Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

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August 2011

Got gender neutral housing?

Once again i am plugging my (ever-expanding) list of universities and colleges in North America (and beyond!) that offer gender-neutral housing. I’ve just expanded the list further—not only adding fourteen new schools (and a new state—hello, Indiana!) to the list, but also adding information, where i have it, about who the options are available to. Unfortunately, in many cases...

Using technology to close the gender gap in Sierra... →

Moves are afoot in Sierra Leone to empower women through mobile phone ownership and improved computer literacy

Is this the last female sexual taboo? →

soydulcedeleche: fuckyeahgenderstudies: soydulcedeleche: side eye. you have to be white to be thinking masturbation is “the last” female sexual taboo. seriously. im always left wondering where the fuck do ya’ll live? Can you elaborate? for WOC color simply existing =sexual taboo. we havent even gotten to bodily autonomy yet, much less masturbation, i mean. really. I completely agree...

Is this the last female sexual taboo? →

soydulcedeleche: side eye. you have to be white to be thinking masturbation is “the last” female sexual taboo. seriously. im always left wondering where the fuck do ya’ll live? Can you elaborate?

Sick woman, soft target: Mental illness is so... →

When Mariah Carey started crying on TV or Britney Spears shaved her head, people tutted and frowned. As an out-of-condition, lethargic and clearly unwell Britney debuted her new single Gimme More live on TV in 2007, the BBC’s David Willis declared it would “go down in the history books as being one of the worst to grace the MTV awards”. There was no sympathy; suddenly it was...

US & Canadian schools with gender-neutral housing

angelicainpoland: fuckyeahgenderstudies: Applying to college? Check out my list of 123 US & Canadian schools with gender-neutral housing #college #lgbt #gender http://t.co/xHjNxSP Wait, why isn’t Knox on this list? :( We have gender neutral housing, don’t we? (Or maybe do we not count since that’s not possible your first year?) It’s not on the list because i’m not psychic....

one-sky asked: hi, i have a question that i guess is a little bit weird. im 16 and trying to figure a few things out about this topic, im just in an awkword position in life right now and needed to know if it was possible to be an 'asexual bisexual' as in both at once. it is clear to me that i am attracted to both males and females but when it comes to anything sexual i don't want to be involved....

Applying to college? Check out my list of 123 US & Canadian schools with gender-neutral housing #college #lgbt #gender http://t.co/xHjNxSP

Ronald Weitzer: Myths About Human Trafficking →

missanndree: workingsex: Here is a quick summary of the myths that Weitzer discusses: Trafficking is a mammoth problem Trafficking is growing worldwide Sex work and sex trafficking are the same thing Of course, read the article for more details. More white washing from the Pro Slavery crowd. Disgusted by these creeps who try to downplay the demand for these enslaved women cause these...

Ronald Weitzer: Myths About Human Trafficking →

workingsex: Here is a quick summary of the myths that Weitzer discusses: Trafficking is a mammoth problem Trafficking is growing worldwide Sex work and sex trafficking are the same thing Of course, read the article for more details.

oppressionisyucky-deactivated20 asked: I wanted to reply to the person asking about Pomona, as an orientation leader at Portland State University, even though we spent days talking about queer resources on campus there are still some people who didn't absorb everything the same way I barely remember anything other than the minimum about Transportation services. I'd try e-mailing the director of Pomona's Queer Resource...

Judge Rules Gay Man's Children Can't Be Alone With... →

ohmygay: Even though there were absolutely no allocations of abuse from anyone a Houston judge ruled that a gay man’s children (he was seeking custody of his children from his wife who currently has custody, with regular visits to the father) could not be left alone with his husband. What.

this-spaceship asked: Hey there! I found the list of colleges with gender-neutral dorming to be amazing. I attended a tour and information session at Pomona College, and I found that even with the existence of a Queer Resource Center, the staff conducting the tours were really ignorant when it came to sexuality and queer-inclusivity on campus. That makes me really nervous about wanting to attend. Do you know of any...

shiningfuriouswriggler asked: Hey, I'm a n00b to tumblr, so I don't know how to send messages. But on the list of Colleges/Universities with gender neutral housing, Salem State University in MA does, but it's like UMASS Amherst, you must be housed with someone of the same sex marker.

Eyes-deep in dissertation

Currently freaking out/working my ass off. Sorry for lack of posts. I am, at least, making regular updates to the gender neutral housing list—about 35 news schools added since Friday. In the meantime, please nominate me for Student Blogger in the Cosmo Blog Awards (if you want to). Nominations close next Wednesday, Aug 31, at midnight. If i make the shortlist (which is all i’m really...

Trans Inmate Transferred From Female to Male... →

pansexualpride: A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer raises some troublesome questions about the treatment of transgender inmates. There are a number of concerns also raised by the way the story is being reported by the paper as well. I have contacted one of the reporters on the story, and we have plans to speak on Wednesday. Firstly, given the stereotypes of transgender people, it is not an...

Colleges with gender-neutral housing →

selurehteraselur: chauve-souris: fuckyeahgenderstudies So, college and university application season is about to begin in earnest soon, and I understand that many of my readers will be doing just that—researching and applying to colleges and universities for undergraduate or graduate study. A big concern for many young students is housing on campus—what dorms will be like, &c. A bigger...

No Longer Quivering: Women Recovering From... →

We may be increasingly represented in the... →

Up to one in three new appointments have gone to women in the six months since Lord Davies’s report urged all FTSE 100 companies to set themselves targets for improving board diversity. Yet lower down the food chain, women are not faring so well. Exactly as campaigners such as the Fawcett Society had warned, job losses are falling disproportionately on women as the government’s...

Check out my list of 104 North American universities and colleges with gender neutral housing options! #gender #lgbt http://t.co/vNmU2NJ

futuredrsam667 replied to your post: Check out my list of 104 North American… Grand Valley State U. just got gender neutral housing approved. I was so proud and happy! Make that 105, then!

Is this the last female sexual taboo? →

Gender gap exists even in pocket money! →

(Also, what the hell does an eight year old need £4.44 a week for?!)

EHRC: Women must wait 70 years for equal share of... →

Colleges with Gender Neutral Housing list now has... →

In 29 states + DC too. Keep ‘em coming.

Colleges with gender-neutral housing →

So, college and university application season is about to begin in earnest soon, and I understand that many of my readers will be doing just that—researching and applying to colleges and universities for undergraduate or graduate study. A big concern for many young students is housing on campus—what dorms will be like, &c. A bigger concern for some students is whether the colleges...

Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever. →

Women prefer the “Mommy Track”. Read this, please, everybody. It’s really interesting and takes a fresh look at a lot of statistics many people consistently churn out without really examining what they mean and what’s behind them. For starters, the gender wage gap isn’t nearly as high as most of us believe. Check it out.

Of course it's outrageous that someone's been...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/872576-man-jailed-for-14-months-for-giving-girlfriend-genital-herpes For fuck’s sake. I’m really supposed to be grinding on with the dissertation so this will necessarily be brief. * Herpes can be dormant for ten years or more; Golding may not have been the perp. * If it was him, he still didn’t intentionally give it to her. * It’s...

Layla's story: jailed after reporting a sexual... →

In 2009, Layla Ibrahim told police she had been the victim of a savage sexual assault. So why did she end up in jail? One thing that would have stopped Layla from going to prison is if she had given in to the police’s attempts to persuade her to withdraw her account of the attack. But Layla writes that she always felt confident that, as the victim, she would eventually be believed and was...

"We Want Cake, Too" →

Really brilliant opinion piece from Jennifer Finney Boylan in the New York Times. … Since [New York passed its marriage equality law in June], gay men and lesbians have been lining up from Fire Island to Niagara Falls in order to tie the knot. As this wave of progress ripples through the country, though, one group of people has been prominently left behind. In conversations with...

Having my dissertation due in 3.5 weeks is really...

As my workload increased over the last few months, blogging quality reduced; it became, as many will have observed, mostly just links and swearing. Now that things are really critical work-wise, i’m totally procrastinating… which means lots more from me for you to read! Swings and roundabouts, i guess. I should probably get on with this dissertation, though. Also, please nominate me...

Pregnancy reduction

The New York Times ran an article yesterday about “pregnancy reduction”—The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy—whereby pregnancies with multiple foetuses are reduced to… fewer foetuses. Octuplets to triplets. Quintuplets to twins. And, increasingly (according to the article), twins to single foetuses. The justification for eliminating some fetuses in a multiple pregnancy was...

Gender and Heart Health: Medicine, why do you have...

(NB: every study i’ve found has been on “female” cis women; the etiology of these differences is unclear—so i’m not sure how these differences would apply to trans* folk on HRT and/or who’ve had reproductive organ removal, or how they would apply to intersex folk.) Smoking is more likely to give women heart disease than men, a study has found. Toxic...

Lady Gaga says women don't enjoy sex till their... →

Oh, well if Gaga says it it must be true(!) What the fuck? Piss off, lady—i’m fuckin’ here!

Famine refugees facing rape threat →

Why women are worth (less) →

…though motherhood and lower-paying careers are convenient excuses, they’re handily debunked by Ilene Lang, who’s with the women’s research group Catalyst. “From their very first job after getting their MBA degree, women made less money than men,” Lang told NPR . “On average, $4,600 less.”

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's Senior Adviser,... →

Fucking asshole. I’m annoyed that this slipped under my radar, as this news is actually… olds. About two weeks old. This douchebag Hilton chap has suggested, among several really fucking stupid ideas, to abolish maternity leave. Seriously. And also all consumer rights legislation. Link above is to a HuffPo article. You can also read some more about Hilton: Here at the Grauniad Here...

Life After 50: Women's Worst Fear After 50? It's... →

Spoiler: it’s not having enough money as they get older.

He throws like a girl (but only when he’s sad):... →

"Loneliness is something you get used to": Living... →

HER birth certificate says she is a woman. Her passport states she is female. And she has had the operation to ensure that physically she is no longer a man. But Gina Philbin, who calls herself cross gender, says she still suffers physical and verbal abuse from people who refuse to accept who she is. Really arresting account of life as a trans woman in Britain.

Forbes: Negotiation is a Skill and Neither Gender... →

Telegraph: "New rules on gender pay 'will threaten... →

Hey businesses, guess what? It doesn’t really matter, okay, if not being able to pay women less affects how much profit you make because, shocker, equality is more important than your pocket. You know, i’ll bet similar arguments were made when slavery was abolished.

Higher Gender Equality Means More Sex →

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(And if AskMen.com had blog awards i’d ask you to nominate me for them, too. No good just preaching to the choir, right?)

Probably the only thing i'm going to say about the...

(Because there are many people out there who are better informed, and this isn’t what this blog is for (although i do care)): I really wish protestors would refrain from arson. Smash windows, loot shit, whatever. But— a) People live above most of those burning shops. Lived. Their homes are ruined; their shit is gone. They could have died. People may already be dead. b) What the...

name-redacted-deactivated201304 asked: I went to a mixed school in Ireland and there was never any connection made between wanking and being a lesbian. Now I think of it, I don't believe we had any lesbian rumours at, based on any kind of evidence. The convent school and technical college in the town did though.

The GF, who went to school in Canada, actually reports the opposite, it was only the slutty girls who...