SexText is a blog about sex and sexuality – any and all of their dimensions. Sex talk is everywhere; it saturates the public sphere. From sexual eruptions in mainstream politics, to its contested cultural representations in film and literature, to its flashy gossipy side in television and print tabloids. From Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner's famed infidelities, to the rise of the grassroots Slutwalk, to the ongoing challenges to Canada's polygamy and sex work laws, sex is everywhere.
Sexuality is what we teach and study at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies: sexuality in all its guises and disguises, ranging from how we frame sexual differences to how we understand some sexual practices as normal and others as perverse. SexText is an attempt to bring some of what we study and teach out into the public sphere. We want to promote discussion and debate on a range of sexual issues of the day. Who is getting upset about sex and why? How does sex and sexuality come into the public domain as a contested issue, from sex work to youth sexuality, queer identity to polygamy?
Got any good ideas? How about some irreverent ones? Send them our way. We want to blog about them.
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Thursday, 12 April 2012 |
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SDS Instructor Nick Matte was interviewed by CTV about Jenna Talackova, the trans woman recently ousted and then reinstated as a candidate for Miss Universe in Canada. When you arrive at the site, scroll down to the fourth story in the box on the right.
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Written by Paul Weadick
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Monday, 13 February 2012 |
The Magnetic Fields’ new video “Andrew in Drag” was released this past week to moderate fanfare; the song has been called a “return to form” for using synthesizers where the band hasn’t since 1999’s 69 Love Songs. To me, the return to form seems to be the explicitness of the sexuality, the sheer gayness of it all, the sense of sex and romance as playful and tragic all at once - which has also been downplayed or absent since 69 Love Songs.
The narrative of “Andrew in Drag” is of (surprise!) a drag performance which throws all stable sexual and gender concepts - for both performer and voyeur - out the window. Pronouns are thrown out dizzyingly often, and what first appears as a consistent narrator is questionable on repeat listens. Is he a fag or a ladies’ man or a mama’s boy? Is ‘he’ even a ‘he’? Rather than the drag show challenging gender categories in and of itself, it throws the narrator’s self-identity out the window: “I’ve always been a ladies’ man and I don’t have to brag / but I become a mama’s boy for Andrew in drag.” What ‘he’ is left with is his attraction - to what, to whom exactly we cannot be sure as his “tail” wags “like a little wiener dog for Andrew in drag.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 February 2012 )
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Written by David Townsend
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Monday, 06 February 2012 |
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David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English and served as the first director of the Sexual Diversity Studies Program. While on research leave from the University, he's pursuing a Certificate of Sexuality and Religion at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. He keeps a blog on gay and bisexual men's spirituality at www.anchorholder.blogspot.com. Longer ago than I want to admit, I published in Toronto’s radical gay journal The Body Politic an article profiling gay men and lesbians who chose to claim their spiritual homes in mainstream Christian churches. In 1983, it wasn’t easy to make sense of such a choice to a readership of progressive queers.
The Moral Majority was still a fresh and very scary force in American politics, with well-publicized branch plants among Canadian evangelicals. Voices for sexual diversity in the major denominations were few. The United Church of Canada was still five years from its courageous (and divisive) decision to accept out gays and lesbians as candidates for ordination. A few classics of gay spirituality and theology had already appeared, including John McNeill’s The Church and the Homosexual (1976) and John Fortunato’s Embracing the Exile: Healing Journeys of Gay and Lesbian Christians (1982).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 February 2012 )
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Friday, 27 January 2012 |
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Read Scott Rayter's thoughts on actress Cynthia Nixon's comments on bisexuality on the Toronto Star's website.
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 |
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Check out the article in this morning's Globe & Mail in which Prof. Brenda Cossman offers her insight regarding the Supreme Court on common-law economic rights.
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
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Please watch this clip of Prof. Cossman explaining last week's controversy over the validity of non-resident marriages on CTV. Please note, video starts automatically.
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Written by Brenda Cossman
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 |
No, Canada has not just unilaterally nullified thousands of American same sex marriages. Here is what happened. A lesbian couple got married in Canada in 2005, separated in 2009 and are now living in the UK and Florida. They want a divorce in Canada. But, the Divorce Act has a 1 year residency requirement. For a court to have jurisdiction to grant a divorce, one of the parties has to have been living in Canada for a year. So, they challenged the constitutionality of that residency requirement.
Lawyers for the federal government did what lawyers for the federal government do: they are defending the constitutionality of the Divorce Act. They are saying that it is perfectly legitimate to have a 1 year residence requirement. But, then, they said a bit more. The lawyers also argued that a Canadian court would have no jurisdiction to grant a divorce because the couple did not have a valid marriage.
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 November 2011 )
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 November 2011 )
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 November 2011 )
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Written by Wendy Koslow
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 November 2011 )
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