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The Other (Religious) Dimensions of Sexuality
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_items#/media/File:Fastentuch.jpg) One of the main ideologies of religion, which Ninian Smart has pointed out, is that of the ethical,...
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Intimacy, Play, and Identity
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BDSM_equipment#/media/File:Salon-erotik_Besançon_001.JPG) Sexuality is, still, something seen as taboo, and deemed not appropriate for everyday...
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Sexual Harassment, Culture, and Gender Norms
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sexual_harassment#/media/File:Army_stock_photograph,_reenactment_shot_by_Pfc._Elizabeth_Fournier_140403-A-IY594-001.jpg) In patriarchal societies,...
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Will the LGBTQ Community Ever Become Ubiquitous?
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_rights#mediaviewer/File:Demonstration,_with_Gay_Liberation_Front_Banner.jpg, via Wikimedia Commons) During the trials of Eric Garner, Michael...
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The Queer Life: Surrounding Myself in Queer Culture and Queer Spaces
Over the past few months, I have been deep in the throes of my thesis- conducting, transcribing, coding, and analyzing interviews- on homonationalism and scripting of student identities in study...
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Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House: Justifying Plot Twists through...
On Christmas, my family decided to spend some time at the movies watching the newly released movie Into the Woods, a movie rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s infamous operetta/musical by the same name....
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CONAIE Headquarters to be Shut Down: Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador Request...
Protestors gather outside the CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador) in Quito, Ecuador. Yesterday, in Quito, Ecuador, hundreds of Indigenous people from around the country, including...
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Cancer is Not a Pink Ribbon (part 1)
http://ideborah.com/ As a belated nod to ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ (October, in the USA), and the plethora of pink, breast-cancer-sponsored items now on sale, I want to talk about the rise of...
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No Ma’am, This Is Not New York City
Source: Southern-Style.com As teachers of sociology, we are constantly reminding our students of the ways in which culture and social structures shape our everyday behaviors. We stress this point as...
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Crisp Culture: a national obsession.
[Source: By Gerolsteiner91 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons] In the UK, this week marks the end of British Summer Time....
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Are We All Expert Impostors?
Image credit: PhD Comics www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1723 In a previous post (which can be found here), I mentioned the ‘impostor phenomenon’ and how I and many people I know who work...
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A Makeover for Cosmopolitan?
Source: Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 2014 Every day I drive a half hour from my home to my office at the university and a half an hour from the university back home. Like many of my peers, I pass...
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“Women are bitches”, and other obvious tales from the Sociological front line
www.glamour.com Words excite me. I can’t help it, words are all I have really: they are my bread and butter and what keeps the wolves from the door, and what gets me up in the morning. And a lot of...
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Learning to Fail or Failing to Learn
Here is a picture of me and a Sapara boy taken on my camera by a girl in Jandiayacu, the Sapara community where I began my research. Nobody really talks about how or why his or her research failed, or...
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Why the Fracking “Haves” Come Out Ahead
Photograph taken by Joanne Koehler. This is a guest post by Jamie Longazel and Joanne Koehler. Jamie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the...
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Don’t Quote Me On This!
Here is a photo I took of an elderly woman in Jandiayacu. She is one of very few people (possible only five remaining) who speak and have a deep knowledge of the Sapara Language. The knowledge of...
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Going Out of My Mind in Jandiayacu
This is a photo I took in July, 2014, during my fieldwork in Jandiayacu. Jandiayacu is a Sapara community in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. It is accessible only by plane or a difficult journey on...
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Pick-Up Artists and Anti-Pick-Up Artists: Promises of Sexist Gender...
["White Ribbon". Source: MesserWoland [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]In response to the horrific murders at UC Santa Barbara two weeks ago, many commentators have pointed out the perpetrator’s...
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Throwing like a Girl? The Case for Gender Similarity in Sports
Source: Nathan Rupert (SD) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.Finally, it’s almost summer. And as the weather gets better, more and more social life in my neighborhood shifts outside to the street. As...
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The Marathon and Gender Equality
By Richard Smith from Bowen Island, Canada (Chicago Marathon – the start) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Last week marked the first installment of the...
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