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Slut Shaming

July 23, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A Couple of #SVYALit Links of Note on the Topic of Slut Shaming

In case you missed it, I wrote a piece for School Library Journal on what librarians can do to help create a culture that fights against slut shaming. Some of the ideas include creating a code of conduct for your library and making sure to include sex positive YA lit titles in your collections that […]

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 […]

April 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

True Confessions of a Former Slut Shamer – A Slut Shelf Giveaway

It’s true, I was one. A slut shamer that is. I judged you based on what you were wearing, calling you a slut in my head. You see, I fell victim to the lie that a girl, a woman, is only worth her sexuality. And it’s an insidious lie. So very deceitful because you and […]

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Slut Shaming, part 2 – A Discussion of Something Like Normal by its author, Trish Doller (Part of the SVYALit Project)

February 20, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Not long after Something Like Normal came out—and I was still reading reviews—I happened across one in which the reviewer complained about the slut shaming and how I’d portrayed every girl in the book except Harper as a slut. I was taken aback because, well… Let me back up.  When I first started thinking about […]

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

February 20, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

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 […]

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