Archive for September, 2010
On Transparency in Activism: Why Being Anti-Craigslist is Anti-Justice
Defend Sex Ed! The Chronicle calls for revocation of student rights, cowardly ignores academics’ objections
Remember earlier this month, when economics professor Margaret Brooks’ willfully ignorant slam piece on college Sex Week events all but demanded that universities strip student rights to the point of pre-1960′s era legal doctrine? Her anti-youth, anti-sex, anti-education op-ed first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education made headlines all over the Internet, but it [...]
I was mugged. Will you please help me out?
Dear readers, About an hour ago, while walking home from Noisebridge, I was mugged. Two men who seemed to be in their mid-twenties, one dark-skinned gentleman and one lighter-skinned, wearing black hoodies and jeans attacked me at the corner of Fillmore and Waller streets. The dark-skinned man looped his arm around my throat roughly and [...]
Margaret Brooks’ Sex Week “Concern” highlights the intersection of sex-negativity and adultism
Sex-negativity often goes hand-in-hand with adultism, a form of ageism that discriminates against young people considered “not adults.” Adultism is so embedded in the structure of society that many institutions, including schools, routinely marginalize young people by silencing their voices, disallowing their participation in decision-making activities, or actively excluding their presence at public assemblies. Nowhere [...]
