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May 2016

May 31, 2016
When you put cisgender and heterosexual together, you get cis-het: someone whose life experience has...
May 30, 2016
We don't have a lot of longitudinal research on porn, so remind me again why...
May 29, 2016
Sex positivity should be, essentially, a Choose Your Own Adventure story, with as many delicious,...
May 27, 2016
When's the last time you sat around watching porn with 30+ colleagues? All in service...
May 26, 2016
All folklore has a purpose, and our job as folklore scholars is to uncover that...
May 25, 2016
I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the activist and educational work that happens at Woohull's Sexual Freedom...
May 25, 2016
The information we exchange and obtain at sex educator/activists conferences benefits people and changes their...
May 24, 2016
In the U.S. a lot of the sex-positive movement is responding to specific historical influences...
May 23, 2016
If you believe your God would be in favor of basically drop-kicking trans and non-binary...
May 20, 2016
Bathroom abuse is rare, and sexual abuse in churches is rampant for a variety of...
May 20, 2016
Still struggling to understand the gender binary? This video can help! With facts, and context,...
May 19, 2016
The idea that folklore mirrors culture has been around for a century, and continues to...
May 17, 2016
All this fuss over who looks like they're "supposed" to be in a given bathroom...
May 16, 2016
The luxury of those who can ignore bodies – whether in historical folklore scholarship or...
May 15, 2016
The more you believe that you deserve what you get – whether it’s an STI,...
May 14, 2016
As with the attachment of values to bodies in folk narrative, the bodily constructions in...
May 13, 2016
Folk narrative constructions of the body interact with larger cultural codes assigning morality and value:...
May 13, 2016
The first mentions of the body in folklore scholarship are fleeting and metaphorical. Sometimes they’re...
May 13, 2016
Why does it matter what academics do with our bodies, and whether we're public or...
May 12, 2016
Jokes are a treasure trove of data about cultural values, power, marginalized identities, and more....
May 11, 2016
Binary gender does not exist. If your creation myths told you that humans were created...
May 10, 2016
Consenting adults doing sexual things with other consenting adults isn't inherently wrong or bad -...
May 05, 2016
Stereotypes are ugly, giving us caricatures of political parties, extremist religions, and sexist and heterosexist...
May 03, 2016
If we play by their rules, and get upset at people in bathrooms who "shouldn't"...
May 03, 2016
Gender is complicated - and it shouldn't be used as a reason to jail people...

April 2016

April 30, 2016
Disgust is close to a human universal. People have especially strong reactions to smells that...
April 28, 2016
If you're interested in the intersections of religion, culture, and folklore, it's absolutely essential to...
April 25, 2016
This is a topic that weighs heavily on me and is not easy to write...
April 22, 2016
Greetings from the annual collaborative OSU/IU folklore and ethnomusicology graduate student conference, where I'm delivering...
April 21, 2016
In preparation for my keynote, I thought I'd take this week's #FolkloreThursday post to define...
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