Jennifer Mathieu

June 19, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

DEVOTED: Religion, Feminism, and the Case for Compassion , a #FSYALit guest post by author Corey Ann Haydu

Earlier this year I read and was deeply moved by a book called Making Pretty. I was so moved by the author that I wrote her an email explaining to her what my life was like growing up and how I knew exactly what the two main characters in her book were thinking and feeling, […]

May 8, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Slut Shaming Hurts Guys, Too – a guest post by author Jennifer Mathieu (A Part of the #SVYALit Project)

As part of the #SVYALit Project we’ve talked a lot about slut-shaming and how it hurts girls. And it does. But the truth is, it hurts boys, too. When I met up recently with the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE Jennifer Mathieu, she started talking to me about it and what she had to […]

February 20, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Slut Shaming, part 1 – a discussion by author Christa Desir (Part of the SVYALit Project)

Slut-shaming is defined as: the process in which women are attacked for their transgression of accepted codes of sexual conduct making any person feel guilty or inferior for certain sexual behaviors or desires that deviate from the traditional or orthodox gender expectations Picture from the movie The Breakfast Club So a few weeks ago, a […]