Gang rape, pulling a train, gang bang, serial sex. These painful words that hurt, following or preceding or completely apart and separate from the acts they describe.
And then that one word that looms so large: SLUT.
And the smaller ones words that follow: she wanted it, she asked for it, dresses like a whore, I knew [...]
Archives for October, 2009
The pain we cause
Negotiating about social media
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blogs, blogs, and more blogs - so much online space, so many questions!
I am delighted to announce that I will be moderating a panel called Negotiating The Parent/Teen Divide Over Social Networking at SXSW Interactive 2010.
I’m very excited about this panel as an opportunity for parents and teenagers to speak directly [...]
Mama Who Bore Me
I had the pleasure of seeing Spring Awakening on Tuesday. I had never seen it, nor had I read a full plot description. So while I knew it was one of those things I needed to see, I didn’t have any preconceptions or really any details at all.
What I found in Spring Awakening was a [...]
On the Glamour parade
I wrote a reaction over on The Belly Project about Glamour magazine’s article and accompanying photo spread with “plus-sized” models. Glamour’s rather self-righteous tone and the plethora of too-excited, supposed-society-exploding headlines were all getting to me.
The one really good thing to come out of Glamour’s photo shoot? This really beautiful picture:
(Please ignore the [...]
The seductive allure of the music…
Tonight I am preparing for a class tomorrow morning on gender. I start all my college classes with a song that is relevant to the topic, and my dear partner and I were playing around with music for tomorrow, including The Kink’s Lola, Vitamin C’s Girls Against Boys, Beyonce’s If I Were a Boy, and [...]
Laid
A new book hit the bookstores on Friday, and it is very well worth the trip to buy it. Laid is a collection of first person accounts of sexual experiences written by teenagers and young adults. The book tells real stories of real people. There are stories that are essentially good, bad, and mixed. [...]
My purple hair
I don’t think I’ve mentioned in this space that I dyed my hair purple about six months ago. I hadn’t ever dyed my hair before, and I thought it would be fun. So away I went! Bleach first, then a luscious dark purple. The purple is in a crown around my hairline - the majority [...]
