Reading Time: 8 minutes I’m soon to join the ranks of the pandemic unemployed. Mostly I’m alternating between devastated and numb, but maybe I’ll have time for more writing and blogging this way?
Myth & Folklore
Exploring the intriguing, revealing world of myth and folklore from a secular perspective.
Posted inCulture, General, Myth & Folklore
Folklore, Pandemic, and You
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being a folklorist in a time of global pandemic is interesting, and our discipline’s insights aren’t as useless as one might think. Here, I go into some of what we bring to the (socially isolated) party.
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore
Should Folklorists Blog?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The answer, obviously, is yes on some level, because this folklorist is definitely blogging right now, but I want to dig in a bit deeper as to why we might want to blog, or why we might want to abstain, and whom this benefits.
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore, Sex & Gender
The #MeToo Take Two Panel at #AFSAM19 (Part 2 of 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Part of grappling with sexual assault from a folklorist’s perspective means taking into account how it impacts communities and their cultures, and wow are there some ethical considerations to be discussed.
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The #MeToo Take Two Panel at #AFSAM19 (Part 1 of 2)
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the highlights of the recent American Folklore Society meeting was a panel discussing events in #MeToo, what folklorists can specifically contribute to the discussion, and continuing problems with abuse/assault in our field. In what follows, I’ll summarize some of the highlights of the panel on #MeToo (labeled “Take Two” because we had an […]
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If Your Culture Treats Women Like Crap, Then Maybe Your Culture Is Crap
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bouncing between large- and small-scale evaluations of a culture can be complicated sometimes, but I think it gets less complicated when we reduce the issue to: does the culture under discussion dehumanize roughly half its population, y/n?
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Two Reasons for Men to Hate Women
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I’m thrilled that we’re finally having an extended conversation about violence against women on a larger cultural scale, I also want to talk about the reasons behind said violence, focusing on two major reasons for men to hate women.
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Jordan Peterson Is So Sexist I Don’t Need to Know Anything Else
Reading Time: 5 minutes I know we should be judging the idea and not the person who came up with it, but wow, Jordan Peterson’s misogyny is so immense I just can’t get beyond it to listen to any of his other stuff, even as someone interested in psychological takes on the Bible.
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My Writing Will Appear Soon at Wyrd & Wyse
Reading Time: 2 minutes Somehow in this crazy-busy semester I’ve kept up with creative writing, which is leading to a very cool publication credit at the witchy-leaning zine Wyrd & Wyse.
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Not Seeing God (In Time for the Holidays!)
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m really pleased to have an essay about the Bible as folklore in this book with contributors from all over the Patheos Nonreligious channel!