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June 2017

June 26, 2017

AASECT 2017: Conference Reflections

Being a folklorist who's also a sex educator presenting at a conference mainly geared toward...

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 13, 2017

Academic Females

I'm used to seeing people using female as a noun outside of academic contexts. But...

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...

May 10, 2017

Is Religion the Only Reason to Oppose Gender Fluidity?

If we take religious teachings about gender out of the equation, what is there left...

May 09, 2017

New Study of Trans Children Finds They’re Pretty Normal

GASP, trans people are people. But this new study, based on fieldwork with socially transitioned...

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...

May 01, 2017

Hungers and Hypersexuality: Our AASECT 2017 Panel

With all the fuss about porn addiction and hypersexuality, my colleague Lucie Fielding and I...

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 25, 2017

WSFS 2017: Conference Report

The Western States Folklore Society puts on a great conference, as I discovered over a...

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 14, 2017

The UC Berkeley Folklore Archive Podcast: Folking Around!

The new Folking Around podcast has a theme song, y'all. A THEME SONG. Composed for...

April 12, 2017

WTF Is Gender?

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

April 09, 2017

The Relief of Shedding Academic Drag

I get dressed up to teach five days a week this semester. And while I...

April 07, 2017

What If We Let People Speak for Themselves?

I find it bizarre that we don't ask certain populations to represent themselves in interviews...

April 06, 2017

#FolkloreThursday: Ballad

We've all heard of love ballads, murder ballads, queer cross-dressing ballads...wait, what? Read on to...

March 2017

March 11, 2017

A Third Gender in Japan?

Even as a scholar of gender and culture, I sometimes come across a surprising new...

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 25, 2017

Not to Be Condescending to Other Women, But…

As a feminist, I have a knee-jerk reaction against women who say there's no need...

January 22, 2017

8 Rules for Playing Well with Others (in Dance and Life)

Having danced for more than half my life, I've had the opportunity to form some...

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 10, 2017

Why Don’t Domestic Violence Shootings Upset Us?

Obviously we need to focus on preventing gun violence such as the Pulse massacre. But...

January 06, 2017

Take Away Women’s Health Services, Increase Maternal Mortality Rates

The sad story of American women's health revolves around misguided morality-based policies that punish the...

January 05, 2017

#FolkloreThursday: Women’s Folklore

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

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