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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:LGBT themes in mythology
 * Article Evaluation:Many claims within the article are missing citations and the sources cited are beginning to be dated, the most recent of which from 2006 but the majority predate the turn of the century. The sections on LGBT themes in African countries are much smaller than other sections and would benefit from some bolstering. It also addresses sexuality more than gender which would be good to look into as well. Furthermore the text itself isn't an easy read and could be made to be less academic and more for the average reader.
 * Sources:  Lauria, Eleisha. Gender Fluidity in Hawaiian Culture. Vol. 24. Boston: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2017. Print.:  Srinivasan, Shiva, and Sruti Chandrasekaran. “Transsexualism in Hindu Mythology.” Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism 24.3 (2020): 235–236. Web.:  Elledge, Jim. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Myths from the Arapaho to the Zuñi : an Anthology. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Print.:

Option 2

 * Article title:LGBT themes in Greek and Roman mythology
 * Article Evaluation:This article is very short and doesn't address very much. It mostly consists of lists of male-male relationships in myth and a few gender nonconforming figures in myth. These lists have no introduction and are placed within the article with no explanation. There is a short "overall" section which seems to be a catch-all and doesn't do very much and would best be divided into more definitive categories and expanded upon, specifically into a "modern influence section". Most of the sources could also be updated. There is at least one claim that I understand to be false, however I have not yet looked into the source used. Some of the language in the text could be updated. It also claims to be a page on both "Greek and Roman Mythology" yet only seems to address Greek. Whether or not that is because there are minimal differences is unclear as they never address it within the article.
 * Sources:  Moore, K. R. The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. Web.:  Ortega, Christopher E. “Transgender and Intersex in Antiquity: Differences in Ancient Greek and Roman Gender Norms through Religion, Rites, and Non-Heteronormativity.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019. :  Cahana-Blum, Jonathan, and Karmen MacKendrick, eds. We and They : Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2019. Print.

Option 3

 * Article title:Qiu Miaojin
 * Article Evaluation:This article has a few places where citations are needed. The biography section could use some bolstering. It may also be pertinent to write about the subject's gender and how she writes about gender, though there is no section on it to date. The introductory paragraph mentions her influence which is never properly expanded upon.
 * Sources:  Lee, Ming-che. “Translating Gender Indeterminacy: The Queering of Gender Identities in Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre.” Translation studies 15.1 (2022): 54–68. Web.:  Heinrich, Ari Larissa, and Eloise Dowd. “In Memoriam to Identity.” TSQ : Transgender studies quarterly 3.3-4 (2016): 569–577. Web.:  Rojas, Carlos. “A New Species: Gender, Sexuality, and Taxonomic Logics in Sinophone Communities.” Prism (Durham, N.C.) 17.2 (2020): 277–297. Web.:  Lixian, Holly Hou. LGBT Activism in Mainland China: A Brief Movement Overview. Vol. 29. Detroit: Against the Current, 2014. Print.

Option 4

 * Article title:Mary Jones (trans woman)
 * Article Evaluation:Many of the sources lead to news articles or websites that do not use citations. Others have links to pages that no longer exist. The content that exists in the article is well-written and relevant, however much of it could be expanded upon. It lacks information on the subject's life outside of the trial. The article seems to still be in it's beginning stages.
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Option 5

 * Article title:Balkan sworn virgins
 * Article Evaluation:This article is missing citations in some places. Many of the cited works are beginning to become outdated and some are news articles that themselves don't contain any citations. It also fails to address transgender sworn virgins which make up a large part of modern scholarship on the topic. Speaking of gender, the article doesn't address the perspective of a sworn virgin in much depth simply speaking on a couple of reasons why one might take the vow.
 * Sources:  O’Healy, Áine, and Caterina Romeo. “Narrating the Transnational Trajectories and Transgender Performances of the Sworn Virgin.” Italianist 42.2 (2022): 268–288. Web.:  Young, Antonia, and Larenda Twigg. “‘Sworn Virgins’ as Enhancers of Albanian Patriarchal Society in Contrast to Emerging Roles for Albanian Women.” Etnološka tribina 39.32 (2009): 117–134. Print.:  Dickerson, Carly. “The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania’s ‘sworn Virgins.’” International journal of the sociology of language 2019.256 (2019): 57–83. Web.