Eros Daily Musings and Digressions

Links for 2009-03-26 [del.icio.us]

• VDAY.org A Global movement to end violence against women and girls
• Prosecutor sued over semi-nude teen photos case | Technology | Reuters
  The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Pennsylvania prosecutor on Wednesday over his threats to charge three teenage girls with child pornography for allowing themselves to be photographed partly clothed with cell phone cameras. The case involves the growing practice among teens of "sexting," a play on the term texting, in which nude or semi-nude photos are sent on cell phones or posted on the Internet.
• Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices - jotsheet
• Are lots of teens really ’sexting’? | Judith Levine | What’s New
  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 be the latest invented scary youth trend — a name for adult hysteria about the alchemy of teen sex and technology. The Internet and other wireless means of mysterious kid-to-kid communication, are the 21st-century version of the corrupting Street, which I talked about in Harmful to Minors.
• Rope Springs Eternal: Little Face
  There are times, however, it's not quite working, when I lose track of what my friend D might call the transformation, when I fret a bit over what I'm doing, worry about her humanity and wonder about my own, my civility, the barbarism of my instincts and their disquieting manifestations. At such moments it has for years been a comfort to me when someone like Conor pads into the scene to rework my perspective, to check in on his first love, his mistress, and to affirm to all present that God is in his heaven and everything is as it should be.
• IMsL Part 2 - Being a Cis-Gendered Male at a Women’s Event. | A dirty dirty dirty Pandora’s Box of Hell.)
  So how does one navigate all of these potential pitfalls and help contribute to a more successful event for yourself and for others?

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