Babying Bristol
Published May 28, 2009
Bristol, Levi, Sarah, Todd, Tripp, Trig — and what parents really want.
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Decent Exposure?
Published May 1, 2009
First the Keystone Komstocks started protecting teens from themselves by arresting them on child porn charges for “sexting.”
Now a Massachusetts legislator would criminalize the photographing of people over 60 and those with disabilities. Such adults would be statutorily unable to consent.
Sex crimes law is like a black hole: Once reason falls in, it can never re-emerge.
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Are lots of teens really ‘sexting’?
Published March 26, 2009
Remember “wilding” — the homicidal hellraising that poor kids of color were alleged to be doing in Central Park? It turned out to be an invention of some journalist or cop — a name for racist anxieties about invasions by the Other into a perceived redoubt of “civilized” (read: white) New York City. “Sexting” may [...]
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Kids, Sex, and the State
Published March 19, 2009
The San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair was thrilling: dogs, bicycles, Yiddish, situationists, Wobblies, fat old naked guy activists, Celtic anarcho-syndicalist rap music, vegan pizza, DIY everything. And lotsa speakers, including me. You can hear my talk, given Saturday March 14, here. It was recorded by Indybay.org, a “radical news site where every reader can also [...]