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July 2016

July 25, 2016

Conflating Emotional Guilt with Causal Guilt is Victim-Blaming

Feeling a complex tangle of emotions that could be labeled "guilty" does not mean someone...

July 17, 2016

How Fat is Too Fat? (Part 2)

Is it "activism" to push back against the hateful messages aimed at fat people? Apparently...

July 16, 2016

How Fat is Too Fat? (Part 1)

Am I too fat? Are you too fat? If you’re a fat studies scholar, you...

July 11, 2016

I Gain Nothing By Excluding You

How many years of feminine socialization are required to make a woman? I don't have...

July 08, 2016

What You Need to Know about Artists Consenting to Sexual Objectification

Women are conditioned to equate being objectified with being sexy, which is unfortunate, but I'm...

July 02, 2016

A Body-Literate Society (The Case for Sex Ed Part 2)

Keeping people ignorant of the workings of their own bodies makes them both dangerous &...

June 2016

June 19, 2016

Evaluating Androcentrism in My Life

Is it ever comfortable to wonder how much you've internalized the misogyny of our culture,...

June 15, 2016

Rethinking the Sex-Gender Connection

Binary gender is a fiction. But the idea that gender is a cultural construct that...

June 14, 2016

The Impact of Sexist Microaggressions

A single misogynist (or homophobic, or transphobic, or racist) comment usually isn't enough to cause...

June 08, 2016

A Personal Reason to Wear Shorts

Despite being a pretty fit person, I have a not-so-great relationship with my thighs. And...

June 07, 2016

My Family Made Sex Normal, and I’m So Grateful

It's possible to normalize sex, gender, and bodies in a family setting. I know this...

June 05, 2016

Why Do Women Wear Revealing Clothes? Part 2

Who do we get to slut-shame and victim blame without consequences? That depends in part...

June 03, 2016

That Time Someone Called the Police on Me in Belly Dance Attire

If you don't get the police called on you for making art, you're doing it...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Is Calling Someone “Cis-Het” Derogatory?

When you put cisgender and heterosexual together, you get cis-het: someone whose life experience has...

May 17, 2016

Bi Invisibility & The Bathroom Panic

All this fuss over who looks like they're "supposed" to be in a given bathroom...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

Trans People Aren’t Sick, The Entire Patriarchy Is

The relentless hyper-sexualization of trans bodies by cisgender people - exemplified by autogynephilia among other...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Workaholic Missives: Sometimes I’m A Shitty Friend

In my Workaholic Missives post series, I talk (mostly abstractly) about the toll that being...

March 23, 2016

On Being a Mostly-Atheist Folklorist

Thus far in my time at Patheos, I've introduced myself and established why having a...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

Removing Shame from the Dance Classroom

I attended the Woodhull Summit on Sexual Freedom last weekend, and while there, took part...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Being Busy & Being Ungrateful

Ack, I'd meant to post more this month. But this month turned into moving (which...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Why I’m an Angry Feminist

I've been turning this post over in my head for a few months, and now...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Essay on Folklore and Power

In order to give y'all a glimpse into what it is that I do as...

June 11, 2012

Be Constructive Before Destructive

I am a teacher, scholar, feminist and performer (among the other identities I shift in...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

Patronizing Forms of Religion/Sexuality

Again, normally I save the sex posts for MySexProfessor.com ... but this is a little...

April 2012

April 22, 2012

Women’s Work and Academia

This Chronicle article by Emma Thornton tells a familiar story: a female academic is told...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Feminism, Agency, and Douches

Yes, you read that right. Last night in conversation with some of my international colleagues,...

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