Brian Ammons has some very serious concerns over the outing of evangelical Jonathan Merritt, and asserts that if boycotts are tricky business, then the outing of another person should be considered even more so.
About Brian Ammons
Brian Ammons is an educator, spiritual director, author, and ordained Baptist minister. He lives and works in the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and justice. He is a former faculty member in Duke University's Program in Education, and currently serves as Chaplain and Director of Spiritual Life at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC.
Sandusky, Scapegoats, and Systemic Violence
July 18, 2012 By 2 Comments
I’ve avoided writing about Sandusky. In fact, until very recently I’ve avoided reading or talking about Sandusky, too. As a survivor of a serial sex abuser, I know myself well enough to know that engaging the media coverage of the case with moderation and restraint would be a challenge for me. More often than not, [...]
The Nerd Emergence: A History(ish)
July 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
Just as Hall asks, “Is a ‘queer’ history even possible?” (2003, p.21), I wonder about the possibility of writing a history of the nerd. Just as there has been sexual activity between same-sexed bodies in other places and times, there have also been those who preferred to spend their time in libraries and laboratories in [...]
Nerd Aesthetics
July 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
If, as Butler (1990) suggests, gender is the repetition of acts and gestures, performances that may be somewhat malleable but cannot be escaped (as one can not step outside of the discursive process), then “camp” might be understood as the queering of those performances through the intentional exaggeration and remix of those acts and gestures. [...]
Queer the Nerd
July 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Somewhat ironically, my first introduction to queer theories came in the form of biblical criticism (how nerdy is that?). Derived from literary theories, these queer approaches to scriptural analysis consist of reading strategies that either disrupt heteronormative assumptions, privilege queer identifications, or both. In Queering Christ (2002), Goss suggests three primary strategies for reading scripture [...]
Queering the Nerd/Nerding the Queer
July 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What can queer theories offer in examining nerd masculinities?
Failing Shop: Musings on Nerd Masculinity, or Anthony Hall was the man
July 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“See we had this assignment, to make this ceramic elephant, and um–and we had eight weeks to do it and we’re s’posed ta, and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the trunk the light was s’posed to go on. My light didn’t go on, I got a F on it.”
“You would never know from sex ed classes that people actually enjoy sex.”
This Comment of the Day was by wellokaythen on the post How We Can Improve Sex Ed for Boys?