As a health geographer, it is a given that place matters. Where you are born, where you live, where you … More
Category: Sexuality
News and Links Roundup: 5 November 2013
Sarah Kendzior, “Surviving the Post-Employment Economy” “In the United States, nine percent of computer science majors are unemployed, and 14.7 … More
Glass Ceilings, Grassroots, and Such: Why Top-Down Feminisms Don’t Work
When you shatter glass ceilings, does that mean you shower the grassroots with glass shards? I tweeted that in a … More
An Open Letter to Self-Identified Allies to [Marginalized Group]
Dear Self-Identified Ally, (1) Remember that your identity as an “ally” is contingent upon the maintenance of the status quo. … More
Is Your Respectability Bulletproof?: The (bio)Politics of Respectability and the Lives that Matter
I see this image used without irony all over the internet. I don’t think it’s funny. It just reminds me … More
The Calculus of Life
Brown body. Gendered body. Classed body. Dis/abled body. Queer body. Transgressive bodies. The calculus of life leaves these Othered bodies … More
On The Anti-Trafficking Discourse and its Material Consequences
(cross-linked with my other blog) WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING? According to the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially … More
In Defense of a More Deliberately Corporeal Feminism
“The body is the inscribed surface of events.” – Michel Foucault If you haven’t yet, I recommend the previous blog … More
Rethinking the Ontological Basis of Feminisms
“Feminism made a mistake in trying to make “women” a discrete, ahistorical group with common characteristics.” – Judith Butler ”No … More
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