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May 2016

May 20, 2016

More on the Gender Binary

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

May 17, 2016

Bi Invisibility & The Bathroom Panic

All this fuss over who looks like they're "supposed" to be in a given bathroom...

May 16, 2016

The Body in Folklore Keynote: Conclusions & Bibliography

The luxury of those who can ignore bodies – whether in historical folklore scholarship or...

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 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 10, 2016

Casual Sex Doesn’t Make You A Bad Person

Consenting adults doing sexual things with other consenting adults isn't inherently wrong or bad -...

May 05, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Stereotype

Stereotypes are ugly, giving us caricatures of political parties, extremist religions, and sexist and heterosexist...

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 28, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Stigma

If you're interested in the intersections of religion, culture, and folklore, it's absolutely essential to...

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 20, 2016

Sex positivity is the view that it doesn’t matter how much sex or what kind...

April 12, 2016

PSA From A Sex Educator: Dildos Have Medical Uses

Sex toys have medical uses, and it's important not to lose sight of that fact...

April 11, 2016

Sex Isn’t Special (But Culture Makes It So)

Sex has biological facets and consequences, but culture makes sex have meaning; sex isn't inherently...

April 09, 2016

Sexually Active ≠ Unprincipled

One of the ways American culture gets sex wrong is by linking sexual activity with...

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...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Teaching, Touching, and Pleasure

I just got back from the annual conference of the American Association of Sexuality Educators,...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Taboo Topics in the Classroom

Over at my sex education blog, Sex Ed with Dr. Jeana, I have a post...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Activist Conversations

I thought about putting this post over at my sex education site, but decided to...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Keep Your Woo Out of My U.

This won't be as citation-laden as many of my posts on academia are, so please...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Sex in a Limited Good Economy

When a friend shared a link to Why We Care About Other People's Sex Lives,...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Would You Do It To A Pet? …and Other Ways to Discuss Deviance & Consent

My post Claiming the Title of Sex Educator recently went live at MySexProfessor, and in...

August 2012

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...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

Patronizing Forms of Religion/Sexuality

Again, normally I save the sex posts for MySexProfessor.com ... but this is a little...

March 2012

March 01, 2012

Academic Mentoring and Sexuality

It warmed my heart to see this Chronicle piece on gay mentors in modern academe....

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