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Letter to the editor

(11/04/16 2:10pm)

“Forty Acres,” she told me she had written in on her ballot, when I asked Destiny who she picked for president. Destiny’s answer was deeply moving to me, even if I wish she had voted for Hillary. Destiny, a young African American voter from Durham, understands southern history and the long struggle for freedom in our state better than most people I know, a history that been filled with broken promises for our state’s poorest residents.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/11/161104-letter-to-the-editor-peck

Reorienting the discussion about sex work

(03/17/14 6:19am)

We are Duke faculty members who engage in research and teaching related to sex, sexuality and sex work. The recent revelations regarding a Duke student’s decision to work in pornography have unleashed distressing attacks on her person, and we want to join with other members of the Duke community who have supported her against this onslaught of hate. These attacks include vicious name-calling, threats of sexual violence and outing her to family and friends. Many attackers hide under the cloak of anonymity, amplified by social media. While she is the current target, the toxic and derogatory words used to describe her are sadly familiar and part of a long history of shaming women involved in sex work. Our obligation as Duke faculty is to help shift the focus from moral judgment to an examination of the larger social issues at stake.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/03/reorienting-discussion-about-sex-work

I am waiting

(11/01/10 8:26am)

“I am waiting for the American Eagle to... straighten up and fly right.... I am awaiting, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.” So wrote my favorite Beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in 1958, expressing his generation’s yearning for an authentic politics, on the eve of one of the most dramatic student movements in U.S. history.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2010/11/i-am-waiting