Thursday, May 23, 2019

Book Review: Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People Edited by Alice Wong

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  I have just finished reading the anthology Resistance and Hope: Essays By Disabled People . The book's other subtitle (which I love) i...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, "The Act," and the Problematic Assumption of Caregiver Benevolence

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   Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story is an object lesson in all of the ways that ageism, ableism, sexism, and the oppressive assumption of ca...
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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...