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May 2017

May 06, 2017

Masculinity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Fairy Tales

One of my side projects involves looking at masculinity in contemporary North American fairy-tale retellings....

May 03, 2017

Conference All The Things in 2017

It's taken me a few years to deal with academic burnout, but I feel like...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Today’s Work Motivation? The Disapproving Judith Butler Site.

Sometimes it takes extra motivation to get myself in gear. This brilliant site displaying Judith...

April 21, 2017

My Fairy-Tale Paper at #WSFS2017

Believe it or not, there's always more to say about fairy tales, even canonical ones...

April 12, 2017

WTF Is Gender?

I just wrote a definition of gender that I'm pretty proud of (for a conference...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

My Folklore Roundtable Lecture

There's so much to say about sex in fairy tales, and I only have an...

February 21, 2017

My Essay in Split: true stories about the end of marriage and what happens next

If it's difficult to write or talk about, then I'm generally in favor of doing...

February 20, 2017

Kinship, Agency, & Women’s Voices in Palestinian Arab Folktales Part 3

Pairing a tale named "Gazelle" with one called "Sackcloth" to investigate gendered agency in folktales...

February 19, 2017

Kinship, Agency, & Women’s Voices in Palestinian Arab Folktales Part 2

If you're new to the concept of "the traffic in women" as a model of...

February 18, 2017

Kinship, Agency, & Women’s Voices in Palestinian Arab Folktales Part 1

Over a decade ago, I wrote a paper using a feminist approach to folk and...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

I’ve Stopped Weighing Myself and I’m Pleased as Punch

I'm a body scholar, but also - surprise! - an embodied being. There's no scale...

January 14, 2017

That Old Feminist Bait-and-Switch

Hate getting reeled in by hotness only to get snapped at for objectifying women? I...

January 05, 2017

#FolkloreThursday: Women’s Folklore

Studying folklore by genre is pretty well established, and we also consider women's folklore to...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Why I Hate the Naturalization of Femininity, and You Should Too

Let's make it seem like women's bodies are self-contained vessels of naturally-occurring perfection! That's a...

December 03, 2016

Of COURSE I’m a Folklorist Studying Emotional Labor

When we talk about folklore as the social glue that holds communities together, it brings...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Risk & Identity in Today’s Political Climate, aka I Support Jessica Drake

I don't care what your profession is: your consent is yours, and yours alone, to...

October 18, 2016

Abuse Can Coexist with Tenderness

Not all abuse is a black-and-white case of obvious corruption or cruelty, and because of...

October 16, 2016

Politics and Gaslighting

Yes I'm cranky about the political landscape - not only is it dehumanizing women, but...

October 12, 2016

Gaslighting

I'm glad that gaslighting has entered the conversation about relationship dynamics. But what does it...

October 04, 2016

What I Believe About Sex

Very little sex knowledge is worth having faith in. My atheist and scholarly principles guide...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

The Must-Read Emotional Labor Document

If you think you've read up on emotional labor, and you haven't read this, well,...

September 20, 2016

How My Atheism and Feminism Inform Each Other

What do marriage equality and sex education have in common? A lot, if you're coming...

September 14, 2016

Study on the Gendered Division of Housework

Domestic labor is expected more of women than of men, regardless of salary differences. This...

September 11, 2016

Kin-Keeping and Worry-Work

Maintaining family connections through sending letters & planning get-togethers is emotional labor, and often highly...

September 05, 2016

Genitals, Stigma, & Shame (or why camel toe needs to die in a fire)

Genital shaming needs to stop, and that starts with awareness of our language use &...

August 2016

August 20, 2016

What Women Deserve

If you ask people what women deserve, you might get different answers. But watch how...

August 19, 2016

Sexual Trauma in Modern Maternity Care (Woodhull Session 1)

The trauma that can occur during a normal hospital birth might have long-lasting consequences for...

August 17, 2016

Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit 2016

Once again, some of the best & brightest sexuality educators & activists gathered at Woodhull...

August 15, 2016

The Courage to Discuss Consent Violations

Consent violations are sadly common, but what should you do immediately after? Dr. Jen offers...

August 03, 2016

Objectifying Women to Save Them is Problematic (But Not New)

Objectification isn't new, but it keeps rearing its oh-so-prettily-framed head in advertising, the media, and...

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