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August 2021

August 08, 2021

Shut Up About Bodily Autonomy…Because Public Health

Of course I'm in favor of bodily autonomy: who, especially those of us who consider...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

What I’ve Been Up to in the Folklore World

A lot of academic work is invisible and goes unrewarded...well, somehow a bunch of rewards...

February 21, 2021

If American Belly Dancers Protested Colonialism As Much As Our Dance’s Sexualization…

If you've ever chatted with a belly dancer from the U.S., you've probably heard some...

August 2019

August 07, 2019

Legalizing Sex Work to Stop Male Violence Is As Bad As Jordan Peterson’s Enforced Monogamy

In the wake of yet another mass shooting, I've seen men on Twitter suggesting that...

July 2019

July 24, 2019

Morocco Stories: Part 2

Traveling in Morocco as a woman was definitely interesting; it was probably for the best...

July 11, 2019

Why I’m Obsessively Reading About Misogyny

Understanding misogyny is a grim topic, but a necessary one, as I struggle to make...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Sex May Be a Resource, But Women Are Not

Between my own research and my puttering around on the internet, I'm still fascinated by...

May 2019

May 03, 2019

Stop Building Plots on Women’s Bodies

This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Consider yourselves warned (fyi, the blog image...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

I’m Guest-Lecturing for an Online Class on Witches!

I get to be part of a 6-week masterclass called Seeking the Witch in traditional...

March 2019

March 13, 2019

Dear Democrat Women: I Will Vote for You, But Please Stop Terrorizing Sex Workers

I see a lot of excitement about Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris running for president...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

The Impact of the American Plan

The anti-sex-worker bias seen in the American Plan dovetails with forced sterilization and medical experimentation,...

January 01, 2019

The American Plan and World War I

We can blame war for a lot of things; among them is America's decision to...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

The American Plan: 20th-Century America’s Concentration Camps for Sex Workers

In 1917, the American Plan became law, authorizing doctors and the police to indefinitely imprison...

December 20, 2018

How I Survived a Challenging Semester: Equal Parts Kindness & Boundaries

The workload alone was almost too much for me - and then there was the...

December 04, 2018

The Unequal Distribution of Trauma in Heterosexual Dating

Imagine a culture where sex is viewed as transactional, and yet no one ever receives...

October 2018

October 25, 2018

The American Folklore Society Meeting 2018 #AFSAM18

I've been attending AFS for about 15 years, and while it's always a fun and...

October 20, 2018

Two Reasons for Men to Hate Women

While I’m thrilled that we’re finally having an extended conversation about violence against women on...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Normalize Being Trauma-Informed in a Time of Kavanaugh

I want to tell people to normalize trauma, as in information about trauma and discussions...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

Belly Dance Should Be Inclusive, Part II

I want my dance community to be as inclusive as possible, which to me means...

July 09, 2018

Belly Dance Should Be Inclusive, Part I

In Part 1 of this two-part post, I explain one of the fundamental beliefs I...

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 27, 2018

Somatophobia

One of the concepts I teach whenever I get the chance to is somatophobia. Its...

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 05, 2018

Angry about Missing Children? Welcome to Reproductive Justice.

If you're infuriated about immigrant children being separated from their parents, then you should know...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

Why I’m Cool with Pair-Bonding But Not Enforced Monogamy

Speaking out against enforced monogamy doesn't mean you're anti-monogamy; it's entirely possible that many people...

May 26, 2018

Jordan Peterson Is So Sexist I Don’t Need to Know Anything Else

I know we should be judging the idea and not the person who came up...

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...

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 15, 2017