"I will not cease to be" : voicing the alternative in Beth Brant's "A Long Story"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In "A Long Story", Beth Brant, a contemporary Canadian Mohawk writer, juxtaposes the legal kidnapping of Indian children by government officials at the end of the nineteenth century with the experience of a modern lesbian mother who loses her daughter in a custody battle. Unlike the pain-numbed, submissive Indian mothers in the past, Brant's modern legally unfit mothers voice an alternative to a kind of legality that serves as a cover for a hideous crime – the Two-Spirit Identity, which reinforces the dualism of the author's lesbian sexual preference as well as her Indigenous origins. Though the authors of the article question the validity of Brant's alternative to the dominant patriarchal order, the paper represents a contribution to the never-ending quest for the definition of Canadian female identity along the lines of feminist theory and practice (with a special reference to the work of Adrienne Rich) and Wilson's Two-Spirit Identity Theory.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".