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Jackrabbit Goes Down the Rabbit-Hole

http://www.jackrabbit-blog.blogspot.com

This blog is maintained by a former University of Wyoming student who witnessed the events surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard and is now trying to think through her own personal experience with the tragedy against the portrayal of it in Moisés Kaufman's play "The Laramie Project." A mixture of personal history and literary analysis, the site will analyze the play as a cultural phenomenon, a literary work, and a way to understand the problems inherent in creating a coherent identity from one's experiences.

Added on: Nov 11th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Jackrabbit
Listed in: Personal Non-Fiction
Tags: literature theater Wyoming matthew shepard the laramie project tectonic theater

Recent Posts

TT\'s trailer for "10 Years Later"

Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 06:00 in links, 10 years later, tectonic theater, jed schultz, reggie fluty

Tectonic Theater has a YouTube channel, and there's only one thing in it-- a trailer for the Oct. 12 performance! Actually, "short documentary" might be a better description. It's rather interesting and features some footage of Jed Schult...
Down the Rabbit-Hole: Hindsight

Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 17:03 in Identity, memory, personal memory

Whoever said that hindsight is 20/20 probably never studied memory. If anything, hindsight needs bifocals and blinders. On the one hand, memory is extremely susceptible to the decay of time; the details slowly get effaced, warped a...
UW\'s resource page for the Matt Shepard attack

Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:54 in links, reporting, wbc, protests, candlelight vigil, university of wyoming, matt shepard

In my quest to find as many resources as possible on the Shepard killing and The Laramie Project I have discovered that the University of Wyoming never cleans out their press releases. This means that they're turning into a great online source ...
Some Thoughts on Myth

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 21:45 in Identity, community, south africa, memory, Wyoming, narrative, apartheid, laramie, ambivalence, the laramie project, antjie krog

The myth is, then, not necessarily false. It might happen to be wholly true. It may happen to be partly true. If it has affected human conduct a long time, it is almost certain to contain much that is profoundly and importantly true...
Why So Elitist, Academia?

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 14:30 in miscellaneous rant

Forgive me please for going off on a tangent on an unrelated rant, but there's something that really burned me the other day and I need to vent. You see, sometimes I feel like I've spent most of my adult life caught in the middle of a domestic squabb...
Emerson College\'s blog for TLP: 10 Years Later

Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 06:00 in links, the laramie project, 10 years later, tlp experiences

In my ongoing quest to gather other people's personal experinces with The Laramie Project and the epilogue, I found this great short blog cycle by the cast of Emerson's production of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later. It's less than thirty en...