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May 09, 2017
New Study of Trans Children Finds They’re Pretty Normal
GASP, trans people are people. But this new study, based on fieldwork with socially transitioned...
May 08, 2017
It’s Patreon Time! (Also, Drunk Folklore?!?!!)
I decided to start a Patreon for my writing & conferencing activities. The problem is,...
May 07, 2017
Here’s the Problem with the American Health Care System
I feel like I can sum it up in one sentence (and in fact already...
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 04, 2017
#FolkloreThursday: Customary Folklore
When folklore crosses into the realm of religion, ritual, festival, and holiday, we consider it...
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 02, 2017
This Is My Week of Getting Trolled, Apparently
Someone actually devoted a whole Youtube video mocking me and my fellow Conditionally Accepted bloggers....
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 30, 2017
Calling Someone Degenerate Doesn’t Help Your Argument
I don't have really high expectations for the degree of quality in online comments, but,...
April 29, 2017
Today’s Work Motivation? The Disapproving Judith Butler Site.
Sometimes it takes extra motivation to get myself in gear. This brilliant site displaying Judith...
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 27, 2017
#FolkloreThursday: Verbal Folklore
If you've heard or used slang, or encountered an urban legend, then you, my friend,...
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 25, 2017
WSFS 2017: Conference Report
The Western States Folklore Society puts on a great conference, as I discovered over 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 19, 2017
Fighting Holocaust Deniers? There’s an Archive for That.
I wish I could say, There's an app for that, but since the London archive...
April 18, 2017
Birthday, Berkeley, Bittersweet
Yesterday was my birthday, and amidst the celebrating (partially while on campus to teach), I...
April 15, 2017
Split Has Arrived!
My contributor's copy of Split is here, and I'm so excited on so many levels...
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 13, 2017
#FolkloreThursday: Superstition and Folk Belief
Is calling someone "superstitious" an insult? If so, why? In this post we'll unpack what...
April 12, 2017
WTF Is Gender?
I just wrote a definition of gender that I'm pretty proud of (for a conference...
April 11, 2017
Spooning Your Books to Sleep
I know I'm not the only scholar to fall asleep with books on my bed....
April 10, 2017
#beautifulresistance: Stories, Dance, Adornment
Resisting injustice and bigotry means fighting, but that doesn't only mean bleak and barren media,...
April 09, 2017
The Relief of Shedding Academic Drag
I get dressed up to teach five days a week this semester. And while I...
April 07, 2017
What If We Let People Speak for Themselves?
I find it bizarre that we don't ask certain populations to represent themselves in interviews...
April 06, 2017
#FolkloreThursday: Ballad
We've all heard of love ballads, murder ballads, queer cross-dressing ballads...wait, what? Read on to...
April 04, 2017
#ICFA38: Fantastic Epics (Conference Recap)
What do fantasy scholars and folklorists do when they gather to discuss epic narratives? Have...
April 03, 2017
Happy Patheos Blog-iversary to Me
Hey, I've been blogging here for a year. Here are some things I've learned along...
March 2017
March 30, 2017
#FolkloreThursday: Folk Music & Folk Song
Folk music and folk song are giant topics which I won't do justice to here,...
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