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December 2017

December 23, 2017

Fed Up with Complicit Women? Consider Why They Buy in to the Patriarchy.

For all the thought-provoking and vulnerable #MeToo posts, some posts lament women who go along...

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 08, 2017

#TriangleSCI 2017 Day 2

On the second day, my team presented our take on scholarly storytelling. And the conversation...

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 &...

July 2017

July 16, 2017

Because Yanking Funding from Teen Pregnancy Research Sounds GREAT

It seems the Trump administration is kicking disenfranchised groups while they're down, such as the...

July 05, 2017

Follow-Up Thoughts to Patriotic-ish Post

America's not doing so great by a number of metrics these days. But there are...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Nuances of Empathy and Self-Care

Among my sex ed colleagues doing work on empathy, Kate McCombs consistently does amazing work....

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...

April 2017

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...

March 2017

March 13, 2017

Writing and Risk

With a bunch of big events coming up for me - both in print and...

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 07, 2017

Academics: Educate and #Resist

In the face of fascist antics, we need to play to our strengths in order...

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 08, 2017

Watching a Paradigm Shift: Sugar

The intersections of science, food, the body, and fatness are fascinating and, unfortunately, relevant to...

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...

December 2016

December 09, 2016

On Belly Dance and Feminism

Being a belly dancer and being a feminist are not mutually exclusive. This seems obvious...

December 07, 2016

Why I Hate the Naturalization of Femininity, and You Should Too

Let's make it seem like women's bodies are self-contained vessels of naturally-occurring perfection! That's a...

December 03, 2016

Of COURSE I’m a Folklorist Studying Emotional Labor

When we talk about folklore as the social glue that holds communities together, it brings...

December 02, 2016

If You Love Dance, You Love Diversity

Most dance is multicultural in nature, and practiced by people who are guaranteed to be...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Foodways

Studying food is fun, because food is delicious. But it also gives us insights into...

November 13, 2016

Glimpses of Sexual Entitlement in the History of Sex Education

Sexual desire has been normalized (for white heterosexual men) in the sex education of the...

November 12, 2016

We All Process Differently (And That’s Okay)

Emotional processing takes work. So does activism. Here's what the two have in common: a...

November 09, 2016

We’re Stuck Sharing This Country, So Let’s Not Eradicate Each Other, Okay?

Many of us are vulnerable & we know it. In order to coexist, we're asking...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Unethical Pelvic Exams: The Reason Behind At Your Cervix Documentary

It's not uncommon for medical students to learn invasive procedures on unconscious patients. This documentary...

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