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June 2018

June 29, 2018

Bringing It Back to the Body

Teaching a class about the body is, obviously, an embodied experience. I found a great...

June 19, 2018

The Point of Universal Human Rights Is That They’re UNIVERSAL

I've seen some pretty off-putting comments about how asylum-seekers to the U.S. deserve what they're...

June 16, 2018

Does Being Bored by Peterson for 2 Hours Mean I Finally Have Context?

Yes, I went to the Jordan Peterson talk in my town. No, it wasn't the...

June 13, 2018

Should I Live-Tweet Peterson’s Talk in My City?

Fans of Jordan Peterson are complaining that I haven't adequately given him a chance to...

June 07, 2018

Trans Tales & Queer Witches: Sex-Positive Images & Resources in Folklore

Do folklore and sex positivity go hand in hand, or does folklore only give us...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

My Writing Will Appear Soon at Wyrd & Wyse

Somehow in this crazy-busy semester I've kept up with creative writing, which is leading to...

December 2017

December 18, 2017

We Need Evidence-Based Policies Now More Than Ever: CDC, Your Turn to #Resist

Hey, I know, let's hobble one of our nation's most important research centers so that...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

Why You Should Care About Scholarly Communication (#TriangleSCI)

Hi, I don't know why you're reading my blog right now, but I'm going to...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

If the Concept of Privilege Doesn’t Work for You, Maybe It’s Not FOR You

Yes, I know the concept of privilege doesn't resonate with everyone who hears it, but...

September 18, 2017

Gender and Privilege

Let's continue the conversation on privilege by bringing gender into the spotlight as an identity...

September 15, 2017

The Privilege Post

This is a post I've been meaning to make for a long time, defining &...

September 14, 2017

Dear White Supremacists: Why Would You Cite Me?!

Everybody hates being taken out of context. But there's an additional level of awfulness when...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Two Scholarly Takes on Fascism

I'm sick of white supremacy and Nazis getting free passes to spread hate speech, but...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Evolutionary Psychology Is a Story (and Not a Good One)

All scientific knowledge is situated in cultural context & people seem to forget this, especially...

July 15, 2017

June 2017

June 30, 2017

American Belly Dancers: Support Your Muslim Neighbors

If you're a belly dancer in America, you owe it to the roots of your...

June 29, 2017

#FolkloreThursday: Horizontal vs. Vertical Transmission

In folklore studies we like to nerd out about how precisely folklore gets transmitted. That's...

May 2017

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 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 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...

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...

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