Consent Is Not A Contract
After teaching about sex education for a semester, my students and I had a lot of conversations about what consent is and why American schools aren't handling the topic well. This comes down to - in...
View ArticleAre We Overusing the Term Emotional Labor?
When I first learned about the term emotional labor, it was like I’d just been given a key to unlock experiences I’d been having but didn’t have the words to describe. Did I then go on to misuse the...
View ArticleSex May Be a Resource, But Women Are Not
Between my own research and my puttering around on the internet, I'm still fascinated by the idea of how we conceive of sex and consent as tangible things (or not). However, it's easy for this rhetoric...
View ArticleEmotion Work vs. Emotional Labor
I recently had the opportunity to explain to someone what I think is a key distinction for when we use the term emotional labor and when we talk more generally about how humans work with emotions in...
View ArticleLegalizing Sex Work to Stop Male Violence Is As Bad As Jordan Peterson’s...
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, I've seen men on Twitter suggesting that we legalize sex work in order to give these poor sexless dudes an outlet so they don't go on shooting sprees. But this...
View ArticleTrauma Stewardship
As we all know, I like to nerd out about trauma. But sometimes, it hits too close to home, and I need help in continuing to do the work that brings me into contact with trauma (in addition to...
View ArticleThe #MeToo Take Two Panel at #AFSAM19 (Part 2 of 2)
Part of grappling with sexual assault from a folklorist's perspective means taking into account how it impacts communities and their cultures, and wow are there some ethical considerations to be...
View ArticleShould Folklorists Blog?
The answer, obviously, is yes on some level, because this folklorist is definitely blogging right now, but I want to dig in a bit deeper as to why we might want to blog, or why we might want to...
View ArticlePositionality and My Writing on Dance
Pausing to reflect on one's social positioning in regard to one's writing is a good thing to do...preferably before publishing said piece of writing. Here are a few thoughts on my recent work on the...
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