“A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother”: Quebec’s Matriarchy and Queer Nationalism in the Cinema of Xavier Dolan
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Abstract
This paper takes into consideration the work of Quebecois director Xavier Dolan as a symptomatic example of a potentially counter-normative, female-empowered model of nationhood in Quebec’s post-revolutionary and post-referendary society. Stemming from a brief contextualization of Quebec's Quiet Revolution (1960s) as a site of heterocentric, nationalist drives, and employing a feminist and queer approach to nationalism to revise such paradigm, the paper aims to relocate Quebec into an alternative framework of nationhood, one that might find in femininity and queer subjectivities the necessary forces for the construction of a pluralist and more inclusive idea of nation. The reinforcement of motherhood and the revision of patriarchal hegemony depicted in the cinema of Xavier Dolan will be considered a benchmark for the revision of Quebec's nationalist and masculinist project in more flexible gendered terms.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".