May 2010
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Debunking Double X: Slate's Mischaracterization of...
Last week, Slate published an article that alleges the Rethinking Virginity conference was aimed at encouraging young women to “reconsider abstinence”. This is a misrepresentation of the event, which was aimed at challenging the heteronormative definitions of virginity and critiquing mainstream discourse about sexual abstinence. Though Slate alleges that the speakers...
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Post-Conference Press & Recaps
If you weren’t able to make it to Rethinking Virginity, check out the #rethinkingvirginity hashtag on Twitter to relive the conference through live comments and photos from the event.
You can also read about the conference in the following outlets:
Harvard Virginity Conference Pops Its Cherry, The Boston Phoenix
Slut Panel Postmortem: Shame, Shame, Go Away, Feministing
Educators...
April 2010
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Advance Press For Rethinking Virginity
Chloe Angyal, one of Monday’s speakers, blogged about looking forward to hearing fellow Rethinking Virginity panelists, Sady Doyle (Tiger Beatdown, Feministe.us) and Professor Marie Griffith (Harvard Divinity School).
Amanda Hess, who pens the column “The Sexist” for The Washington City Paper, had a hilarious chat with Doyle about some of the ways in which valuing virginity...
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Join us on May 3rd, 2010
RETHINKING VIRGINITY Harvard University
Is there a sex-positive way to teach abstinence? What are the historical and cultural origins of the virginity ideal? How does a queer person lose their virginity? Does anyone even know what virginity really is? From debunking myths to defying norms, the Rethinking Virginity Conference will feature scholars and experts speaking about gender, sexuality,...
Pre-Conference Meet & Greet
CAN’T MAKE THE CONFERENCE? Join us the night before in Harvard Square for a “tweet-up” and meet the speakers!
Daedalus Restaurant (Roof Deck) Sunday, May 2nd from 8 to 10pm
45 1/2 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138-5053 (617) 349-0071