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Movienotes: The Price of Pleasure
Note: This is part two of my series of posts related to a screening of The Price of Pleasure and discussion about pornography that took place at the Boston University School of Public Health on Friday,...
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A Real Thing in the World: “Sexual Flavors”
Image Description: Image is a full-page magazine ad depicting a white, hetero couple in underwear only making out on a bed. Across the top third of the ad is the text “He’ll Scream Your Name. He’ll...
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“How Women’s Studies Mattered in My Life”: A Panel Discussion
On 6 March I participated in a panel presentation/discussion at my alma mater Hope College in celebration of twenty-plus years of women’s studies at the institution (the interdisciplinary minor was...
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Anger on Another’s Behalf: On Feminism, Intimate Relationships, and Rage
I think it was my mother, whose relationship with her parents was contentious, who first told me that it’s often at the moment when an adult child begins to parent themselves that they suddenly look...
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Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been Reading [#7]
Brought to you by an office full of tulips. See more photographs from the BLOOM art installation here and read about the project here. Adam Fisher @ Kinsey Confidential | Why Don’t We Talk To Our...
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Minimalist Wedding Planning: The Basics
While I loved to dress up and play princess or flower fairy in my babysitters’ hand-me-down prom dresses as a child, I don’t remember having much of a thing for weddings. Even my princess games tended...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts: David Blankenhorn’s Evolving Stance on Marriage Equality
Cross-posted from the feminist librarian. Prominent anti-marriage-equality theorist David Blankenhorn (a key expert for the supporters of Prop 8 in California, author The Future of Marriage) has...
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Stuff I Would Write More About …
… if I had the brainspace. Hey Harpies! Here are a handful of posts that have come across in the past week that seem, to me, to engage some important themes around social privilege, economic striving,...
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“One Parent or Five?”: Rambling Thoughts on a Conservative Report
A few weeks ago, I read through the 2011 report One Parent or Five: A Global Look at Today’s New Intentional Families (Elizabeth Marquardt, Principal Investigator) published by the Institute for...
View ArticleQuick Hit: s.e. smith on the Dangers of Justifying Abortion
The incomparable s.e. smith @ Tiger Beatdown: Every time a progressive justifies abortion, one of those horrid ‘lamenting the preborn killed by pinko commie scum’ websites gets another set of animated...
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