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Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Has PhD in Breakdancing?

Rachael gunn earned a zero in breakdancing at the paris 2024 olympic games., aleksandra wrona, published aug. 13, 2024.

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Gunn's Ph.D. thesis, titled "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying," did cover the topic of breakdancing. However ...

... Gunn earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies. Moreover, a "PhD in breakdancing" does not exist as an academic discipline.

On Aug. 10, 2024, a rumor spread on social media that Rachael Gunn (also known as "Raygun"), an Australian breakdancer who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, had a Ph.D. in breakdancing. "This australian breakdancer has a PhD in breakdancing and dance culture and was a ballroom dancer before taking up breaking. I don't even know what to say," one X post on the topic read .

"Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn has a PhD in breakdancing and dance culture," one X user wrote , while another asked, "Who did we send? Raygun, a 36-year-old full-time lecturer at Sydney's Macquarie University, completed a PhD in breaking culture and is a lecturer in media, creative arts, literature and language," another X user wrote .

The claim also spread on other social media platforms, such as Reddit and Instagram . 

"Is she the best break dancer? No. But I have so much respect for going on an international stage to do something you love even if you're not very skilled at it," one Instagram user commented , adding that, "And, I'm pretty sure she's using this as a research endeavor and will be writing about all our reactions to her performance. Can't wait to read it!"

In short, Gunn's Ph.D. thesis, titled "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying," indeed focused on the topic of breakdancing. However, Gunn earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies, not in breakdancing. Furthermore, it's important to note that a "PhD in breakdancing" does not exist as an academic discipline. 

Since Gunn's research focused on the breakdancing community, but her degree is actually in the broader field of cultural studies, we have rated this claim as a "Mixture" of truths.

Gunn "secured Australia's first ever Olympic spot in the B-Girl competition at Paris 2024 by winning the QMS Oceania Championships in Sydney, NSW, Australia," the Olympics official website informed . 

Gunn earned a zero in breakdancing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and clips of her routine went viral on social media, with numerous users creating memes or mocking dancer's moves. "As well as criticising her attire, social media users mocked the Australian's routine as she bounced around on stage like a kangaroo and stood on her head at times," BBC article on the topic read . 

The website of the Macquarie University informed Gunn "is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking" and holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, as well as a bachelor of arts degree (Hons) in contemporary music: 

Rachael Gunn is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (2017) and a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Music (2009) from Macquarie University. Her work draws on cultural theory, dance studies, popular music studies, media, and ethnography. Rachael is a practising breaker and goes by the name of 'Raygun'. She was the Australian Breaking Association top ranked bgirl in 2020 and 2021, and represented Australia at the World Breaking Championships in Paris in 2021, in Seoul in 2022, and in Leuven (Belgium) in 2023. She won the Oceania Breaking Championships in 2023.

Gunn's biography further revealed that she is a member of the Macquarie University Performance and Expertise Reasearch Centre, and has a range of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels "across the areas of media, creative industries, music, dance, cultural studies, and work-integrated learning." 

Moreover, it informed her research interests included, "Breaking, street dance, and hip-hop culture; youth cultures/scenes; constructions of the dancing body; politics of gender and gender performance; ethnography; the methodological dynamics between theory and practice."

Gunn earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Music, Communications, and Cultural Studies within the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. Below, you can find the abstract of her paper, shared by the official website of Macquarie University:

This thesis critically interrogates how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gendered norms. Drawing on my own experiences as a female within the male-dominated breakdancing scene in Sydney, first as a spectator, then as an active crew member, this thesis questions why so few female participants engage in this creative space, and how breakdancing might be the space to displace and deterritorialise gender. I use analytic autoetthnography and interviews with scene members in collaboration with theoretical frameworks offered by Deleuze and Guttari, Butler, Bourdieu and other feminist and post-structuralist philosophers, to critically examine how the capacities of bodies are constituted and shaped in Sydney's breakdancing scene, and to also locate the potentiality for moments of transgression. In other words, I conceptualize the breaking body as not a 'body' constituted through regulations and assumptions, but as an assemblage open to new rhizomatic connections. Breaking is a space that embraces difference, whereby the rituals of the dance not only augment its capacity to deterritorialize the body, but also facilitate new possibilities for performativities beyond the confines of dominant modes of thought and normative gender construction. Consequently, this thesis attempts to contribute to what I perceive as a significant gap in scholarship on hip-hop, breakdancing, and autoethnographic explorations of Deleuze-Guattarian theory.

In a response to online criticism of her Olympics performance, Gunn wrote on her Instagram profile: "Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you":

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Gunn, Rachael Louise. Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-Girl's Experience of B-Boying. 2022. Macquarie University, thesis. figshare.mq.edu.au, https://doi.org/10.25949/19433291.v1.

---. Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-Girl's Experience of B-Boying. 2022. Macquarie University, thesis. figshare.mq.edu.au, https://doi.org/10.25949/19433291.v1.

Ibrahim, Nur. "Lifeguards Are Present at Olympic Swimming Competitions?" Snopes, 8 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/lifeguards-paris-olympics-swimming/.

"Olympic Breaking: Criticism of Viral Breakdancer Rachael Gunn - Raygun - Condemned by Australia Team." BBC Sport, 10 Aug. 2024, https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c2dgxp5n3rlo.

ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1069-4021. Accessed 12 Aug. 2024.

Paris 2024. https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/-raygun_1940107. Accessed 12 Aug. 2024.

Saunders, Grant Leigh, and Rachael Gunn. "Australia." Global Hip Hop Studies, vol. 3, no. 1–2, Dec. 2023, pp. 23–32. Macquarie University, https://doi.org/10.1386/ghhs_00060_1.

Wazer, Caroline. "2024 Paris Olympics Are 'Lowest-Rated' Games in Modern History?" Snopes, 1 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/paris-olympics-lowest-rated-games/.

---. "Hobby Lobby Pulled $50M in Ads from 2024 Paris Olympics?" Snopes, 8 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/olympics-hobby-lobby-ads/.

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A breaking hero emerges: Meet Australia's Raygun

An australian professor had some breaking moves, and people had thoughts., by nbc staff • published august 9, 2024 • updated on august 9, 2024 at 3:19 pm.

As Dr. Rachel Gunn, she's a 36-year-old lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia . She holds a PhD in cultural science. She researches and lectures on the cultural politics of breaking .

As Raygun, she's an Olympian breaker, competing for Australia.

Raygun lost all three of her matches, against B-Girls named Nicka, Syssy and Logistx. Yes, that sentence is accurate.

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But Raygun had some moves. And people had some thoughts.

What my nephew does after telling all of us to “watch this” pic.twitter.com/366LjIRl4j — Liz Charboneau (@lizchar) August 9, 2024

There has not been an Olympic performance this dominant since Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint at Beijing in 2008. Honestly, the moment Raygun broke out her Kangaroo move this competition was over! Give her the #breakdancing gold 🥇 pic.twitter.com/6q8qAft1BX — Trapper Haskins (@TrapperHaskins) August 9, 2024

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All I can think about when I see this is the hip hop dance teacher from Bob’s Burgers but if instead she was from Australia and was a 36 year old woman named Raygun https://t.co/nUwYVLnrms pic.twitter.com/Wl5FResHw7 — Shereef Sakr (@ShereefKeef) August 9, 2024

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when Raygun hit the kangaroo jawn I couldn't see the screen I was crying so hard pic.twitter.com/jcICfTu11d — Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) August 9, 2024

I think I found the source of inspiration for the Raygun breakdance at the Olympics. https://t.co/t94Iyu1dPZ pic.twitter.com/a7DL9etwRz — Noodson (@noodson) August 9, 2024

Raygun was like pic.twitter.com/KvXVPVGScx — Charles J. Moore (@charles270) August 9, 2024

Raygun did THE SPRINKLER at this breakdance thing, this is the worst thing Australia has ever done. — Luis Paez-Pumar (@lppny) August 9, 2024

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Dreeszen Bowman named a Biliniski Dissertation Fellow

Rhys Dreeszen Bowman has been selected as a Biliniski Dissertation Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. During the fellowship, Dreeszen Bowman, who uses the pronoun they, will focus on completing their dissertation — From Margins to Center: Community-Based Action Research with Transgender Communities in South Carolina .

The College of Arts and Sciences manages the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowships which provide $40,000 to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences to support completion of their doctoral degrees.  

Dreeszen Bowman is the first doctoral student from the School of Information Science to receive the award. 

“Receiving this fellowship is a clear indication of the importance of Rhys’s dissertation work. It is timely and relevant to communities throughout the state of South Carolina,” says Lyda Fontes McCartin , director of the School of Information Science. 

The main goal of Dreeszen Bowman’s dissertation is to understand how transgender individuals in South Carolina are able to find reliable information and what role libraries play in their ability to do so.  

“I’m curious how this climate is impacting trans people’s ability to find reliable information and survive in this state,” Dreeszen Bowman says.

Dreeszen Bowman went on to explain how the Fellowship will allow them to fully focus on their dissertation, easing the financial strain of being a doctoral student. 

“I’ve taught every year since I started the program and so being able to not have to teach — as much I love teaching and love working as a graduate assistant — but just being able to focus on my dissertation makes it feel possible to finish within the time that I’m funded by my program,” Dreeszen Bowman says. 

Dreeszen Bowman plans to conduct community-based action research by recruiting an advisory board of five transgender people in Columbia to assist with the project. The committee will review Dreeszen Bowman’s research questions and collaborate in the creation of an informational health care resource to be used by transgender communities across the state. 

By interviewing people across the state to get their viewpoints on their transgender healthcare ban for minors, Dreeszen Bowman hopes to make their dissertation reflect the issues faced by transgender people in both urban and rural communities. 

“The interviews will be with people all across the state of South Carolina, and I’m really hoping that I can represent a broad racial diversity and also find rural folks. We know that people in rural communities in the South are facing a lot more barriers than people living in the cities, in these really regressive, political and religious climates where it can be very difficult to be trans, so I’m really hoping to be able to represent a rural perspective as well,” Dreeszen Bowman says.

After completing their dissertation, Dreeszen Bowman hopes to find employment in academia. 

“I’m going to be applying for jobs , and I’m hoping to secure a job as a tenure track assistant professor at a university,” they say. “I’m hoping that being able to focus full   time on the dissertation will give me the time I need to finish and also allow time for me to submit job applications.”

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Ph.D. alum wins dissertation award, promoting women and diversity in advertising

| By Erin Wadsworth '22

The slogan “Diversity = Creativity = Profitability” is at the heart of The 3% Movement’s mission to eradicate gender bias in creative departments in U.S. advertising agencies.  

UNC Hussman alumna  Teresa Tackett ’22 (Ph.D.)  explored this movement’s mission, focusing on how women negotiated their paths to creative leadership in her award-winning dissertation. She examined professional imbalances in the advertising industry in which 89% of people holding the title of “creative director” are men.

Tackett’s dissertation, “ Mad (Wo)Men: How Female Creative Leaders in Advertising Resisted a Male-Dominated Leadership Culture ,” was recognized with the 2023 Mass Communication and Society Dissertation Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in October 2023.

The research stemmed from her experience working with female leaders in the advertising industry.

“I’ve been mentored really well by wonderful women who are leaders,” said Tackett. “When I realized that wasn’t the case for everyone, it gave me a lot to think about.”

During conversations with leaders in the advertising industry, she noticed gender biases as a predominant factor when it came to leadership advancement, especially in creative departments. Long working hours that accompany advertising agencies and parental responsibilities were a common topic in those conversations, particularly for women who cited childcare and other household responsibilities they completed during their “second shift” after a day of professional work.

“That led me to think about gender bias in advertising and the industry itself,” Tackett said. “Who gets to be leaders, and why? What are the workplace policies and procedures for career advancement in creative departments, and who gets to decide that?”

Early in her graduate career, she discovered the advocacy work of The 3% Movement, an organization created in 2012 to address gender bias among creative leaders in the industry. At that time, only 3% of creative directors in American advertising agencies were women. By 2020, that number increased to 29%. 

Despite progress, the number plummeted back down to 11% in 2021. This dramatic change happened during Tackett’s time in UNC Hussman’s Ph.D. program, which coincided with pivotal societal issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Great Resignation. The zeitgeist elevated issues related to inclusion and belonging in the workplace that dovetailed with The 3% Movement’s mission.

“For years, people had been putting pressure on the industry, specifically advertising on the creative side, to be more equitable,” Tackett said. “With everything that was happening socially in our country, all of this came to the forefront for agencies, and they had to respond. For me as a researcher, it was really interesting to see what that response looked like.”

She interviewed 14 female leaders in the advertising industry with the title of creative director or higher to examine how women navigated their creative careers in a male-dominated space.

“When I dug into it, I learned from women who are at these agencies that there were actual real changes being implemented because of that,” Tackett said. “Agencies had pulled a lot of their data for the first time to see how representation played out.”

Several leaders at agenices Tackett interviewed had adopted “Free the Bid,” a pledge engendered by activist and film director Alma Har’el.

“If you’re bidding to work with this agency, there were three bids at a minimum, and one bid had to be a woman or person of color,” Tackett said. “Putting practices like that in place – it was really cool to see that there was actual change happening.”

Tackett’s dissertation committee included  Lucinda Austin  (adviser),  Barbara Friedman ,  Lee McGuigan ,  Andy Andrews  and  Holly Overton . Friedman, an associate professor at UNC Hussman, is a leading scholar on gender, race and class in mass media.

“Tackett applied a historical lens to assess women’s contemporaneous status in advertising, and while progress isn’t what it ought to be, she identified several women-led interventions to demonstrate the industry’s forward momentum,” Friedman said. “She offers recommendations for women’s advancement, too – her professional experience as an ad executive combines with her scholarly work to represent a powerful force for change.”

Tackett’s research culminated with her award-winning dissertation. The AEJMC award recognizes one dissertation each year that advances mass communication research at the societal level, providing the author with a $3,000 cash prize and the opportunity to publish an article in the Mass Communication and Society journal. 

“To receive that award from Mass Communication and Society at AEJMC was just the highest honor, not only for me to be recognized, but that this kind of work was recognized,” Tackett said. “The division saw that these women’s voices and their experiences were important and worthy and made a great contribution to the literature.”

Tackett, now an assistant professor of advertising and public relations at the University of Arkansas, is taking the organizational and feminist perspectives that she applied to the advertising industry and applying them to other male-dominated spaces like politics, technology and finance. She is currently working with two UNC Hussman alumnae,  Bridget Barrett ’23 (Ph.D.)  and  Andrea Lorenz ’23 (Ph.D.) , to study 2022 gubernatorial elections in which both candidates were women.

Tackett is looking forward to advising student research projects and continuing her own work in strategic communication scholarship, using qualitative research methods to shed light on the biases people continue to face in organizations and institutions and how activism challenges those injustices. 

“I’ll always pursue projects that focus on communication, advocacy and gender — specifically intersectionality within gender. I hope my work gives a voice to women of all races and ethnicities, different socioeconomic statues, differently abled and able-bodied women, women of different ages and gender identities — all women.” Tackett said. “How can we be more inclusive to all different types of people in the spaces that we’re working?”

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