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So, You like Girls: Dianna Agron, Meet Adrienne Rich
So there I am, minding my own business the Sunday before last, when the Internet goes crazy. Or, rather, one of the corners of the Internet that I keep an eye on went crazy. From D. Agron’s Tumblr at...
View ArticleOn Gay Marriage
A blog about same-sex marriage was in the queue, but given the recent developments in New York it’s suddenly extra timely . . . so here it is now ahead of schedule. I find that the straight people I...
View ArticleHerman Cain and Sexual Harassment, Or: Why we Still need Intersectionality
Reports that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was accused of sexually harassing some women in the mid-1990s, accusations that were settled out of court at the time, have been at the top...
View ArticleTaking Advantage of Rachel in Glee’s "The First Time"
I’m a little behind on watching Glee. Really, I’m perpetually behind on all TV; I don’t think there’s been a time since Star Trek: Voyager went off the air that I tuned in to watch something in a...
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Adventures in Stereotyping: People Who Should Know Better Edition
This week, I’ve been provoked into critiquing the casual ease with which people who, by all indications, ought to understand how to avoid stereotyping reproduce the reduction of groups people to the...
View ArticleHomosexuality is a Choice
As part of my work of professionalization, I have signed up for table of contents alerts for various journals in my areas of interest so that I can keep up on recent work. One such alert came through...
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Steubenville and Electronically Networked Youth Culture
There has been a ton of writing about all the wildly awful things about the Steubenville sexual assault case: the slut-shaming and victim-blaming; the focus on the boys’ “ruined lives” at the expense...
View ArticleThinking Through Polygamy to get to Consent in a Non-normalizing Frame
Recently, my friend and colleague T. J. Tallie published Queering Natal: Settler Logics and the Disruptive Challenge of Zulu Polygamy in GLQ, and since T. J. often has smart things to say I...
View ArticleMy Dissertation Defense #DrMel
And speaking of my dissertation defense, here’s the Prezi for that for those who were unable to attend, since I wasn’t able to have it streamed or live-tweeted.
View ArticleOnce Upon a Rape Culture: @OnceABC and “No Means Yes”
Last night, on a “family show,” families everywhere learned that when a woman says repeatedly over the course of several months that she is not interested in a man, she doesn’t really mean it. They...
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