perpetuates the problems of "otherness" and invisibility.
Sometimes AI is in the story to make a point about otherness.
HARTFORD "Transcending the In-Between," lecture on "otherness" by Anida Yoeu Ali.
There is an otherness to Watanabe's clothes, a removal from the norm.
"You don't have to be reminded of your otherness there," he said.
But for Asians in America, there is a starker sense of otherness.
This sense of "otherness" has at times brought shame, isolation, and despair.
Even though they were my friends, my "otherness" was pointed out so often.
Black bodies in America are carriers of the most virulent strain of otherness.
The scapegoating of otherness by miserable people cannot be justified by their misery.
It's about otherness and people's wariness of difference, and also about slut-shaming.
And some of it stems, simply, from an island-centric sense of otherness.
But the hateful actions against otherness are alive, emboldened and harming people now.
"We need their beauty and otherness, their delicate and fragile strength," he writes.
The feeling of otherness flared when she visited Princeton as a potential applicant.
"This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it," he also wrote.
If you don't like the soundtrack of otherness, go back to the land.
I wanted him to declare his name rather than defer to its otherness.
Disney has a checkered past when it comes to depicting any kind of otherness.
And when it comes to "otherness," a clown has that part down pretty well.
I wouldn't attempt to hide my otherness and pass for what I was not.
Not divided by our otherness, but embracing it as we have done for generations.
To the white Briton, the hyphenated identity — Bangladeshi-British, Pakistani-British — only highlights otherness.
And it did this by "teaching Americans to recognize otherness," as Rorty put it.
Through these otherworldly characters, Mauri discusses otherness in a world afflicted with ideological divisions.
Admittedly, though, some of this "otherness" has nothing to do with the iOS interface.
"In Western democracy, these questions of outsider-ness, or otherness, are pervasive," Mendelsohn said.
These are set against anxieties about otherness, about control and the loss of it.
Britain's vote to leave the EU was indeed partly a reflection of its "otherness".
It allowed an experience of otherness, and the lives of others, that was impossible otherwise.
The media too can help open up societies, or at least expose them to otherness.
She is focused on how otherness is constructed visually on the gendered, sexualized, racialized body.
You aren't exposed to other people, other cultures, other experiences — and that otherness scares you.
LVC: When did the concepts of otherness and subjugation become central to your art practice?
But though I learned this the hard way, I was able to flee my otherness.
Instead, he transforms Elisa's otherness — symbolized through the scars on her neck — into a power.
By that he means Canada welcomes immigrants and embraces their "otherness" perhaps more than America.
"For me, the film is about refugees and immigration and otherness," Edgerton told Entertainment Weekly.
Most recently, I created a digital storybook that showcased 244 conversations around race and otherness.
Through the visceral otherness of the experience, the film captures a growing sense of alienation.
From horror to pity and everything in between, the shifting attitudes toward otherness are pervasive.
It was also the moment when I saw the messy birth of my son's otherness.
It's this persistent sense of otherness that a lot of us struggle with every day.
"I don't just mean in terms of gender or orientation, but just otherness," he said.
They embody an otherness that refuses to be domesticated by language, that renders categories moot.
Unfortunately, no matter the intent, inclusion loses meaning if it exacerbates the Otherness of minorities.
Positions of otherness become the site of real resistance, of collective strength, and of success.
But it was a French Muslim woman who pointed out what was my real otherness.
In the case of the Kardashians, this otherness contributes to their brands in very interesting ways.
It speaks to a continuing sense of otherness; to perceptions of what is normal, and not.
That is due in part to the climate this president has set of division, of otherness.
The myth shows dualism, male to female, happy to sad, love to unloved, familiar to otherness.
This perceptive poetry collection examines the forces of racism and otherness long entrenched in American life.
Then I settled on exploring the idea of otherness and its impact on the human psyche.
Ties The thrill of 'otherness' was less delightful to my children than it was to me.
This question aggravated my already overwhelmed state of being and increased my sense of isolated otherness.
The difference is that we now live in a time where that otherness is itself valuable.
The impenetrability of autism, with its seemingly endless variants and its essential "otherness," is its hallmark.
That, forced to speak the same homogeneous language, local artists are continuously encouraged to turn the volume up on their own "otherness," whatever it may be, to crow it from the rooftops in the hopes of being heard above the cacophony, thus further exoticizing/centering that otherness.
Even the landscape in Tracey Moffatt and Huma Bhabha's photographs is imbued with the beauty of otherness.
Picturing Passion is fundamentally about Anglo artists — their misconceptions and biases, and their fascination with perceived otherness.
Britain's otherness was good for Europe, a welcome speck of liberal grit in the unctuous continental oyster.
Yet their rhetoric relies on subjecting their perceived opponents to the very "otherness" they say they're fighting.
A queering otherness to Olivia can be detected in her name, which is English and not French.
The culture we worked in normalized our otherness just as much, if not more, than vanilla society.
Then living with a handful of undiagnosed mental illnesses, Daniel conveyed a distant otherness in his music.
We cannot domesticate the otherness of Winkfield's images, what I have been calling his totems and personnages.
Its paranoia is of the moment, too, for many with a grain of Otherness in their makeup.
"The Roommate" likewise asked its audience to look at the experience of otherness from a new perspective.
It has AbEx sweep, Pop verve and an otherness that makes it a world of its own.
Before that, they were seen as landscapes of evil otherness, where the tempestuous gods exercised their wrath.
Ana: Has "otherness" impacted the way your relationships develop, even apart from the idea of citizenship and deportation?
In retrospect, perhaps it was also a perverse way of embracing my otherness as a black immigrant girl.
In recent years, the target of nativist anxiety about otherness in Britain has shifted from black to Muslim.
The singer then surprised guests at The Saguaro in Palm Springs for the vodka brand's "Find Otherness" party.
Some deep-seated belief that stamped-on-your-forehead otherness would make for a better, more interesting person.
I was interested in exploring stories of otherness to extract common themes that extended beyond race and gender.
But mostly it seems astounding that these experiences, everyday otherness felt by the writers, are stories rarely heard.
Even in London in this relatively modern era she senses the feelers reaching out to ascertain her otherness.
And tiki's determined "exoticism," with its cultural appropriations and discomfiting evocation of otherness, reasonably put some drinkers off.
Witnessing the feverish pursuit for documentation of "otherness" reflected back at me my own motives for being there.
In the continuing struggle with the otherness that comes with being an immigrant, tennis was my secret weapon.
But it was also a way to think about the nation's fault lines of race, ethnicity and otherness.
The most distressing present-day crowds are those whose politics are built from fear and outrage against otherness.
What Russia actually represented, as a fashion inspiration — in 1909 as well as in 103 — was, simply, otherness.
And it's this roaring that might soothe some German voters that long for a uniform homeland -- without otherness.
This shows that perception of "otherness" is like a dial in our minds that can be turned on.
"Israel is a place of radical otherness, where every single person is an other for someone else," he said.
It's a balancing act in these tales, between accepting otherness, accepting the freak and the outsider, or stigmatizing them.
Do you see that "otherness" reflected in the kind of people who tend to gravitate towards your music too?
What UFOs – from which the USOs are surely derived – and pre-Columbian forms have in common is their otherness.
Subsequently, Champignons provides a pleasant but insufficient visual metaphor for the strange otherness that mushrooms actually offer and embody.
Throughout his childhood, this otherness—expressions of Eddy largely beyond his control—elicit violence and lead to internalized shame.
Burton's style makes the mundane eerie, highlighting its otherness, the idea that lurking beneath the humdrum lies something unfamiliar.
It was Avedon's Jewishness and old Wasp dislike of that Jewishness, with its perceived cultural power despite its Otherness.
But in a way, this landmark to ambiguously defined otherness is exactly what the United States of today needs.
To Americans and Europeans, they can be a sign of otherness and culpability, as well as an implicit accusation.
To Americans and Europeans, they can be a sign of otherness and culpability, as well as an implicit accusation.
With lyrical intensity, Ms. Legler describes her teenage years as being overwhelmed by an almost existential sense of otherness.
It's this denial of the right to simply be — the perpetual state of otherness — that dangerously shadows black people.
Perhaps you have to have a Jew's history of exclusion and otherness and a Jew's audacity to do that.
In Ohio and even at Boston University, where I got my B.F.A., I didn't have a sense of otherness.
The roast turkey and apple pie — nice things, good things, but things that are not necessarily striving for otherness.
Including both Braille and the written alphabet on the bricks would remove the notion of "otherness," her mother said.
In the new short film Watching You Watching Me, director Pamela Romanowsky explores perception, judgment, and the feeling of otherness.
They do not address the systemic social, economic, political and personal drivers of racism, xenophobia and irrational fear of otherness.
This became an exaggeration of otherness, a disturbance/discomfort that I could explore both within myself and with a viewer.
The actor Daniel Kublick has a sweet otherness about him, and a sort of genius for seeming a little dim.
Perhaps because of that, our family mornings of canned meat sometimes felt sort of like a source of unwanted otherness.
It was like the volume on his otherness had been abruptly turned down and something else had been turned up.
He has given his Republican supporters permission to vocalize their anti-otherness rage, and that will not easily be undone.
The answer seems to hinge on society's ability to shed its prejudices and move past that stigmatizing sense of otherness.
But where does that leave me, and others like me, as we tiptoe around the sensitive subject of our otherness?
We are always someone's alluring stranger: The question is how to understand that otherness in artistic terms without fetishizing it.
Many recalled first becoming aware of their "otherness" as young children and said that slurs have followed them into adulthood.
Many recalled first becoming aware of their "otherness" as young children and said that slurs had followed them into adulthood.
Lay aside racial identities for a second: think alternative species, digital personalities, and robots—otherness of the most radical variety.
" He added, "The more we can normalize diversity and remove the concept of 'otherness,' the better off we'll all be.
" Yalouri added:, "It will be interesting to see how Documenta as a whole can avoid homogenizing different kinds of 'otherness.
The entire cast of Seinfeld filled in that role for the buffoon-like philosopher in Kramer because his otherness needed translation.
I used to try to assert my otherness, to put on a performance to convince others I'm a real Puerto Rican.
The early X-Men films reflected on issues of bigotry and otherness—racial, sexual, and even integrated historic moments of genocide.
With this piece, Safoğlu proves himself to be a nuanced storyteller, a capable historian for "otherness," and a queerer of history.
Twenty lines, yet they conjured up such a world to me: another love fertilized by the thrilling otherness of wartime Alexandria.
The otherness of bats infuses them with a power that Keister makes further apparent through his use of irregular abstract forms.
What was important was the natural otherness of the place: the wind, the sun, the volcano, this very fierce natural environment.
Amy Frishkey, one of the programmers, understands the otherness of picking the music that people hear between the train-boarding announcements.
Her apparent otherness, she felt, made the writers self-conscious—and awareness of intersectionality wasn't then thought of as a virtue.
Luger's is an Otherness that seeks not approval; it stands independent, an Other with its own embrace around a thriving universe.
" A biracial lesbian who noted she had worked in mostly male-dominated jobs, she called herself "a whole lot of otherness.
Because we initially felt so connected, like we were one, we have a hard time experiencing the otherness of our spouse.
In the West, the image of Asian people with masks is sometimes wielded, deliberately or not, as a signifier of otherness.
"Hole Girl" fan fiction and fan art spring up as everyone realizes "we all have holes" — feelings of loneliness, grief, otherness.
That's why I also think blackness can be a metaphor for otherness, for being the underdog, the villain, the black worker.
Luger's is an Otherness that seeks not approval; it stands independent, an Other with its own embrace around a thriving universe.
The "asset" represents the ultimate Otherness, while Strickland is a butt-chinned Anglo-Saxon white man driven and coerced by power.
"It's important to exchange untold stories—that's the only way in which we can improve our understanding of otherness," she explains.
The possibilities for exploring morality, justice, ethics, otherness — things the Western has always been interested in — are ripe for the picking.
For example, the fact that the character Teacher Stuart (Sheppard) has become emotionally involved with Teacher Caroline (Kidwell) remains hidden for some time, and when their relationship is revealed, it's shown to be deeply inflected by a fixation on the other's racialized otherness, though that otherness is also treated as something to be protected from strangers' contempt.
There's something to be said for how taxing it is on the mind and body to have "otherness" relentlessly heaved upon you.
On the other hand, issues around race, gender, sexuality, and "otherness" are still very much with us, although in slightly altered form.
It means celebrating and embracing it with us, and not using our embodiment of otherness as a prop for your good time.
He accepts "an embrace of otherness" and drifts through the hedonism of postwar Paris, while flirting with the politics of Arab liberation.
"Living in Gaza, I felt the fear that plagued us all, and the otherness and hopelessness the wall now embodies," he added.
From the mainstream's perspective, there was a profound otherness to these outsiders, with their strange accents and manners and slapdash production values.
American policy in Vietnam envisioned "strategic hamlets" or walled villages, "safe from the darkening influences of the surrounding Otherness," Mr. Sorkin noted.
Multiculturalism, as it's now called, was about preserving otherness, preserving our differences; it doesn't oblige us to cease to notice those differences.
While Provincetown is residually bohemian and Palm Springs outwardly conventional, both offer the same promise of protection, a camaraderie of shared otherness.
Released in 2017 with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates, this book is a meditation on the concept of 'Otherness' in America.
Not to mention Milemarker's music itself, which propelled the angular innovations of Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu into new realms of robotic otherness.
Two are fellow Facebook engineers, Ben Maurer and Olaoluwa Okelola, both of whom shared some sense of lifelong "otherness" they could never pinpoint.
The idea of labeling it as dirty is a good, yet extremely depressing, illustration of the unwanted otherness that it represents to some.
But much of that engagement stems from fear — fear of otherness on the right and fear of tyranny in the center and left.
And there are many surreal photographs that feature actual humans, humans whose bodies (like those of Iturbide's Holy Thursday siblings) stray into otherness.
And while she shares certain of his preoccupations — with otherness and evoking animal life — hers is a more prosaic mission: She mirrors reality.
But large housing "projects" came to dominate urban landscapes and symbolize for many the unruliness and otherness of the "inner city" in decline.
Mindful of Orientalist clichés, Siler downplays the role of culture, in particular the genuine "otherness" of early Chinese immigrants, in shaping white attitudes.
Kafka had a reflexive instinct for what Philip Larkin termed the "importance of elsewhere": Remoteness and otherness were for him conditions of desirability.
He was never beaten up like Javed's dad, but his name's been shortened, his accent mocked and his otherness scorned by co-workers.
" Despite this abiding attraction to otherness, at lunch I asked Audiard what had led him to open that can of worms with "Dheepan.
Kindness—the English musician born Adam Bainbridge—has been working mostly behind the scenes since they released their sophomore album Otherness in 2014.
" Even those Russians who are not supporters of Mr. Putin often deny their Ukrainian neighbors a separate identity and do not recognize Ukrainian "otherness.
She named her position to the world, or rather to the art world, as a designation of otherness and refusal, rejection and critical defection.
For all the problems in the movie that center around his character, the way his alien "otherness" leans into creepy is at least unique.
That its arrival also feels perfectly timed in this presidential election year, when politicians traffic in fears of outsiders and otherness, is less surprising.
Kindness' Adam Bainbridge has been busy working with artists like Solange, Blood Orange, and Robyn, since they released their last album in 2014, Otherness.
Their clear knowledge of art as an "open work" analogy weaves together their disheveled items of non-hierarchal otherness under the umbrella of recuperation.
I am acutely aware that to the extent otherness is increasingly accepted, it is of the variety that most Japanese people can immediately see.
Issues of identity, otherness and discrimination are equally complicated in Mehra's "Nobody pray for me" and in works by Toronto-based artist Abbas Akhavan.
We may finally be reconsidering these biases, but anyone who has ever been left outside the canon will always be defined by their otherness.
" — Second-year MFA student Travis Austin "We're all making completely different types of work in different medias but somehow our 'otherness' binds us together.
We continue to act as racial managers, clinging to the job of setting the culture's terms and measuring everyone else's otherness against those terms.
Not short on discomfiting scenes, "Waking Lions" offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront their own blind spots and preconceptions.
Given all the excellent writing about the challenges of rendering otherness, someone who asks this question in 2019 probably has not done the reading.
This unassuming empathy — the refusal of the filmmakers to stamp their subjects with otherness — makes the losses the characters endure all the more devastating.
This isn't a profession brimming in a rainbow coalition of representation; it can be flat and reduce your otherness to cater to a white audience.
The morbid sensibility of the Addams family serves as a metaphor for any kind of otherness that prevents bigots from seeing their neighbors as equals.
The New Mexico Museum of Art's Picturing Passion: Artists Interpret the Penitente Brotherhood confronts representation, truth, and otherness in depictions of the storied religious organization.
Just above the center of the photograph, the baby's one unobscured eye stares up at what we cannot see, evoking vulnerability and an eerie otherness.
Indeed, among artists appropriating African art, it was Modigliani's identification with his subject's "otherness," rather than a fascination with the exotic, that set him apart.
From Greek mythology to Beauty and the Beast, Shape of Water joins a long, well-established history of erotic monster tales used to address otherness.
Yes, the chorus, I guess, fits the theme of the game—the exploration of an otherness, a darker side to what we can usually see.
Ideally, there is space for people's differences and otherness to be expressed without having to lose the relationship, or having to abandon or sacrifice yourself.
Leslie Harter Zemeckis sets her sights on the story of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton to explore our uniquely American flair for exploiting otherness.
There's a lot of weird otherness coming here, and maybe it can suggest that you can re-envision any weird space to be a utopia.
The totality amounted to a continual homage to a defiant multifaceted Otherness that was central to her finely detailed paintings and captured in staged photographs.
Yinka Shonibare MBE has focused on two primary concerns throughout his career: his perspective on "otherness" and his awareness of the subtle intricacies of prejudice.
" In a later book, Professor Berger recounted his own religious discovery that there was an "otherness which lurks behind the fragile structures of everyday life.
There are clear strains of Anton's dark anti-otherness in Trump's immigration ban, the talk of a border wall and the appeals to evangelical Christians.
What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.
But rather than bemoan its longtime status as stepchild to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ms. Pasternak said the Brooklyn Museum should celebrate its otherness.
Agassiz realized that he could use daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, to document "evidence of the otherness of the black body," according to the suit.
She conveys the innate sense of queerness (as in otherness) typical of prophetic figures, who partook both of the human and of the divine space.
Our country may be ushering in an administration that's hostile to difference and afraid of otherness, but little by little, Hollywood is proving that it's not.
There's some exploration of the simultaneous complicity and otherness of being a 'Model Minority' that Sean and I have some experience with as East Asian Americans.
Naturally, I roll with "otherness" over the comforts of "normal" because to do otherwise would be to erase the thing that allows me to feel represented.
Fully aware of her otherness, Kyung Me conveys precisely what cultural norms she fails to conform to — though not for a lack of desire or trying.
The quiet, playful presence of the mammoth was a comfort, but there too was an otherness, a difference bridged by solidarity but not quite by understanding.
Watching You Watching Me is a perfect example of how we react to otherness — and how it feels to have those microaggressions seep into our core.
The episode is littered with offensive moments, because The Office is populated by characters who offend, but the butt of the joke is ignorance, not otherness.
She also uses the sport in her artworks to explore perceptions of otherness, with each chop or saw cutting through "stereotypes about her perceived Pacific identity".
"Go back where you came from" is a popular taunt among white nationalists, one that's used to instill feelings of otherness and alienation in the target.
And an alt-idol in Seth Cohen—whose love of comics and video games and Interpol was a reminder that you weren't alone in your otherness.
Everyone in the room knew he was attacking Ted Cruz, reappropriating the dog-whistle criticism the Texas Senator has used to imply Trump's blue-state Otherness.
For the most part, though, Radiohead and "mainstream" feels like an oxymoron—Radiohead specializes in otherness, a band whose music trades in isolation and existential vertigo.
It shares a pervasive and insistent atmosphere of otherness, and — this comes through only gradually — a spirit of level-eyed fortitude in the face of damage.
"I believe what's important to him is this notion that otherness is not bad, that Americans should aspire to walk in other people's shoes," he reflected.
The promise of the State of Israel to the Jewish people was to end its seemingly eternal otherness and restore it to the community of nations.
When combined with her piercing green eyes, wings, horns, talon-like nails, and ruby lips, Maleficent is a stark image of "female otherness," Zoller Seitz wrote.
Looking at these constructions of 'otherness,' particularly the first accounts of European travelers in the Americas, I started to consider ethnography as a form of storytelling.
My career as a professional artist hinges firmly on my otherness and living and making work about straddling life between two worlds, about code switching for survival.
Today, as his collection is unveiled in one of London's most prestigious art institutions, Bowie continues to challenge "preconceptions of 'otherness'" about Africa from beyond the grave.
Everything happening here is a love letter to otherness, from the mask to obscure femininity to the embrace of queer dance culture to that Juvenile shout out.
Within the first few minutes of the special's start, Leguizamo admits that at times, his otherness as a Latino left him feeling hopeless because of historical erasure.
Undertaken under the aegis of missionaries, armies, and merchants, the Westernization of the planet has represented an imperialist movement fed by the desire to erase all otherness.
Now, 2417 years after Kim arrived in New York, a younger generation of Korean artists living here still grapples with these same feelings of displacement and otherness.
"I frankly wonder whether anyone has written better about this war or better caught its terrifying otherness," the novelist Thomas McGuane wrote in The Times Book Review.
Years ago it might have been jazz; this time he has filled Mnuchin's imperious quarters with classical Japanese court music, further shaking up fixed notions of Otherness.
That's the sphere where flaming creative creatures from the margins dreamed into being their own colony of otherness, of a rough and ravishing world on the fringes.
We're of various backgrounds, and each of us experience our otherness in vastly different ways, but we're all accustomed to being among the minority in most settings.
Specific characters and constellations, including two figures in discussion and family-like groupings, often reappear, as do themes such as otherness, multiple identities and cross-cultural exchange.
Her arrival in this country was the first time, Ms. Omar has said, that she had confronted "my otherness" as both a black person and a Muslim.
To complicate things further, in Tunisia, trans people are not addressed at all in legal terms, and are lumped together in the otherness that is considered gayness.
Both books aim at an empathetic regard for the subjects of their photographs by the amplifying text accompanying them; both essentially write memoirs through writing about Otherness.
It is that otherness that makes Guardiola's presence in England so fascinating, of course; it is also, however, what makes him the subject of such heightened emotions.
But there is a nagging concern that the ads will have successfully seeped in questions of otherness in a community where the rural-urban divide is real.
Still, it is effective at throwing the audience, most of which probably doesn't speak Korean, right into the midst of the story's concerns about immigration and otherness.
Yes, that means merman sex, but strip the prurient aspects away and it's a tale about love and otherness with a wonderfully humanist, if not entirely human, soul.
The group, founded by a group of Asian-Australian teenagers from Melbourne, is flush with memes about boba tea, clever linguistic puns, and a joint sense of otherness.
I think a lot of time when people say transcendence it's a handy shortcut to refer that feeling of otherness that's really, really hard to qualify or quantify.
Speaking at a news conference after collecting her Golden Bear trophy, Pintilie said the film invited viewers to feel empathy, embrace otherness and reconsider their ideas about everything.
Over eight episodes, the X-Men-inspired drama tackled mental illness, otherness, and the over-stuffed superhero genre with more savvy than nearly any other show on television.
"The need to be accepted for who you are links otherness with the monstrous," said Kristie Overstreet, a psychotherapist and author who has a doctorate in clinical sexology.
Many times, gay men feel exempt from certain things, and treat their Otherness as permission to get away with bad behavior, whether it be racism, sexism, or xenophobia.
Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist at New Zealand's Botany College, told The Guardian that the fear over clowns comes from two things: a fear of otherness and social media.
The portraits feature a mélange of individuals caught in domestic moments to capture a provocative, elegant otherness that defies commonly accepted notions of race, gender, age, and individuality.
The inhuman coloration to their skin and general lankiness denotes an otherness, but everything else feels oriented towards sexiness, creating a line of mean, angular villainesses—like fuckable Lamborghinis.
"Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation," actor Liv Hewson, who plays the Hammonds' daughter Abby, explained in an interview.
Known for producing sensitive work underscored by the absurd, her long-term projects focus on gender, representations of otherness, dispossession and ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East.
Of all their eras, Without You I'm Nothing was especially significant for fans who shared the same feelings of otherness that crystallized both sonically and visually on the album.
Black Lightning is the first black-led superhero show in the CW's extensive DC lineup, and it embraces every part of its identity, wearing its otherness proudly and painlessly.
Since 2013, the Toronto-born artist has been using the plastic construction toys—black in color—as a means to facilitate expression, covering topics around blackness and general otherness.
That's what pushes people into clothing devised to further provoke and agitate, to be highly visible rather than blandly anonymous, the power of "otherness" as a tool of protest.
Haynes's immersion in art was also the result of a kind of apprehension of his own otherness, an undertow of estrangement that he felt long before he understood it.
Immigrants are alienated from the mainstream by the foods they eat, languages they speak, and religions they practice, all of which are offered as evidence of an inherent otherness.
But American Dirt, she says, fails because of the ways it seems to fetishize its characters' otherness: "The book feels conspicuously like the work of an outsider," she writes.
As the doctrine gained adherents, though, it was criticized by the academic left—not least, by many nonwhite scholars—who worried that it made a luxury commodity of otherness.
But when I saw the monkeys impaled on stakes, skulls picked clean of brains and teeth thrusting out, I looked otherness in the face — and saw myself mirrored back.
Both musicians turned the face into a landscape for creative expression — Jones used blush to amplify her fierce female power, Bowie to soften his maleness, to communicate sexual otherness.
The present immigration crisis has similar undertones, although the new arrivals are often from much farther away, causing consternation among more settled citizens over the "otherness" of their new neighbors.
Watching them try to perform new identities highlights the complex layers of cultural identity and drives home how often we assign "otherness" with only the most cursory of first impressions.
But well before a single word has been spoken, the South African director Yael Farber conjures up a sequence that transports the audience directly into the otherness of the piece.
She also tackles the internal barriers, the "fear and otherness" that hold so many back, that keep marginalized people toe-dipping in the system while the privileged cannonball straight in.
I'm thinking of how there is space of critical art writing as protest, or ways in which art writing can make space for otherness not being written at the moment.
Barack Obama is not actually a Muslim, but those who called him one were pointing toward what they saw as his cosmopolitanism, racial otherness and seeming discomfort with "real" America.
Their workplaces, particularly if at cultural institutions, have become professional minefields: In these fraught times, linguistic slips involving any kind of race or sex or "otherness" can trigger a layoff.
Like Melville and Thoreau, who invested their descriptions of early American wilds with an expansive vitalistic otherness, VanderMeer stages encounters with a nonhuman world that refuses to yield the foreground.
She had no interest in trying to show who they were under the feathers and the fantasy: she was in love with the bravery of their self-creation, their otherness.
While No. 7, as Hargreaves named his daughter, is broken due to her familial otherness, her siblings — two of whom have disappeared or died — are all shattered in their own ways.
The words tumble out of her mouth as she tries to convey the alienation and otherness of working in Silicon Valley when you don't fit the conventional image of an engineer.
To Shakespeare's audience, Tybalt's Italian swordsmanship reveals the Capulet's otherness, while the Montagues, even though technically Italian characters, themselves, are aligned with the solid (if stolid) combative style of the English.
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Queerness invokes otherness — a life lived outside the presupposed narrative of a "normal," heterosexual love life, a nonconforming presentation of gender, a recognition that biology need not necessarily determine one's destiny.
There's a reason LGBTQ kids latch onto the X-Men, with their otherness that manifests at puberty, and a generation of women still marshals an inner Buffy in times of crisis.
It is Britain's inherent cultural problem with otherness that makes it difficult for the native to call me British, difficult even for those who, one might naïvely hope, should know better.
"Often I feel when I'm reading sex scenes by men, there's a sense of disdain for the female body, a sense of its alienness, its otherness," she said in an interview.
" But if PWR BTTM's appeal is not limited to the frontiers of otherness — "I'm a mid-50s straight guy with a house in the suburbs and who typically doesn't like pop.
Of course, my story is not unique — it's an experience that's probably shared by most American-born Asians as we shake off our perceived otherness and strive to prove our Americanness.
When she sings, "I am not America's nightmare / I am the American Dream," it's an indication she's has spent time thinking about her otherness as a black queer woman in America.
Rather than "giving voice" and whitewashing collective experiences of otherness, BB10 enters into a discourse of non-complacency, reframing historical patterns of colonialism with urgent, intersectional issues, firmly rooted in the present.
This mocking motion indicates, again, an otherness that Asians have negatively internalized, giving rise to beauty products like double eyelid tape and to double eyelid surgery to achieve a more Western look.
Take Five is a celebration and exploration of shared histories of territories within the African Diaspora through the lens of personal narratives of "otherness" at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality.
The language you speak and the way you look affects your sense of self as a child, and this otherness is something I would later learn is my greatest source of strength.
The idea of "Japanese" alludes, perhaps, to "otherness," to an enduring occidental fascination with the obliqueness of the Far East, of words that look like pictures and ancient ceremonies with complex rules.
And though it emphasizes the fantastic otherness of the jungle in a way that feels almost antique, young readers will finish it with an impression of the grandeur of the natural world.
She starts the book again but this time focusing on her father, a man who struggled with feelings of otherness, of the fear of being discovered for what he is … a weirdo.
" A news chyron on the same network called her "Obama's Baby Mama," playing to an ugly stereotype about urban black women, "implying an otherness that put me outside even my own marriage.
As a partially disabled Nigerian–British artist, Shonibare has focused on two primary concerns throughout his 25-year career: his perspective on "otherness" and his awareness of the subtle intricacies of prejudice.
More young women have started wearing the hijab recently, Mr. Abdirahman tells me, and more young men "internalize the otherness" — rejected by their new society, they embrace the stereotypes imposed upon them.
Cisneros herself understood personally the feeling of otherness, and in this slim novella she gives voice to the push and pull of wanting to escape circumstance while also honoring heritage and identity.
Made by cutting and pasting the glossy, exclusionary images that mass culture foists on women, they retaliate with fantastical concoctions of otherness — racial, cultural, physical — that can stop you in your tracks.
And for a black prospective Congress member for a majority-white district, the focus on his rap lyrics puts his "otherness" in stark contrast with the lives and experiences of local voters.
In his books he has revealed a remarkable aptitude for inhabiting otherness and illuminating the world's darker corners, from post-Katrina New Orleans (in "Zeitoun") to southern Sudan (in "What Is the What").
He learned English in preschool and speaks it impeccably, with the same slight Latin inflection—a trill of otherness, rather than an accent—that he has in every language I can vouch for.
He was taken with the anti-ostracism moral of Joseph Losey's "The Boy With Green Hair" (on Saturday and Sunday), for instance, because it spoke to the otherness he felt growing up gay.
If, when she embarks on an affair with Zlatan, it is to be read in part as a rejection of Soren's views, Roxana's sexualization of Zlatan's perceived otherness chimes uncomfortably with Soren's thinking.
A candidate who turns immigrants into a nefarious symbol of America's ills is using them as a symbol of otherness — much as Trump did, often with blatantly racist overtones, in his presidential campaign.
The young woman I once was, seeking otherness and urbanity, a striver with class insecurities, had evolved into a stalwart mother in New Jersey, raising her kids in her hometown with their grandma.
Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation, the book is an unflinching investigation of otherness and a dead-sexy exploration of the intersection of identity and desire.
Living and working in the Bay Area, transdisciplinary artist Nicki Green mainly uses craft processes and sculpture work to examine the aesthetics of otherness as well as the preservation of history through conceptual ornamentation.
By turning her otherness into something that is unapproachable and impenetrable, while depicting himself in a pose that seems angry and defeated, Munch evokes a world without any tenderness or intimacy, whatever happened before.
Though this may have been beyond the scope of the exhibition, discussions of representation and otherness in New Mexico are not complete without these perspectives, which have long been systematically excluded from museological spaces.
Not only had he made a glittery, alien-looking creature look cool, he had helped pioneer a sexy (and marketable) form of otherness that mainstream artists have tried to replicate in the decades since.
And ultimately, we need to change the narrative and fear around Black women dyeing their hair, which is not only wrong, but further perpetuates the feeling of "otherness" that's pervasive among communities of color.
The X-Men films may be just one more Hollywood moneymaking machine, but Singer has turned them into a life project of sorts, constantly examining how his characters both reject and embrace their otherness.
With his mismatched eye colors (the result of a schoolyard fight) and needlelike frame, Bowie resembled the aliens he wrote so much about; his otherness was a canvas that he used fashion to embellish.
" Stefano Tonchi, the editor of W, said: "She was the first to put in front of the audience the idea of the otherness, bringing out memories of different cultures and fragments of other imagery.
If the ballet is about Lucy's power and otherness, its back storyis about the collaboration of these women, who with Mr. Vasterling and the jazz composer Francesco Turrisi, are bringing Lucy to the stage.
The verse here is both incantatory and ordinary but Garrick's performance, full of fiercely restrained passion and a mystical sense of otherness, gathered the energy of the whole event into a time-stopping instant.
But I still believe there's something secreted there, and that it must be the thing we all want most—all that which we can never have, the dark heart of love, its ultimate otherness.
Garner's work is a welcome departure from well-worn tropes: by using this ur-symbol to explore racialized otherness and violence, she reclaims the vagina from its historically entrenched use by white feminist artists.
As far as high school films go, this one is unapologetically dark, tackling bullying, racism, poverty, body issues, abuse, suicide, sexual assault and otherness in a way that doesn't feel like an after-school special.
Nowhere in the exhibition itself is the critical distinction made between the rights granted to Israelis and Israeli Jewish settlers, and the far more restricted rights granted all those upon whom otherness has been thrust.
For most of my childhood, I tried to hide the fact that I was Filipino, because in my extremely white suburb I always felt like an outsider and being Asian only made that otherness worse.
Crucially, too, these are young(ish) men who have come of age in an era when public rhetoric here pits England against everyone else — the Scots, the Irish, the European Union — and Englishness against Otherness.
In that way, the work is a magnanimous gesture of generational transference: a cheat sheet on queer history; a lecture about safe sex; a call to get angry, harness one's otherness and ultimately claim individuality.
This season finale, as well as one in which Roseanne quips about ethnically diverse shows, claim to send the message that people are more alike than they are different, but there remains a distinct "otherness" undertone.
I had already been out of high school for several years and was exhausted by my own confused identity politics, which I'd assembled from the debris of privilege (American, well-educated) fractured by otherness (Asian, female).
It is Linn's sensitivity to otherness — to the fact that we can never really name what we see, contrary to what Bible says about Adam naming the animals, and therefore possessing them — that animates her work.
As a child, I carried more fat than my peers — although still within a healthy range — and found myself in the uncomfortable territory of otherness, where no pre-pubescent person should ever wish to find themselves.
Over the course of my adolescence and young adulthood, this feeling of otherness led to more weight gain and, eventually, the formation of a deeply held conviction that something was physiologically and psychologically 'different' about me.
In contrast, the exhibition's centerpiece, "I Dream the Body" (2017), is a heraldic banner portraying a regal albino black with a long white afro mane who assumes the role of royalty in this realm of otherness.
Setting out to see how far the 1957 war horse could go toward examining hucksterism and otherness in an America we might recognize today, Ms. Green eliminated the straw hats, parasols and other signifiers of 1912.
And with the book's title, he is calling on people who have been ostracized or singled out to stop trying to fit in and embrace their "otherness" so Germany can become a truly multicultural, pluralistic society.
But in addressing the necessity to make a case for difference, for otherness, for marginality, for diversity, the museum has challenged, if not undermined, its own walls, and has made a paradox out of the institution.
More than simply offering up gross-out chills (though there are plenty of those), together they reveal something of our collective history of fear, escapism, and otherness that runs through pop culture and cinema to high art.
On the flip side though, there's a hugely false general perception that every queer person wants to assimilate neatly into straight culture; shedding any ounce of "otherness" and getting married and having gaybies and shopping at Homebase.
In addition to constantly being reminded of their "otherness" for simply being born with different skin, these men and women have likely already dealt with a lifetime of unnecessary teasing or questioning because of their unique names.
Often Le Guin's protagonists are strangers exposed to new societies, and their visions of otherness become vehicles for the reader's self-reflection, highlighting the strangenesses in our own world that we've become too accustomed to to notice.
Evidence that the scrupulous realization of such otherness is compatible with original and serious fiction-making can be found in recent novels by Jenny Erpenbeck (African migrants in Germany) and Rachel Kushner (a women's prison in California).
A series of ankle injuries got in the way of a skate career, but Straub's healing time coincided with the early stages of exploring identity, an evolving "otherness" that was not met warmly by the skate scene.
By inviting different artists to contemplate a land of jarring differences, he hoped he could not only illuminate what he calls "a place of radical dissonance," but also, even more profoundly, "recognize the strangeness and otherness within ourselves."
Looking back on the album, we spoke to Stefan Olsdal about intimacy, otherness, and sticking to your convictions—all things that helped pack Without You I'm Nothing with enough gut punches to stand the test of two decades.
" But others of us see incredibly tainted and damaging language in speeches and debates, filled with both coded and blatant references to race, stereotypes of communities of color, immigrant scapegoating and divisive suggestions of isolation, barriers, and "otherness.
The Barbados-born pop star and fashion icon upended the barriers that black, immigrant women in the U.S. face to step into a fantasy of abundance few could imagine, confidently using her otherness to forge her own path.
The artist interprets the role of the philanthropist as primarily an assertion of power as it relates to colonization and "otherness" — and with it, the condescension toward those who live at the lower end of the economic scale.
The Barbados-born pop star and fashion icon upended the barriers that black immigrant women in the U.S. face to step into a fantasy of abundance few could imagine, confidently using her otherness to forge her own path.
I just felt like that picture really encapsulated for me the loneliness sometimes that accompanies the black experience in America, where no one really knows what you're going through, and you're just alone in that sea of otherness.
The immense scale of the place, the way its luxury mall turns its back to 10th Avenue, its whole purposeful otherness — all of that is a strategy to create an enclave, something the developer thinks its clients desire.
In her complex and often conflicting otherness, appearing in the captivating floor-length skirts and loose blouses iconic to the Tehuana women indigenous to Oaxaca, Kahlo's dress conjured notions of Mexican nationalism, patriotism, and alignment with the Mexican Revolution.
In class, I learned that my history started in chains and peaked with Martin Luther King Jr. At home, I couldn't find anyone who could quite relate to the otherness that always lingered in the pit of my stomach.
The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire around the time of the First World War reframed the role of these institutions, as the old Ottoman subjects would eventually enter a different order of Otherness in the still-colonial gaze of the European.
" According to his website, Peláez, whose depiction of RiRi lives at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, created a series of headless "pop queens and soccer stars" from the Caribbean and Latin America to reference "longstanding projections of otherness.
Her tendency to proudly claim her "otherness" is an attribute greatly appreciated by her fans, and it's a trait she says she gets from her mom, who — despite her life's challenges — instilled in Kehlani a love and respect for everyone.
Elements of the murder mystery and noir genres abound, but it's the incisive way writer-director Taylor Sheridan examines justice, otherness, and male fragility that puts this sleeper-hit starring Jeremy Renner squarely in Western territory (both literally and figuratively).
Pen & Pixel served as the visual counterpart to this otherness; its gaudy, dreamlike album covers were like crass, lunatic vision-­boards, offering vibrant Photoshop collages of palm trees and pineapples, Hummers and helicopters, skulls and city skylines and diamond-­studded goblets.
But historically, those people who want to be seen must first pass through a period of public self-ridicule and self-degradation, making jokes about their otherness in order to convince a wider audience of their fundamental right to belong.
Imagine a plucked chicken in football pads with a tube shoved down its throat: At once totally vulnerable and deeply strange, the piece lets you inhabit an unfiltered piece of the artist's psyche without forgetting for a moment its otherness.
But in their gentleness, their sensitivity to small gestures and their haze of slowly dispersing sadness, the stories were part of the literature of otherness that had been a central theme of adult fiction forever, if only more recently of children's.
Do I quote poignant words from Martin Luther King, Jr. to remind us about the struggle, but that we still have dreams of equality and much work to do to right the injustices enacted upon the myriad of otherness in our society?
But it was hard to shake that feeling of otherness — especially for X'antony Sr. About a week after the family moved there, a police officer pulled him over as he rolled up in his red 1994 Mercedes-Benz to the family's modest clapboard.
Rather, immersed in the black political genre of Afrofuturism — wherein blacks use the imaginative soil of science fiction and fantasy to reframe debates about colonialism, racism, otherness and political legitimacy — he wanted to think about the way blacks experience time differently from whites.
It's why Mr. Trump found his strongest support not in areas most affected by immigration but in aging states with the lowest number of foreign-born residents, such as Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, where immigration is mostly a distant symbol of otherness.
Eckhout's 1641 picture is in a section of the show at MASP called "Portraits," a gathering so varied in mood, rich in new information, and nuanced in its critical views of otherness, that it is suitable to be airlifted intact for international travel.
But for the politicians writing off these young black and brown men, their otherness makes the idea of the right to self defense incomprehensible — even if they're merely doing what tens of millions of American gun owners do, except in a dramatically more violent neighborhood.
It may seem insignificant, but it's kind of a big deal that the presence of someone who may or may not be trans did not become a distraction to the issue at hand, nor was she meant to signify Reg's "otherness" in some form.
Beyond a story as such (as the title suggests), this is a sensitive portrait of refusal — refusal of otherness by a predominantly white heteronormative society; refusal of the state's normalizing, shame-making rumor machine by the intergenerational underground queer male community in East Germany.
These painted gestures "overcome the notion of otherness," according to Sassen, because the brushstrokes provide visual evidence of Sassen's contact with Roxane's skin, focusing attention on the relationship between photographer and subject rather than on Roxane as a singular object captured by the lens.
But, as Karen & the Sorrows point out on this record, it is still a narrow place, forbidding even the most basic indicators of "otherness"—sexuality, gender identity, class background—in favor of what many would see as a more traditional representation of a struggle.
Shortly before the book was released Emezi (whose preferred pronoun is they), published an essay in New York Magazine's The Cut in which they recounted their breast reduction surgery and hysterectomy, linking their gender dysphoria to their own sense of otherness as an ogbanje.
Traces of these issues are retained in the pairing of these two artists, yet Sturtevant's gesture creates additional layers of difference — between the original and recreated artworks and between one straight female and two gay male artists, whose personas have been identified with countercultural otherness.
If novelists split off in their books, Baldwin identifies with the way Giovanni is perceived — as the other — but he is the idealized other, capable of kicking ass if you mess with him, an other who would protect Baldwin's own otherness, if need be.
She has painted fictional figures like the Pink Panther, Babar the Elephant and Garfield, but E.T. is more dimensional, complicated by a kind of saintliness, otherness and conflict: He is a stranger in an inhospitable land who has healing powers and wants to go home.
Focus your energy on what you do have in common and create a safe space where you no longer have to feel threatened by the otherness of your partner; rather you can feel safe enough to view it as an asset to your relationship.
In "The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other" (21973), he concluded that native peoples, who, unlike Europeans, lacked a concept of "otherness," were unable to defend themselves against an enemy who could manipulate their perception of reality and confuse their planning and reasoning.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA to parents who immigrated from Nigeria, his immigrant status and Blackness led to a constant feeling of otherness in the United States, while his sexuality was perceived as "un-African" and not "of our culture" to his African circles.
The program (which is called "The Other Plays: Short Plays About Diversity and Otherness") is thought-provoking, but it feels 1,000 miles from the mainstream represented by the Belasco, where the best seat for "The Glass Menagerie" can set you back more than $200.
While demographics like age, gender, race, and sexual orientation don't negatively affect the quality of ideas, being a token does, because what is noticed first is the "otherness" of being different rather than the distinct set of ideas that the person has to offer, their "onlyness".
Do I allow myself to feel the anger of being forced to face otherness again and expected to turn it into a proper teaching moment, where I must represent the best there is as a Puerto Rican woman, LGBTQ ally, artist, mother, professor, yadda, yadda, yadda?
We are living through a time in which the president of the free world is driven by an ego that allows him to see things only in terms of the 'terrific' and the 'terrible', all the while Europe is engulfed by false narratives of us and otherness.
The recto and verso carry the conversation between word and image, whichever way it flows, and while Carr's images are frequently dense compared to the light touch of Schwartz's spacious and inviting poems, the two are syncopated in their respect for the otherness of our animal familiars.
My guess is that the kids would have gathered on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat and discussed my otherness and concluded that, though I did not outwardly appear to wear stripes or have horns, I was clearly hiding them, or using mind control to erase them from view.
By making paintings in which the figural presences never fully reveal their identity, even as they invite and seemingly welcome close looking, Shtini reminds us that art does not have to tolerate domestication by language, that it can go on to achieve and maintain its otherness.
My perception of the otherness of Vermont was heightened by having to endure the sweaty road trip, trapped in a station wagon, yelling at my sister over the din of highway driving with the windows down, while lurching to avoid my father's hand swatting back at us.
And our collective anxiety about our place in the future, about uncertain opportunity for our families, about the uneven costs of innovation, drives the rise of populism, nationalism, the epidemic of self-medication, and the curse of us-versus-them otherness that fragments our collective purpose.
A rise of intolerance after Britons voted in the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and the Brexit discourse since, which brought nationalism and immigration to the fore, had also led an atmosphere where people might have felt able to express their "hatred of otherness", the report said.
Or perhaps Bloom was always fearless; maybe there was a rawness, or an otherness, to her as a young child that her peers could not then tolerate, but that adults, who eventually come into their own sense of mortality and misery, now enjoy watching her explore through her show.
In every chapter the characters run up against the same fear of otherness that so many of us feel — the anxiety born of the knowledge that we are somehow "different," the terror that accompanies the idea that we are alien and will be misunderstood or outed as broken.
Mr. Chong, a theatermaker with a longstanding interest in otherness then and now, created the piece in collaboration with its three performers: Justin Perkins, a puppeteer; Ryan Conarro, a teaching artist in Alaska's public schools; and Gary Upay'aq Beaver, a native Alaskan versed in Yup'ik drum and dance.
Both are hated by the Klan, but while Flip has had the luxury of avoiding grappling with his Jewish identity until his otherness was explicitly brought up (a Klansman insists he take a lie detector test to prove he's not Jewish), Ron has never been able to pass — until now.
Maybe you entered the theater having read headlines that pit Marina as a sole force against a "bigoted world," or scenes rife with "grief and otherness"—and while those will come, it's refreshing to walk into a world where Marina's life and relationship are all but normal, where they simply exist.
The Asian part in Asian-American finally stood out in neon, and we've since spent decades trying to understand our otherness by returning to this original sin, swapping our own Lunch Box Moments back and forth like some sort of demented trauma trading cards (see: here, here, here, here, and here).
Vegas in Space and the New Queer Wave showed a generation of queer youth and aspiring filmmakers that it was OK to embrace their otherness, rather than bury what makes them unique—it taught us that it was all right to speak out, seek representation, and reach for the stars.
This all unfolds in a park whose distinguishing characteristic is a bunch of Styrofoam-looking fake rocks behind the outfield wall, for a team whose ridiculous geographic designation only distances it from both the L.A. glitz it was meant to connote and the Orange County otherness that is its actuality.
Impostor syndrome shows up consistently across genders and ages, but it's exacerbated by workplaces that:Thrive on competition and comparison (dog-eat-dog culture)Have poor communication and unclear expectationsLack diversity and mentorship which can reinforce a sense of isolation or "otherness"Impostor syndrome can have far-reaching consequences for organizations.
"'Diverse' isn't half as bad as 'multicultural,' which is like saying if it isn't white, it's an undecipherable mass of otherness that we won't even bother to [give] actual cultural identities because they fit so neatly outside our main shelves," says Sonali Dev, author of, most recently, the novel The Bollywood Bride.
In her piercing debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, Jerkins marinates on this "otherness," exploring how she's come to understand her place as a black woman and a human being––synonymous terms that aren't always viewed that way.
Paris-based Huang Yongping, one of China's most formidable conceptual artists, put it quite bluntly when speaking about navigating different cultural realities throughout his career between China and France: "Leveraging the East in the West, and leveraging the West in the East"— seeing right through the robust consumerism of an often uncontested otherness.
Drawing on the works of famous authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor as well as her own novels, Morrison looks for answers to how we create images of Otherness, why we fear the Other, and how race became a central part of this discourse in the first place.
Spero was in her mid-235s when she created the Black Paintings (22007-210), "her first mature works, […] which seem to brood over existential questions of selfhood, motherhood, and otherness," as the wall text puts it in the gallery featuring a selection of these works and of the War Series (21-22003).
Their complexity and scale are powerful enough to awe us, and the works lie far enough outside our routine frameworks of thought that if we are to engage them at all we need to simply accept their otherness, a capacity we would all be wise to develop in this segregated and strife-riven country.
In this way, Danny McBride and Jody Hill's timing with Vice Principals couldn't have been any better: You can find Gamby's resentment of otherness, intense fear of change, single-minded devotion to law and order, and pointless brow-beating in Donald Trump and the type of white guys who will vote for him come November.
But this otherness also reinforces an impression that Hudson Yards is more Singapore than New York; that it doesn't quite belong to the city — to New Yorkers — and instead belongs to its owners; and that City Hall, under the Bloomberg administration, turned over this precious chunk of Manhattan to an exclusive development for private profit.
"Like the stereotypes of the 'bad boy' or the 'kinky girl,' monsters seem to tickle the intrigue of those who feel ostracized because the 'otherness' or outer flaws of the monster can sync with those who empathize over whatever inner flaws they see in themselves," said Christopher J. Irving, Beacon College English professor and pop culture expert.
He hardly mentions his exotic surroundings, except for two memorable moments, one a brief interview with an unreconstructed cannibal, and the other a chance meeting with a blind madwoman in the forest, which left him with an alarming sense of his own otherness, even if its significance doesn't entirely penetrate his mental shield of Western cultural assumptions.
In the three minutes, 93 bars and 181 words that make up the song "Barcelona" — one of 15 or so in "Company" and more than 750 in the catalog of Stephen Sondheim — theatergoers get a complete narrative, within the larger one of the show, that deepens our understanding of Bobby, bachelorhood and the push-pull of otherness.
She embodied the person black mothers told their daughters they could be: if you got good grades in school, went to college, studied hard, did the work, persevered through all obstacles of racism, sexism and otherness, you could one day be president of the United States, pressed-out coils at the nape of your neck and all.
And even though they're loud and explode-y, they're also inclusive, diverse, tough-as-hell, and champion a sort of "ideal patriotism" where they fight for an America that's truly a land of opportunity and unafraid of otherness (unless "the other" rides toward the coast in a giant floating volcano, which absolutely happens in this issue).
An appropriationist before there was a critical term for it, she not only ceased to use oil paint and canvas; she also refused to invent images of her own, declining the role of world-creator while embracing a teeming realm of otherness: the totality of iconic meaning across the breadth of human culture, refracted through a feminist prism.
These two groups share more in common with each other than they do with their compatriots on the other side of the divide: their view of politics as a form of entertainment, their vulnerability to obvious fakes and outsized confirmation bias, their outlandish ideas about the workings of outside world, their cult of imaginary past and fear of cultural or racial otherness.
But in each of these examples, there is an interest in how the hearing characters are influenced by or benefit from the deaf characters' otherness—think of the final altar scene in "Four Weddings", where David's signing allows him to communicate with Charles privately, and in translating to the congregation Charles can admit his inability to go through with the nuptials.
After a jam-packed week of Act II —which consisted of lectures, performances, film screenings, and informally charming, thought-provoking discussions throughout Beirut — the quiet of this exhibition at Zico House made it a good place to wander and choose your own adventure, a useful metaphor for the many narratives considering "otherness" illuminated in the work displayed throughout the city.
The route, which was the one that Mehra took as a child on her way to Catholic school, travels north to a largely South Asian community and south to her childhood home in a predominantly white suburb, mapping a topography of otherness — her own as an artist, woman, and person of color, and that of the city's non-white population.
" A real emotional investment goes into making socially engaged work; when asked what needs to change in the way our societies represent trans and gender nonconforming people, Philomene says: "I think in general there's a lot of fear regarding otherness in our societies, and that fear often leads to violence, especially for trans people and gender nonconforming people of color.
In its most recent issue, Posture empowered models, designers, and artists to be seen by their own community through editorials like "The Morlocks," in which a handful of individuals on all facets of the race/gender/identity spectrum were transformed into mutants, celebrating and delighting in the inherent otherness of having a queer body and the radical act of living authentically.
" Joan Nathan says the exoticism of Chinese food added to its appeal, but also believes the Jewish love of Chinese food may be attributable to the outsider status of both communities in a largely white, Christian America: "Maybe it was the familiar feeling of otherness; in other words, they were not as comfortable as the 'Americans' were, and so they become comfortable with each other.
And while none of these releases should be defined by their queer aspects or acclaimed as some of the first—that would be both inaccurate and absurd—I think it's worth celebrating that they offer musically smart reflections of sex, dating and love lives entirely devoid of the male gaze or 'otherness' in a way that me and lots of others can properly relate to.
But given how she and her mother have described Mariah's upbringing as one steeped in a feeling of otherness, of being rejected by both white and black kids in school, of being terrorised while living in a white neighbourhood, of trying to navigate a world sorely ill-equipped to handle the complexities of mixed ethnic heritage, humour may well have been a coping mechanism of sorts.
It was only when they looked at the split between Trump supporters that the split began to reveal itself: And when they drilled down more and looked at just white respondents, the split became very, very apparent: They also designed a question to understand how afraid people were of "otherness," and found that the white Trump voters — specifically those in the working class — have far more isolationist political views than everyone else.
The story that I know, or that I've experienced — and the story of all of my peers who are in my likeness — choose a different type of man, and it is not the 28-inch-waist, six-pack-y type of guy," Burgess explained to EW. "There is an otherness going on, something that is rooted and grounded in the everyday man, if you will, and where although the exterior may be perfectly aesthetically pleasing, it is not what the attraction is built on.
" On his return to London, Bowie went on to push for an exhibition of contemporary South African art in the UK to coincide with africa95, a festival of African arts in the UK. His hope was that this would "challenge our preconceptions of 'otherness' and establish African art as being some of the most tantalising and provocative work to be seen," adding that, "if we continue to categorize art that is outside our cultural experience as somehow 'low art,' curio or merely artefact, we will be dealing these artists a serious injustice and we ourselves will be far poorer for it.
As I write this, the news is gushing with hostility toward anything and anyone resembling otherness; from post-Tory conference notions that companies should be shamed for employing foreign workers (now hastily abandoned), to suggestions that non-British doctors won't be welcome after 2025, to the revelation that the British Home Office has repeatedly ignored 400 unaccompanied child refugees who are legally eligible to come to the UK. Though this book was conceived and written before Britain Brexit-ed itself ass over elbow toward a grim future of prejudice, "celebratory racism" and hate crime surges, it very much exists within this conversation.

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