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May 2016

May 20, 2016

Are Children More Likely to be Molested in Bathrooms vs. Churches?

Bathroom abuse is rare, and sexual abuse in churches is rampant for a variety of...

May 20, 2016

More on the Gender Binary

Still struggling to understand the gender binary? This video can help! With facts, and context,...

May 15, 2016

The Body in Folklore Keynote: The Body in Sex Ed, the Classroom, & Alt Ac

The more you believe that you deserve what you get – whether it’s an STI,...

May 14, 2016

The Body in Folklore Keynote: Body Art & Dance

As with the attachment of values to bodies in folk narrative, the bodily constructions in...

May 13, 2016

The Body in Folklore Keynote: Folk Narrative

Folk narrative constructions of the body interact with larger cultural codes assigning morality and value:...

May 11, 2016

Binary Gender Is a Fiction (No Matter What Your God Says)

Binary gender does not exist. If your creation myths told you that humans were created...

May 03, 2016

Don’t Let Transphobic “Activists” Force You To Play Their Game

If we play by their rules, and get upset at people in bathrooms who "shouldn't"...

May 03, 2016

Gender Is Not A Crime

Gender is complicated - and it shouldn't be used as a reason to jail people...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Disgust, Body Shaming, and Gendered Spaces

Disgust is close to a human universal. People have especially strong reactions to smells that...

April 25, 2016

Why I’m Silent About My Sexuality (For Now)

This is a topic that weighs heavily on me and is not easy to write...

April 22, 2016

Dancing the Synchronized Body (or, Making Folklorists Dance)

Greetings from the annual collaborative OSU/IU folklore and ethnomusicology graduate student conference, where I'm delivering...

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...

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...

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 06, 2012

Busy with Recent Projects

I've been meaning to post about various things lately; some of my post ideas include...

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