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October 2018

October 18, 2018

Sexual Assault in Fairy Tales & AFS This Year

I’m off to the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and unlike last...

October 08, 2018

If You Dislike Toxic Masculinity, Try On Hegemonic Masculinity

I am glad to see so many more people using the phrase toxic masculinity, due...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Normalize Being Trauma-Informed in a Time of Kavanaugh

I want to tell people to normalize trauma, as in information about trauma and discussions...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

We Don’t Get to Choose Our Traumas

As I write this, my heart is pounding, and I know it's because of fairly...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

I Won a Writing Award!

And it's a FEMINIST writing award, which feels incredibly validating given that my earliest brushes...

July 04, 2018

Being a Beacon

On America's Independence Day, I'm reflecting on the idea of being a beacon: of optimism...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Bringing It Back to the Body

Teaching a class about the body is, obviously, an embodied experience. I found a great...

June 27, 2018

Somatophobia

One of the concepts I teach whenever I get the chance to is somatophobia. Its...

June 16, 2018

Does Being Bored by Peterson for 2 Hours Mean I Finally Have Context?

Yes, I went to the Jordan Peterson talk in my town. No, it wasn't the...

June 05, 2018

Angry about Missing Children? Welcome to Reproductive Justice.

If you're infuriated about immigrant children being separated from their parents, then you should know...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Find a Better Insult Than “Gender Studies Doesn’t Exist” When Arguing about Gender

As a folklorist I'm not new to people insulting the area I chose to study,...

May 26, 2018

Jordan Peterson Is So Sexist I Don’t Need to Know Anything Else

I know we should be judging the idea and not the person who came up...

May 14, 2018

When You’re Too Fatigued to Feel Violated

I suppose I'm lucky that getting groped at belly dance gigs is so rare that...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

A Reminder About the Ansari Topic: Trans/Gay Panic Is Still a Legal Defense

When discussing a woman's response to nonconsensual sex, recall that it's still defensible for men...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

To Be Clear: By Sex-As-Commodity I Don’t Mean Sex Work

I believe it's crucial to distinguish between conceptual models of sex and actual sex work,...

December 26, 2017

Why Conceptualizing Sex as Commodity Dooms Consent

I doubt anyone actually means to make sex out to be an object, which men...

December 23, 2017

Fed Up with Complicit Women? Consider Why They Buy in to the Patriarchy.

For all the thought-provoking and vulnerable #MeToo posts, some posts lament women who go along...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Afraid of False Accusations? Try Trusting Women.

But what will happen if women feel emboldened to report every little slight?!... people seem...

November 08, 2017

#TriangleSCI 2017 Day 2

On the second day, my team presented our take on scholarly storytelling. And the conversation...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Gender and Privilege

Let's continue the conversation on privilege by bringing gender into the spotlight as an identity...

September 15, 2017

The Privilege Post

This is a post I've been meaning to make for a long time, defining &...

September 10, 2017

Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict

This conference recap post is long-overdue, but it took me a while to process all...

July 2017

July 18, 2017

Book Chapter Blues

I've written book chapters before, but for some reason I'm wigging out over this one...

July 16, 2017

Because Yanking Funding from Teen Pregnancy Research Sounds GREAT

It seems the Trump administration is kicking disenfranchised groups while they're down, such as the...

July 15, 2017

June 2017

June 28, 2017

If You Can’t Respect Me as a Belly Dancer, Can You Respect Me At All?

There are pictures of me on the internet with my belly showing. GASP. The indecency!...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

Domestic Management as Emotional Labor

Writing about concepts is one thing; illustrating them through a very accessible comic is another....

May 16, 2017

The Tough Work of Loving Your Body

The more I think about it, the more I liken self-acceptance to a yoga or...

May 12, 2017

Why the Fairy-Tale Metaphor for Trump’s World… Actually Works

Fairy tales narrate a rise to royalty, often as wish fulfillment, but they rarely depict...

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