When I was a young, I remember reading about the difference between cooperative and coercive exchanges. It was a mind-blowing thought, that all interactions could be lumped into one of two categories. And that the implications of the nature of those interactions could be so incredibly powerful and meaningful. While libertarianism certainly encompasses many thoughts … [Read more…]
There’s an article making the rounds entitled Sites of Violence: Why Our Notions of “Sex Positive” Feminism Are in Need of an Overhaul. It uses the Cliteracy project as a jumping-off point to discuss the culturally relevant “sex-positive” feminism that I ascribe to and write about from time to time. Kelly Rose Pflug-Back argues that … [Read more…]
Taking on the whole Amanda-Palmer-responds-to-Sinead-O’Connor-writing-to-Miley-Cyrus-about-twerking brouhaha, Lisa Wade, a sociology professor at Occidental College makes some really spot-on, well-articulated, interesting, and not-often-enough-expressed points. I’ll just quote the part I really like: Women do have more choices – many, many more choices – than recent generations of women. They are now free to vote in elections, … [Read more…]
Today I attended a few sessions of the Woodhull Institute’s 2013 Sexual Freedom Summit. As I was commiserating with Tim this morning, we’ve only ever been to internet marketing, Christian and libertarian conferences. This is my first-ever sex-related public event. Met some awesome people, holla Nina Hartley, Taylor, Stephanie and Stacey! Yes, I met Nina … [Read more…]
About a week ago, I sat on a panel of four women at the Heritage Foundation to discuss the rise of the female breadwinner. The point of the panel was to articulate the right-wing take on the Pew study showing that 40% of households have a female breadwinner. There were three conservatives and I was … [Read more…]
We’ve got another awesome Sex and the State guest post! If you would like to submit a guest post, please fill out my contact form with an brief outline of what you want to write about. Introduction Abortion is one of those issues that seems to divide libertarians right down the middle—about half … [Read more…]
Fusionism is a hot-topic in libertarian and conservative circles. It represents the alliance between conservatives and libertarians to advocate for economic freedom. But fusionism requires libertarians to align themselves with a faction of the population that refuses to tolerate freedom in the personal sphere. By aligning ourselves with conservatives, libertarians lose credibility among more socially progressive young people. And … [Read more…]