Hoochie, being affiliated with a university, from time to time likes to dip into the waters of scholarship to see what the wonks and academic types are getting up to. Today, we take a look at the latest issue of the journal Children’s Literature in Education, wherein we find this interesting title in the table of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Recommended reading: “Bad Feminist”
From our neighbors at Harvard Book Store (a store wholly unaffiliated with ‘that school across the river’) come this book recommendation from the store staff, ideal for feminist readers and for feminist books-as-gifts-buyers: Bad Feminist essays by Roxane Gay Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication Date: 2014-08-05 ISBN 9780062282712 List Price $15.99 Harvard Book Store price: $12.79 Description: … Continue reading
Let’s talk about dry sex in Africa (and about exotification
Wendy Syfret has a piece over at Vice titled “‘Dry Sex’ Is the African Sexual Health Issue No One’s Talking About.” “Dry sex“, Syfret writes, is a disturbing genital trend gaining ground in some African countries. It has apparently been a thing for some time (see, inter alia, “The practice and prevalence of dry sex … Continue reading
