Friday, March 1, 2019

Disabililty Day of Mourning 2019 and the Presumption of Caregiver Benevolence

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   Every March 1st, the disability community mourns those of us disabled people whose lives have been lost too soon, particularly those w...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Book Review: Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex

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  In the course of doing research for my own book project on youth rights issues, I have been reading voraciously about a wide variety of y...
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Saturday, February 16, 2019

A Conference Presentation and a Distillation of Why I Am an Unapologetic Radical Youth Liberationist

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Jackson Howard Wagner, me, and Alexander R. Cohen. Great friends and comrades.    Back in November, I had the privilege of attending the...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Denying Youth The Right To Public Space: A Growing Problem in American Society

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   Recently a story has been making the rounds in the news media regarding an eight-year-old young woman whose mother had the police call...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Book Review: Roger N. Lancaster's "Sex Panic and the Punitive State"

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   As many of you know, I have been doing a lot of research into moral panics of the 1970s and 1980s era in order to explain how previous te...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Book Review: Richard Beck's "We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s"

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   As many of those who follow my work may know, I am currently in the process of writing a book on youth rights issues. When one endeavors ...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Remembering and Celebrating the Work of Richard Farson, Radical Youth Liberationist and Author of Birthrights: A Bill of Rights for Children

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   June 13, 2018 marked the one year anniversary of the death of the psychologist and author Richard Farson, the radical youth liberationist...