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• Submit Your Panel Proposals for #FtBCon by July 22!

  

  FtBCon 3 is fast approaching: August 22-24, 2014. As always, we’re going to have a full weekend of panels, talks, and Cards Against Humanity. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Not All Men™ Categorize People Into Unhelpful Categories

  [Content note: sexual assault]Let’s talk about Not All Men™, and specifically about the disconnect between people who say “not all men!” and people who... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• If Public Breastfeeding Offends You, Don’t Look

  My newest post at the Daily Dot is about public breastfeeding and the controversy surrounding Karlesha Thurman.Like pretty much everything surrounding mothers... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• What Is “Survivor Privilege”? I Don’t Know And Neither Does George Will

  [Content note: sexual assault]At the Daily Dot, I have an analysis of George Will’s useless Washington Post column and many (but not all) of the ways in which i... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• They Have To See It With Their Own Eyes: Men and Violence Against Women

  [Content note: gendered violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment]It’s been about a week and a half since Elliot Rodger shot six people and himself in Isla... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• #YesAllWomen, and Why We Need To Keep Discussing Sexism

  [Content note: misogyny, shootings, violence]I have a piece up at the Daily Dot about #YesAllWomen:It seems to have taken a mass murder for this conversation... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Trigger Warnings Are Not “Censorship”

  In unrelated news, I have a post up at the Daily Dot today about trigger warnings. Excerpt:Students at various universities have been trying to take trigger... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• About That “Laughing at Male Victims of Violence” Video

  [Content note: domestic/intimate partner violence]In response to the Rodger shooting, which I wrote about in my previous post, some people have been sharing thi... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Masculinity, Violence, and Bandaid Solutions

  [Content note: violence, guns, mass shootings, misogyny]We’re all familiar with the pattern now: a solitary young white man goes on a shooting rampage. People... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• On Hating Yourself, And All Of Your Selves

  [Content note: depression]The self, as everyone learns in an introductory psychology class, is not a stable or definable entity. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• “Tumblr Social Justice,” “Social Justice Warriors,” and Their Discontents

  I wrote a Daily Dot piece about the weird Reddit subculture that hates on social justice Tumblr bloggers obsessively:Most people don’t like to think about socia... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Occasional Link Roundup

  Greetings from the Amtrak! I’m on my way to Washington, DC for Women in Secularism 3. Both of my panels are tomorrow, so I’m getting there a day early and... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• “When One is in the Penalty Box, Tears Are Permitted.”

  

  I recently discovered Star Trek. Don’t laugh! I have foreign parents who were unable to expose me to such things in a timely manner. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Force Vs. Nonconsent: The Fight to Redefine Sexual Assault

  [Content note: sexual assault]My piece at the Daily Dot today is about efforts to legally define sexual assault.Like all laws, the legal definitions of crimes... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• How the Purity Myth Perpetuates Rape Culture

  [Content note: sexual assault, racism]I was thinking about the source of all the problematic ways in which our society views and responds to sexual assault–the... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• “But a Feminist Was Mean to Me!”

  Every so often a man publishes some screed about how he’s no longer a feminist because feminists have been mean to him. Every very often, some white person... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Spring in Manhattan

  

  And now for something completely different: these are some of my favorite photos that I’ve taken around the city in the last few weeks. Acquiring a DSLR has mad... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• You Can’t Diagnose Mental Illness from a Tweet

  Today at the Daily Dot, I discussed the strange Twitter behavior of a former Paypal executive and the predictable mass rush to claim that it’s evidence of... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Celebrity Women Are Not “Asking” For Stalking & Harassment

  [Content note: stalking sexual harassment]My latest piece at the Daily Dot explores the disturbing similarities between the ways people dismiss harassment of... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Confidence Is Not the Solution To Gender Inequality

  My latest piece in the Daily Dot discusses research on the double bind that women have to navigate in the workplace, and why I’m so fed up with all the demands... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES