My rss feed pointed me to an unsurprising article about a talk that Phyllis Schlafly gave as part of a new course offered at The Citadel, Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America. According to her: “Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,” she said. Schlafly talked to a group of […]

I wrote this for the Momentum Conference anthology, to accompany my presentation at the event. What does “queer” mean? One of the things about the word queer that fascinates me is how many meanings it has. It can be used as an adjective, a pejorative, a noun, an identity, a sexual orientation, and as a […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. This last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at MOMENTUM: Making Waves in Sexuality, Feminism, and Relationships. It was easily the best sexuality conference I’ve ever been to and I’m still smiling from it. There were a lot of reasons I enjoyed it so much, […]

In all of the discussion and debate about Rush Limbaugh’s recent attack on and pseudo-apology to Sandra Fluke, there’s a piece that I want to call out: if you don’t respect sluts, you don’t respect women. There have been other articles, like Yasmin Nair’s In Defense of Sluts, that touch on this. As she said, […]

I’m really looking forward to being on the keynote panel for this event, as well as presenting a new workshop, Queer is a Verb. There are some amazing speakers on the lineup, as well as some really fun entertainment. And Carol Queen & I will be hosting a meet and greet, too. If you’re looking for […]

I found this on Tumblr and I’m just passing it on. See below for info and links. I’m currently working on my senior thesis, a critique of queer theory and queer studies that focuses on the ways in which these disciplines presume a singular queer person/experience, which ultimately centers white gay men and subsequently erases […]

There’s an interesting pattern I’ve seen over and over: a lot of people equate nudity and sexuality. This probably isn’t news to you, but I think it has some really important consequences. One of them, of course, is that there are all sorts of laws regulating things like nudity or topless women in public, even […]