What Is “Survivor Privilege”? I Don’t Know And Neither Does George Will
[Content note: sexual assault] At the Daily Dot, I have an analysis of George Will’s useless Washington Post column and many (but not all) of the ways in which it is wrong: George Will’s...
View ArticleHow Rolling Stone Failed Rape Survivors
[Content note: sexual assault] My new Daily Dot piece discusses the Rolling Stone mess. Last month’s groundbreaking Rolling Stone piece about sexual assault at the University of Virginia recently came...
View ArticleOn Mishearing “Get Consent” as “Don’t Have Sex”
[Content note: sexual assault] This fall, the new affirmative consent law in California, which requires all universities that receive state funding to adopt definitions of consent that translate...
View ArticlePhysical Space, Mental Accessibility
This is a short post in which I’m going to make a request: if you organize events, run meetings, teach classes, or do anything else that requires getting a bunch of people to sit in the same room...
View ArticleTrigger Warnings, Microaggressions, and the War Against “Over-Sensitivity”
My newest piece at the Daily Dot examines the backlash against “over-sensitivity” online. A group of Columbia University students have ignited the latest battle in the online war over trigger warnings...
View ArticleA List of Ways I Have Used Trigger Warnings
[Content note: mentions of sexual assault] These are some ways I have mentally responded to encountering a trigger warning/content note on the internet: [ignores, continues reading] “Oh, yikes, this is...
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Secular Students Week Interview!
Hey folks! As you may know, I was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Secular Student Alliance. I’ve been involved with the SSA for almost three years; it was the first secular conference...
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Secular Students Week Guest Post: Benjamin Karpf
Here’s my last Secular Students Week post! Student activist Benjamin Karpf talks about the importance of building community for secular people–something that we sometimes overlook in favor of the...
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