I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that.” — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image