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July 2021

July 08, 2021

My New Fairy-Tale Research: All Queer, All the Time

Ah, summertime, when academics everywhere finally get to work on our research. Mine, I realize,...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

My Personal SFF Canon: Weirdo Feminist

The spring semester is over but my brain is still melted from it and the...

March 2021

March 19, 2021

(The New) The Body Is Not An Apology

As a body scholar and feminist, I hunger for ways to explore and inhabit our...

March 05, 2021

Where Gendered and Institutional Care Collide

As with any crisis, the pandemic is revealing various negative things about the social systems...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

If American Belly Dancers Protested Colonialism As Much As Our Dance’s Sexualization…

If you've ever chatted with a belly dancer from the U.S., you've probably heard some...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Why You Should Care About Dr. Jill Biden’s Title Even If You Think Academia Is Elitist

I know the ivory tower can seem insular and out of touch to some people,...

December 26, 2019

The #MeToo Take Two Panel at #AFSAM19 (Part 2 of 2)

Part of grappling with sexual assault from a folklorist's perspective means taking into account how...

October 2019

October 26, 2019

The #MeToo Take Two Panel at #AFSAM19 (Part 1 of 2)

One of the highlights of the recent American Folklore Society meeting was a panel discussing...

August 2019

August 13, 2019

There Is No Such Thing as Toxic Femininity

I'm glad, on the one hand, that toxic masculinity has practically become a household word;...

August 07, 2019

Legalizing Sex Work to Stop Male Violence Is As Bad As Jordan Peterson’s Enforced Monogamy

In the wake of yet another mass shooting, I've seen men on Twitter suggesting that...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Morocco Stories: Part 3

Morocco has a very intense colonial history, and its specter lingers in both obvious and...

July 24, 2019

Morocco Stories: Part 2

Traveling in Morocco as a woman was definitely interesting; it was probably for the best...

July 19, 2019

Emotion Work vs. Emotional Labor

I recently had the opportunity to explain to someone what I think is a key...

July 11, 2019

Why I’m Obsessively Reading About Misogyny

Understanding misogyny is a grim topic, but a necessary one, as I struggle to make...

July 08, 2019

Empathy for Women Should Not Be a Magic Plot Device

I am reading YA novels alongside feminist theory alongside fairy tales these days, and I'm...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

Opposing Veterans’ Rights & LGBTQ+ Rights Is Dumb

In a rare rant-style post, I take down the already-dubious logic of some silly thing...

June 10, 2019

Sex May Be a Resource, But Women Are Not

Between my own research and my puttering around on the internet, I'm still fascinated by...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

A Rant on Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird

Spoilers ahoy for the novel under discussion. But wow, does this ever need to be...

May 03, 2019

Stop Building Plots on Women’s Bodies

This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Consider yourselves warned (fyi, the blog image...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

I’m Guest-Lecturing for an Online Class on Witches!

I get to be part of a 6-week masterclass called Seeking the Witch in traditional...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

The Impact of the American Plan

The anti-sex-worker bias seen in the American Plan dovetails with forced sterilization and medical experimentation,...

January 01, 2019

The American Plan and World War I

We can blame war for a lot of things; among them is America's decision to...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

The American Plan: 20th-Century America’s Concentration Camps for Sex Workers

In 1917, the American Plan became law, authorizing doctors and the police to indefinitely imprison...

December 27, 2018

If Your Culture Treats Women Like Crap, Then Maybe Your Culture Is Crap

Bouncing between large- and small-scale evaluations of a culture can be complicated sometimes, but I...

December 24, 2018

Are We Overusing the Term Emotional Labor?

When I first learned about the term emotional labor, it was like I'd just been...

December 22, 2018

Consent Is Not A Contract

After teaching about sex education for a semester, my students and I had a lot...

December 20, 2018

How I Survived a Challenging Semester: Equal Parts Kindness & Boundaries

The workload alone was almost too much for me - and then there was the...

December 10, 2018

If You Are Against Sex Trafficking But Do Not Support Cyntoia Brown, Please Shut Up Forever

News is circulating about the teenager Cyntoia Brown, who was trafficked into sex work and...

December 04, 2018

The Unequal Distribution of Trauma in Heterosexual Dating

Imagine a culture where sex is viewed as transactional, and yet no one ever receives...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Dear U.S. Government: Trans People Exist. I Know Because I Research Them.

I've been researching transgender identities and issues for over a decade, so I'm appalled at...

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