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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...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

I’m Presenting on Biden Memes in Front of My Colleagues…Today!

Nothing like a good scholarly presentation to get the heart pumping and fill one with...

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...

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...

June 21, 2017

Polyamory and Stigma

Research shows that being polyamorous isn't all frolicking amongst one's multiple sexual partners. The risk...

May 2017

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 05, 2017

“People Who Lead Good Lives” Is Sympathetic Magic

If you wanted to know what symbolic thinking looks like, this is it. And it's...

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 28, 2017

What If Porn Is Less Harmful Than What We Think About Porn?

Two very different studies reach similar conclusions: that one's beliefs about one's interactions with porn...

April 26, 2017

Sex: Questions of Quality and Quantity

Are Americans having less sex than they used to? And if so, is this 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...

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 14, 2017

Sex Therapists on “Fifty Shades” and BDSM

With the new 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequel movie set to release around Valentine's Day,...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is a crucial concept in public policy, public health, sex education, and many...

January 13, 2017

I Don’t Care if it’s Kinky; I Care if it’s Consensual

Sex scandals come and go. The question of consent remains, to me, the most important...

January 09, 2017

Reflections on Gun Control vs. Sexual Control

What's more dangerous, guns or sex? Obviously context matters, but how we have this discussion...

January 07, 2017

I’m Concerned about the First Amendment Defense Act

Another year, another attempt to make it okay to discriminate against alternative sexualities. But this...

January 04, 2017

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 6

Finally, the end of this very long and dense paper! Also known as, "what's the...

January 03, 2017

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 5

Why do female snakes go blind in Japanese folktales? What does vision have to do...

January 02, 2017

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 4

When we talk about snakes and feminine sexuality, there's more to it than the dreaded...

January 01, 2017

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 3

Snake husbands are bad news in Japanese folktales. REALLY bad news. Don't ever marry a...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 2

Here we get into the nitty-gritty of snake symbols: aggressive phallus, devouring womb, or what?...

December 30, 2016

Snake Spouses and Feminine Symbols in Japanese Folktales Part 1

Why do snakes appear as potential spouses in Japanese folktales, and what do they mean?...

December 29, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Coding

Heard of the hanky code? It's one way a vulnerable community protects itself when displaying...

December 09, 2016

On Belly Dance and Feminism

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

December 08, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Folk Religion/Vernacular Religion

Every religion conceptualizes the intersection of the human and the divine differently. This is why...

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