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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, June 3, 6-7pm Pacific time\n\nKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom 
 event:\n\nJoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch\nWhat We Don't Talk About: Sex, 
 Authority and the Mess of Life\n\nWhat if we took sex out of the box marked 
 "special," the contents of which are either the worst or best thing a 
 person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of human 
 life in general? In this extraordinary book - in defiance of the 
 long-standing media obsessions that turn every sexual topic into a morality 
 tale of monsters and victims, shame and virtue-journalist JoAnn Wypijewski 
 does exactly that in this searing indictment of modern sexual 
 politics.\n\nFrom the criminalization of HIV to the frenzy over "pedophile 
 priests," from unexamined assumptions about the murder of Matthew Shepard 
 to the accusations made against Woody Allen, from Brett Kavanaugh to Abu 
 Ghraib, Wypijewski takes some of the most famous stories of recent decades 
 and turns them inside out. The result is a searing indictment of modern 
 sexual politics. She exposes the myriad ways moral panic and a punitive 
 culture are intertwined, considering along the way the nature of pleasure, 
 censorship, self-deception, memory and much more. What emerges is a picture 
 of a culture in which crude morality plays acted out in the media have 
 contributed to an imprisoning embrace of the repressive power of the state. 
 Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, Wypijewski insists, and 
 so must sexual politics, if it is to make any sense at all.\n\nJoAnn 
 Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she 
 was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the Nation, 
 Harper's,  CounterPunch, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, and 
 other publications. \n\nKris Welch is a veteran, very popular KPFA on-air 
 host, as well as a devoted mother and grandmother.\n\nSuggested Donation 
 $5-$20.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/11/18842454.php
SUMMARY:JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch:What We Don't Talk About: Sex, Authority
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/11/18842454.php
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