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December 2016

December 29, 2016

Gender Identity is for Everyone, Part II

The trans/non-binary movements cannot simply be working for the extension of civil rights. They are...

December 29, 2016

Gender Identity is for Everyone

Transgenderism, postgenderism and any other non-binary systems of understanding gender tend to rely on the...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

The Illiberal Bathroom Experience

There are those who would argue, with some justification, that LGBTQA movement need not concern...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Who Said It About Sexuality, Slavoj Žižek or Your Catholic Mom

You might think your Catholic mother has nothing in common with the Marxist intellectual and...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Masculine and Feminine Time

I know it's hardly with-it to draw distinctions between men and women. And yes, I...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Ayn Rand, Fairy Godmother of Sexual Orientation

When I first purchased Atlas Shrugged with money I begged from a street corner, it was with...

June 2015

June 01, 2015

Stop Moralizing Shame, It’s Ruining Everyone’s Day

As some criticism on my post on slut-shaming put it, the concept of shame as...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Rethinking Slut-shaming

I do not operate, move, or control my body. I am my body. It is I who see, smell,...

May 28, 2015

5 Things We Should Think About Before We Say “Slut-Shaming”

Hyphenate the word "shaming," and boom, you've got a ready-made evil, a buzzword everyone on...

May 19, 2015

Ain’t Nothing Indissoluble About Natural Marriage

The indissolubility of marriage is not natural. I could not agree more with Dan Savage...

May 18, 2015

Ain’t Nothing Catholic About Heterosexual Civil Marriage

The naivety with which Christians call gay marriage an attack on the civil institution of...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Sexuality and the Land

The following is a selection of an essay written for the recent Winter issue of...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Objectifying Soccer Players Probably Won’t Help Fight Sexism

Amanda Hess' article for Slate, "Why it’s great to objectify World Cup players," is wonderful....

May 2014

May 27, 2014

The (Usually Ignored) Difference Between Sexual Identity and Sexual Event

NSFW, or children, or anyone, really. Let's just put this one in the grave, alright?...

May 03, 2014

How “Cis” Killed Gender Theory

Modern gender theory is dead, and we have killed it. Weep -- we were really...

May 01, 2014

Sexuality and Personality

Sexuality is a microcosm of personality. It is a part of the person -- I...