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Revisiting the problem with protecting the innocent

June 23, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Last winter I quoted, inspired by the sexual undertone in Balthus’s paintings of children at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an article about the negative consequences of equating childhood with innocence. In “Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power, and the Struggle Against Sex Abuse,” Jenny Kitzinger criticizes people’s tendency to describe childhood as an innocent time and space for at least two reasons: [1] If defiling the pure and deflowering the virgin is supposed to be erotic, then focusing […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Balthus, child prostitution, childhood, children, immigrant children, innocence, sexuality

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Migration of the Innocents

June 9, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

A series of images of young children in a crowded US Border Patrol facility in Texas has been circulating the web since they leaked into conservative news and opinion website Breibart.com last week. The images show hundreds of immigrants—most of them Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan children and minors—shoved in windowless rooms as they await for instructions. In an article featured in WLRN (We Learn) titled “How Central American Kids Gave Us A Reality Check,” Miami-based journalist Tim Padget reports on this issue by mocking […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, immigrant children, immigration, politics

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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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