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A Raging Case (opens the original)
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It’s not just that I’m sad, it’s also that I’m angry, and not just angry, also nauseous. But really not just nauseous, I’m honestly furious. When I think about the women and men I know who’ve been sexually assaulted, I grieve. When I recall moments from my own life when boyfriends blurred the lines and mocked me for finding fault, I rage. And when I think about my daughter entering the world full of the joy that is her birthright and also a world full of violence that’s rebranded “a single mista
They did WHAT??? (opens the original)
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My post two weeks ago looked at the furor that ensued after SUNY–New Paltz hosted a conference in the fall of 1997, called “Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women’s Sexual Freedom.” Republican governor George Pataki and Candace de Russy, a member of the SUNY board of trustees, called for the firing of SUNY New Paltz president Roger Bowen and demanded an investigation into whether the Women’s Studies department had broken the law by hosting it. Editorials deno
Isn’t that revolting? Controversies over queer studies and LGBTQ history [AUDIO] (opens the original)
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Isn’t that revolting? Controversies over queer studies and LGBTQ history (opens the original)
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The first course I offered when I started teaching college students 19 years ago was a survey of the history of sexuality in America, and I’ve taught it nearly every year since then. “American Sexualities” is a general education elective that draws students from across the university. I don’t recall seeing anything like it in the course catalog when I was an undergraduate in the mid-1990s, but that decade was pivotal to the growth of LGBTQ+ studies on college campuses.<a class="image-link image2
Worth the Risk [AUDIO] (opens the original)
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