Yearly Archives: 2009

Updates: Amazon removing queer, sexuality titles from front page search

More on Amazon’s ushering of queer & sexuality titles into a dirtier, ill-lit corner of their shelves: the LA Times blog asks why American Psycho remains indexed as any other book when Running with Scissors is buried, Edrants calls for a boycott, and Heather Corinna blogs at Amazon wondering why clearly marked explicit porn titles [...]

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Amazon removes sales rank from sexuality, queer titles

Rachel Kramer Bussel & Audacia Ray discovered this morning that Amazon no longer lists a sales rank for a number of their books. For a time today, Ray’s Naked on the Internet was displayed without cover photo or reviews. Heather Corinna notes that the feminist anthology on sexual assault, Yes Means Yes, has also been [...]

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#overshare

Maria Diaz has asked us to follow along with her SXSW panel, A History of Growing Up Online, right now as it goes down via #overshare on Twitter. (Quote: “We were the forerunners of blogs…“)

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Karen Rayne & Karen Kreps Let Teens Self-Savvy: An Interview on Sex Ed Online

Sex @ SXSW is in its own full-swing: Sexerati has landed, been conservative for no decent reason about giving out promotional buttons (ask me for one!), and has had a chance to even bump into some of these fine panelists. Here’s the last in this interview series, a two-for-one with the co-presenters of Sex Ed [...]

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Sexting Suicide? Don’t Do It.

Elizabeth Wood deftly shreds MSNBC for laying the blame for a teen woman’s suicide on “sexting”:
I’m furious about the way this young woman’s story is being reported. Jesse Logan killed herself last July not because of the “dangers of sexting” but because of the dangers of sex stigma and “slut shaming.” She had sent some [...]

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Rebecca Fox Will Not Just Be Quiet, Please: An Interview On Blogging as Bloodsport for Women

Rebecca Fox and Rachel Sklar are next in Sexerati’s Sex @ SXSWi series — for their panel, “Why Professional Blogging is Bloodsport for Women.” Rebecca is the Managing Editor at Mediabistro; Rachel was the Founding Editor at The Huffington Post’s Eat the Press, and is now with the media consulting firm Abrams Research.
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Keely Kolmes Soothes Geek Hearts: An Interview on Mental Health 2.0

More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]

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Judith Levine, on the teen sexting panic (that also wasn’t)

From her column at American Prospect, some smart cold water to throw on the the latest technological bogeyman, the mobile phone: “The sexual dangers to youth, online or off, may be less than we think. Yet adults routinely conflate friendly sex play with hurtful online behavior…[e.g.] the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund, which calls [...]

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danah boyd on the MySpace sex panic that isn’t

“The Attorneys General - mostly angry at me and other researchers - have spent considerable time trying to publicly reject the ISTTF report that was published last month,” writes danah boyd. That is, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s findings are being combated not with alternate findings, but with PR, like Connecticut State Attorney General [...]

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We Are Not Having Real Sex Anymore

Edouard Leve, SÉRIE PORNOGRAPHIE, SANS TITRE, 2002 (via meaghano)

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