Call for participants!!! I am conducting ethnographic research on polyamory in communities of color of the East Bay. I would like to interview people of color, between the ages of 30 and 45 years old, who are open to their
We have a cultural concept that assumes a genetic hard-wiring to gender roles and sexual behavior. This cultural assumption is disseminated through popular media, creating a form of ‘pop-evo-psych’. In a 2009 article published in the journal Feminist Media Studies,
The first year of grad school is completed. Many thanks to all of those shoulders, arms, minds and smiles that helped me stay sane for the most part. Those last two weeks were a bit surreal. But I got good
I’m in the middle of writing three papers right now, and there are ideas I want to write in them, but I can’t, and I am sort of in love with the thoughts I am having, so I’m taking a
News flash #1: My research protocol was accepted! No revisions were required and it is exempt from further oversight. Which means my English degree was worth every minute because I am a bad-ass punctuater. (yes, I just improperly conjugated the
In part two of Evolution’s Rainbow, “Human Rainbows,” author Joan Roughgarden applies her theory of variation to the singular Homo species. The author is seeking to collapse the one size fits all categories of male and female by bringing to
I’m in a social justice sexuality studies graduate program. Which means I am a feminist, anti-racist, sex-positive, trans inclusive, binary rejecting, structure dismantling academic. Another way of saying that: if you are a misogynistic, racist, slut-shaming, homophobe, oblivious to your
I loved this book. I am only posting about the first two parts, so that the rest remains a mystery and you go and read it! In the first two parts of the book, Sex at Dawn, authors Ryan and
Let’s start with the overwhelmingly well received Slut-Shaming post I wrote for the Good Vibrations Mag. It’s been up for just over a week and at the moment, it’s at over 11,000 hits, over 3000 people have liked it on
I use that phrase a lot. “… in conversation.” Seems like I’m always talking to somebody, usually several somebodies, in my head. I carry people around in my mind because they’re not next to me. I’ve always done this, thinking