"Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them."

- Gayle Rubin, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of SexualityI ( Read more... )

From Making Meaning of Relationships: Young Women's Experiences and Understandings of Dating Violence by Donna Chung (2007, Violence Against Women 13:12):

The findings suggest there are two related and noteworthy differences between the current generation of young women and the previous generations. First, young women now expect and feel pressure ( Read more... )

I wanted to share a paragraph in a book that really spoke to me on the topic of why the notion of impartiality actually reifies the dominance of certain perspectives over others. I haven't read the chapter where the author develops her point, but I thought this was nice to share as a starting point for thinling about this.

From Iris Marion Young, ( Read more... )

We watched one of Stuart Hall's lectures tonight in class. Nothing ground-breaking, but beautifully articulate on issues of meaning-making and representation ( Read more... )

"There are [...] queer kids who do not become queer adults and kids who were not queer that do."

(Interrupting Heteronormativity: Toward a Queer Curriculum Theory, by Sumara, D. & Davis, B.)

From "Queering/Querying Pedagogy? Or, Pedagogy is a Pretty Queer Thing" by Susanne Luhmann (1998), discussing Rosello's essay "'Get out of here!' Modern Queer Language in the 1990's" (1994).

Mireille Rosello's equation of studying lesbian and gay material with learning a foreign language gets at some of the issues at stake for a pedagogy that is ( Read more... )

From Ladson-Billings, G., & Tate, W. F. (1998). “Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education? Qualitative Studies in Education, 11 (1), p. 7-24.
Talking about the disparity between per pupil spending often invites the critique that money doesn’t matter. Studies as far back as Coleman et al. (1966) and Jencks ( Read more... )

Reading about heterosex and feeling a little down at how male hegemony is just so closely intertwined with the way we see sex - it's like even when we think we're in an egalitarian relationship where the woman is treated the same as the man, our accounts of sex reveal systemic inequalities. :/ I find myself wondering if it's possible to have non- ( Read more... )

I was browsing through books to bring some home, and I found this really articulate quote on coming out:

"Coming out is, after all, a result of heterosexual practices more than homosexuality. It is not queers' unsolicited burdening of others with our secrets, but the relentless incitement to discourse, as Foucault put it, that makes it nearly ( Read more... )

"We have to do the things we do that seem so hard on the community to make sure there is a community."
- Joss Whedon interviewThis is so true it hurts. And it's so true because it transcends the issues that writers and actors have been having with the AMPTP - at the very core of environmental issues, this is what it's about, too: making tough ( Read more... )