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Topic Started: Mar 12 2014, 01:11 PM (359 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/16673/

FEMINIST STUDIES PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING TEENAGE PROLIFE DEMONSTRATOR
by JENNIFER KABBANY - MARCH 12, 2014


SANTA BARBARA – A department of feminist studies professor has been accused of going berserk after coming across a campus prolife demonstration that used extremely graphic displays, leading a small mob of students to chant “tear down the sign” before grabbing one of the signs, storming off with it, then allegedly engaging in an altercation with a 16-year-old prolife protestor who had followed the educator to retrieve it.

Much of the scuffle was recorded on a smartphone by the 16-year-old, Thrin Short. The yet-to-be-released video is now in the custody of Santa Barbara law enforcement officials, who are investigating the March 4 incident.

The professor at the heart of the controversy is Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor whose area of emphasis is black cultural studies, pornography and sex work, according to her faculty webpage. She could not be reached for comment Tuesday by The College Fix.

The confrontation took place at the coastal, public university’s “free speech” area, a heavily traversed part of the quad.

The roughly 3-feet by 5-feet displays included images of aborted fetuses, as well as diagrams detailing the abortion process and other “educational” information, according to Kristina Garza, a spokeswoman for 16-year-old Thrin. Garza heads up campus outreach for the nonprofit, Riverside-based Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust – a group that had trained the Short sisters and other students on how to conduct campus antiabortion events.

“This is probably the most extreme reaction we have seen in a while,” Garza said Tuesday in an interview with The College Fix, adding most of the time upset students just name call or steal pamphlets. “We want this prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

According to Garza, when Miller-Young came across the prolife demonstration, the professor started yelling at the protestors, saying abortion is a woman’s right. Then things got uglier, as the scholar allegedly enticed about 15 students to begin shouting “tear down the sign, tear down the sign” at the group, which consisted of 12 young women and one young man, Garza said. Most of the prolife demonstrators attend Thomas Aquinas College, a private, Catholic institution nearby, and none are enrolled at UCSB, she said.

As the prolife demonstrators tried to engage students one-on-one in conversation during a lull in the chanting, that’s when Miller-Young allegedly grabbed one of their signs and stormed off, followed by two UCSB students, Garza said, adding Thrin followed the threesome with her older sister, Joan, in tow and calling 9-1-1.

Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust has detailed the students’ version of events on their website. It states in part what they claim happened next:

The parade weaved through two buildings and entered an elevator in the third. Thrin attempted to get on the elevator with them, but Young blocked the doorway. Thrin stuck her foot in the door, but Young pushed it out with her foot. Tenaciously, Thrin put it back. This happened several times as Thrin pleaded with the students to not get involved. “The police are on their way,” she told them …

Suddenly Young reached out and pushed 16 year old Thrin. “Don’t touch me!” Thrin cried, startled. Young’s long fingernails scratched Thrin’s arm. Young pushed Thrin twice more and each time Thrin kept the door from closing with her arm. Finally, Young got out of the elevator, and tried to pull Thrin away from the elevator door. Thrin held onto the elevator with her other hand, the one holding the camera. Realizing that students were trying to take the camera out of her hand, Thrin let go of the elevator.

The elevator doors closed. Professor Young let go of Thrin, leaving several scratches on her arms, and got on another elevator. Then the police arrived. The police did not seem overly concerned about the incident until they saw the video and realized how violent the professor had been. Police identified the assailant and found the remains of the sign – it had been destroyed. UC Santa Barbara police are completing their report …


When asked why the young prolife protestors didn’t just write the sign off when the professor walked off with it, Garza said they had every right to get back their property, and that it was the professor who acted inappropriately. She added it’s shocking a women’s studies professor would act in such a way to a young girl.

“This is a very encouraging story of a young person displaying an incredible amount of tact and poise and bravery, not only to remain in the right frame of mind to know what to do in the situation like this, but when the situation turned violent she was able to think clearly, and videotape her actions,” Garza said. “She knew that if she didn’t videotape and follow them … they might never have seen their property again.”

According to the Santa Barbara Independent, which first reported the story, Miller-Young declined to comment and has retained an attorney, who stated on her client’s behalf that “it is a pending matter, so it is not appropriate to comment at this time. … We will let the process take its course. I am confident that it will become clear that the events did not unfold as the anti-choice demonstrators say they did.”

The Santa Barbara Independent also attempted numerous times to obtain a statement from local law enforcement, but they did not return the newspaper’s repeated request for comment.

Garza said her group is eager to publish the video, and will post updates on their website as they become available.

Joan Short, 21, also published her version of events.

“Although we were interrupted, we reached a lot of students,” she stated. “Many of them will not be able to think complacently about abortion ever again. … With babies dying every day, we know that we have to use even our spare time to do something to end abortion. We will continue to bring the truth about abortion to UCSB.”

Several UCSB students posted comments underneath Joan Short’s essay that they are sickened by the visits. An op-ed written by a UCSB student and published two days after the incident in the student newspaper The Daily Nexus stated that ”these groups are threatening the well-being of students, yet nothing is being done. We should not feel unsafe on our own campus. These acts of shaming and violence are beyond unacceptable, and in no case have these groups warned the student body before showing such images on campus.”

Garza said the campus is public property, the protestors were in the free-speech zone, and by law they are allowed to demonstrate there.


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Quasimodo

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http://law.wustl.edu/centeris/pages.aspx?id=7848

Black Sexual Economies Project

The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital creates and supports several interdisciplinary projects organized around topical themes. The Black Sexual Economies Project is one such project. This project seeks to craft new paradigms for thinking about race, gender, and sexuality in tandem. Most studies of race and sexuality have emphasized injury, trauma, and representation. This project emphasizes other, under-attended factors in the analysis of black sexual cultures, including pleasure, regulation, labor, consumption, and production. It will take an interdisciplinary approach that combines a focus on law and legal regulation with analyses of identity politics; networks of sexual exchange; social policy; and literature, media, and cultural performances.

Consisting of a working group of faculty from diverse universities and led by Project Director/Co-Convener Professor Adrienne Davis of Washington University Law, and Co-Convener Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, the first session was held May 2010. The goal of the project is to stimulate cross-disciplinary dialogue that will influence the development of theory and research in black sexuality studies in ways that would not have occurred absent the opportunity of this interdisciplinary forum.

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From Hip-Hop video culture, to the Duke Lacrosse rape case, to the public outcry about black men on the so called “down low,” black sexualities have been constructed as a site of sexual panics and pathologies in mainstream popular discourse in the U.S. Moreover, legal, economic, medical-scientific, and social discourses and institutions also categorize, deploy, and police black sexualities, constructing them as a “threat” to normative bourgeois sexuality. Despite the rich histories of black subjects’ attempts to define their own sexual identities, desires, and communities, we know very little about black sexual cultures and economies. We contend that black sexualities cannot be understood outside of their background institutions, cultural practices, and networks of production, consumption, distribution, and exchange. In addition, the Project Research Scholars explicitly theorize black sexual subjects’ efforts to represent and recuperate their bodies, desires, and communities from the colonizing projects of the West.

The Black Sexual Economies Project interrogates the dominant institutions and discourses of sexuality that have colonized black bodies in the West. Through analyses of literary and media texts, cultural performances, circuits of sexual labor, and markets for production and consumption, our work attempts to theorize the generation and articulation of black sexuality in the U.S. Grappling with the continuing forces of racialized slavery, systemic violence, poverty and segregation, criminalization and incarceration, HIV/AIDS and sexual health policy, corporate media, popular culture, and new technologies in the circulation of black sexual cultures, our research objective is to expand the intersectional study of sexuality and race in America.
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Quasimodo

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http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/academic/mireille-miller-young

Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores race, gender and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States. Her manuscript, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work and Pornography (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2014) examines African American women’s representation and labor in pornographic media.

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Dr. Miller-Young has published research in Meridians: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism and Sexualities, and in book collections such as Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture, Blackness and Sexualities, and C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader. She is an editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013), with Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, and Tristan Taormino.

In addition, she has written essays for The New York Times, Feminist Theory, Colorlines, Re-Public.com, Cut-Up.com,and $pread, a sex worker magazine. Miller-Young is also working on a documentary film on black women in the porn industry, and a visual archive project called The Black Erotic Archive. Miller-Young has been interviewed for numerous books, articles, radio programs, and documentaries, including NPR’s “News and Notes” with Farai Chideya.
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MikeZPU

What the heck does the Duke Lacrosse "Rape" case have to do with
"Black Sexual Economies," whatever the hell that is?

And most people refer to it as the Duke Lacrosse Case, not the
Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. People know what one is referring
to without using the word "rape," especially since it was all a lie.

This wacko professor will get away with this. The most that will
happen is that she will be asked to apologize BUT I guarantee you
that she will refuse to apologize AND I further guarantee you that
nothing will happen to her for refusing to apologize.
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Quasimodo

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And most people refer to it as the Duke Lacrosse Case, not the
Duke Lacrosse Rape Case





Indeed. We don't refer to the "Scottsboro Rape Case"; nor include that
case in a study of the hard lives of poor white southern women.


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MikeZPU

I can't believe they actually charged her!

Maybe that smart-ass professor won't walk around with such a swagger.

By the way, she claimed that she's pregnant and that she became upset
when she saw the graphic images of abortion, BUT watch the video --
she is a smug azz-hat. You can see her smiling while she and her little
suck-ups carry away the stolen sign. She thinks the whole thing is funny.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/21/university-california-santa-barbara-feminist-professor-charged-in-confrontation/

University of California at Santa Barbara Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young was charged with one misdemeanor count each of theft, battery and vandalism in the March 4 incident, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced Friday. The charges came days after 16-year-old Thrin Short and her parents met with prosecutors.
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60slib

When I read this story my first thoughts were about the Gang of 88. So many disturbing similarities. And reading the police report (the officer did a really good job) even more so. It's all about "her" rights and their "hate" speech.
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MikeZPU

60slib
Mar 21 2014, 07:29 PM
When I read this story my first thoughts were about the Gang of 88. So many disturbing similarities. And reading the police report (the officer did a really good job) even more so. It's all about "her" rights and their "hate" speech.
So, the umbrella of "hate speech" includes any discussion advancing the pro-life cause?

She also called the two girls terrorists: "I may be a thief, but you're a terrorist."

Megyn Kelly reported that the professor actually destroyed the pro-life signs.

I was actually surprised that she destroyed the signs.

But they are so afraid of the truth leaking out -- so afraid of what might happen
if the students that they brainwash actually saw what a real aborted fetus looks like -
what might happen.

They want to couch it in some beautiful God-given right to an abortion, that
should be celebrated with flowers as a beautiful right that brave women fought for.

For her to destroy the signs -- and even the outrageous hysterical rant that she want
into when she first saw the signs -- that's fear -- fear over what might happen if the
truth were exposed to the light of day.
Edited by MikeZPU, Mar 21 2014, 10:59 PM.
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