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Just look at Proposition 8 in California that was just passed [to ban same-sex marriage]. You can see that there's a real anxiety that circulates throughout the entire country about the possibility that something like marriage and the family is not an exclusively heterosexual arrangement.

And I was interested in how that societal anxiety, the political message that is circulated in the wider public, is mediated in the intimate spaces of the family relations themselves.


N-L: Your developing research will look into the injuries incurred by soldiers coming back from the war in Iraq. What sparked your interest in that topic?

AG: I was on a long flight from California back to Baltimore, and I read a Rolling Stone article about the profile of injuries that are generated by the conflict in Iraq. I was really interested by this because the profile of injuries in Iraq is completely different from any other war. This difference has to do with the way the body is now armored and the way fighting takes place now.

The majority of the injuries in Iraq are concussive force injuries. The injury is completely unapparent to the exterior, so the body's visible surface may not be disrupted in any way, shape or form. Yet the body is profoundly altered.

I was very curious about what decides a successful rehabilitation when the surface of the body is not affected. It's not like you can visibly recognize the injury or the wound, but it's something psychological as well as a possible neurological alteration of the body. So my question is: What constitutes recovery when you can't see a physical cure?


N-L: Where will you conduct this research?

AG: Baltimore would be the perfect place. Between Walter Reed [Army Medical Center] and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, they are developing many new therapies around here.


N-L: Can you tell me about the series of events that took place on election night prior to your arrest?

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