What is this blog? Or, more importantly, why is this blog?

sex drugs and intellectual freedom aims to collect, highlight, and bring attention to current freedom of expression issues in American media. Not that this is revolutionary or anything. Siva does it. ALA-OIF does it. We are, however, a good deal younger than the folks producing the content on those sites. While we hope to make these issues accessible to people of all ages, we are deliberately trying to engage other 20-somethings like ourselves.

Addressing these issues in media will, we suspect, often come to mean addressing “New Media” (digital resources, the internet, Web 2.0) but certainly will not exclude traditional forms like books and newspapers. We will also aim to consistently tie these issues into the worlds of music and art and education, because what happens in the legal (and often tedious) world of 1st Amendment rights impacts these disciplines, too. And, well, they’re usually just plain cooler to write about. Besides, you never know where freedom of expression issues might pop up. Bridge, anyone?

Oh, and for sure we won’t leave out the sex or the drugs either. Rock and roll may be dead, but we - as dynamic, expressive individual human beings - certainly are not.