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Stereotypes were made to be broken" is the tagline of Lauren Howe's website (https://laurenhowe.ca/) where she exposes the two sides of her inspiration: Side A-Engineering and Technology and Side B-Media and Entertainment. Howe is beauty pageant engineer winning Miss Universe Canada 2017 and a top ten finalist of Miss Universe 2017. She has attempted to break the stereotype of STEM association to man by developing her personal campaign and personality profiling. This study attempts to apply deconstructive discourse analysis of textual and visual representation of woman and beauty in Howe's website, centring on the question whether the dominating woman stereotypes have truly been broken. The binary oppositions and metaphysic hierarchies will be subverted as to expose the deeper spread of meanings. The study concludes that even though Howe's worldwide efforts have been successful to break the stereotypes, she is still unconsciously trapped in conceptualizing and representing woman and beauty from male-dominated industry and standpoint.

This is a library study of university students' instant poems about their attitudes toward pluralism in Indonesia. The goals of the study are to identify the tones of the poems and then trace the microaggressive attitudes toward pluralism through the metaphorical expressions found in the poems. The study of the poems has revealed that microaggressions may take diverse unrealized forms, such as seeing difference as wrong or sinful, considering the "rainbow" of diversity as piteous, viewing intermingled mixtures of different backgrounds with ambiguous attitudes, the impossibility of having a real sense of "we" belonging, fictiveness of superior ethnicity and both sides of microaggression, disempowering diversities with too many differences, merely teaching and telling of diversity without modeling, surfacing of microaggressive domination, and questioning the fiction of authentic ethnicity. All issues have been proven to be the new faces of modern and subtle racism and chauvinism with their growing underground power to reject diversity.

Abstract:This study aims at exploring postcolonial themes raised by Andrea Hirata's Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors). Specifically, it will reveal the characteristics of hybridity found in the novel that prove this literary work may be categorized as postcolonial writing despite the fact that western or white colonialism has no impact or trace at all in the novel. Furthermore, the study will prove that this national novel with its very local issues is a counter discourse, a subversive tool for the writer to criticize the domination of certain groups upon their own marginal fellows. Education, as a global issue, is one Indonesian national and typical ironic problem teased through local culture and even mysticism in this novel.

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