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“His eyes are blue, yours are brown”
An Indigenous mother sharing a poem with her daughter on TikTok gives viewers a sense of empowerment and emotion.Decode and Demystify the Latest Gen Z Online Slang Terms with the new In The Know glossary.Tia Wood is a singer and…
Sexual positivity negatively affects the current narrative – Marquette Wire
This story is part of an Opinions series focusing on women's issues.
Since first wave From feminism, dating back to the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 debating equal rights for women, feminism has sought to end the oppression of women…
New Barcelona center teaches Spanish men to explore their masculinity | Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
It is hard work to maintain the macho image of the Spanish. But help is at hand thanks to Barcelona's new Center for Plural Masculinities, which offers men the chance to shake off the macho straitjacket."This is not a place where men come…
Seen but not heard: on not listening to the Chvrches and guided by the voices
Guided by Voices / Photo: Terri NellesI have pointed out many times, and as recently as May in these pages, that one of the oldest clichés in music criticism is that writing about music is like dancing about…
Dr Ruth Says Sex Can Always Be A Joy When You’re Older
Our bodies change with age and we can't do a lot of the things we did when we were young. But that doesn't mean people can't enjoy sex in their 60s, 60s and beyond.So says Dr Ruth Westheimer, whose radio show Talk sexually aired…
Why Senator Josh Hawley’s Comments on Men and Video Games Are Wrong
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Interviews former Deputy Attorney General Rod ... Rosenstein during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the FBI's investigation into the "Crossfire…
‘Tomb Raider’ at 25 – Ian Livingstone opens up about Lara Croft’s birth
Ithe reputation of a Livingstone precedes it. Before even entering the video game industry, he co-founded Games Workshop, while his adventure Combat fantasy game books were a big influence on RPG developers - you'll even find a copy of…
Pauline Bart, 91, sociologist who mapped women’s challenges, dies
At this point, Dr Bart had been studying the subject for 10 years and had noted the role of pornography in the incidences of coercive sex. She also presented the research of Diana Russell, the feminist activist and sociologist who has…
Gender critics are the female auxiliaries of neo-fascists
By Brynn Tannehill | FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia - LGBTQ + leaders, the public, media and Democratic officials need to consider what the self-proclaimed âGender Criticalâ movement is (that is, TERF, or…
The “Most Obscure Famous Artist” Was a Photographer of Lesbian Sexuality / LGBTQ Nation
During her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne said, âI am one of the more obscure famous artists. "
Popular? Yes. Obscure? Certainly not in art circles or the queer art world where she started…
Corinne known for her photos of lesbian sex
During her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne once said: "I am one of the most obscure famous artists."Popular? Yes. Obscure? Certainly not in art circles or the queer art world, where she started doing…
Transgender Pages from Russian Teen Health Book
Russian publishing house removed section on transgender people from Russian-language edition of health guide for teenage girls to avoid breaking Russian law, media reported Sunday.
The Belaya Vorona publishing house said…
Impossible mission? Dismantling the rape culture in Australia
Violence against women is still too often seen as inevitable, a vision that implies the impossibility of change and reinforces contemporary gender inequality. To dismantle this rape culture, we must consider the strategies of fear,…
Sex, Hope and Activism: Meet “Uganda’s Crudest Woman”
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Her sexually explicit protests have been compared to pornography, but Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi says sex is the most effective - and entertaining - way to get people out of their apathy."I learned early on…
Sex, Hope and Activism: Meet ‘Uganda’s Crudest Woman’
Her sexually explicit protests have been compared to pornography, but Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi says sex is the most effective - and entertaining - way to get people out of their apathy."I learned early on that there are…
I translated into English the only Gothic novel by the Marquis de Sade
In 1813, a year before his death, the Marquis de Sade wrote his last published book, La marquise de Ganges. The novel is based on an actual 17th-century crime that Sade - notorious aristocrat, libertine, and pornographer - probably…
“There were many warning signs before this tragedy”
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Next month will mark the third anniversary of the 2018 yoga studio's murderous shoot in Tallahassee, Fla.A recent study published by FSU uses this incident as a case study on the psychology behind hate crimes…
The politicization of children’s books
Like most boys their age, my sons much prefer playing video games rather than reading for fun, which they see as an oxymoron. I always buy books from them, but every year it gets harder and harder to find titles that!-->!-->…
A closer look at his fan base after his conviction
After years of accusations and allegations, disgraced singer Robert Kelly faces 10 years in life. In a courtroom in New York City, jurors found Kelly guilty of nine counts. The fallen star faces the judge with a melancholy, somewhat…
Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds – Locus Online
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM Press 978-1629639321, $ 59.95, 224pp, hc) October 2021.
Melbourne-based writer / editor duo Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre…
Sarah Everard’s death prompts men to join groups trying to end male violence | Voluntary…
The murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa could mark a turning point in men's accountability for male violence against women and girls, experts have said.Male-led groups working to end violence against women have seen renewed interest…
“There is a leftist glaze tinged with pink around feminism”: artist duo Quinlan and Hastings | Art
Ft over the past five years, artist duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings have focused on gay bars. A couple as well as collaborators, they created happy gay bars one night only as performances, compiled a vast archive of moving images…
Stigmatize Social Media | Samuel D. James
For a few hours on October 4, the developed world experienced a temporary increase in emotional health and psychological peace. The reason? Facebook crashed. A major error in the social networking company's servers plunged its app,…
Why do so many young women hate trailblazing feminists like me? asks JULIE BINDEL
For anyone not familiar with the different waves of 21st century feminism, this will undoubtedly come as a shock. But in my opinion, what currently passes for modern feminism is doing women more harm than good.Many young women today do…
Julie Bindel’s Feminism for Women journal – equality is not enough | Company books
IIt's been over 40 years since 17-year-old Julie Bindel turned out to be a lesbian and signed up as a feminist, the two sons who have run like a double helix in her personal and professional life. Since the late 1970s, she has been a…
Does Sexual Positivity Exploit Women? ⋆ 4State News MO AR KS OK
In her new book "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century," philosopher Amia Srinivasan, who is quickly emerging as one of the foremost feminist thinkers in the English-speaking world, describes the teaching of…
Amia Srinivasan’s “Right to Sex” asks the essential questions that needed to be…
In a 2018 article titled The correctness of anger, Amia Srinivasan, currently the first non-white woman and the youngest holder of the Chichele Chair in Social and Political Theory at All Soul's College, Oxford, quotes Audre…
On stage, “Designing Women” removes the shoulder pads, not its politics
The show was not entirely progressive. Its only character of color, Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor), had a subordinate role in the business, and queer characters were rare. But he gave his characters divergent attitudes, insisting that…
Conservatives were right about sex, admits New York Times columnist
Social conservatives are always losers, but never quite defeated. In politics and in cultural wars, one has the impression of having carried out a long rearguard action, the counter-attacks covering only a general retreat. But we must…
Reviews | Establishing freedom: contested, changing, conflicting definitions
News that the University of Texas at Austin is courting donors for a Liberty Institute is a reminder of the danger of ideology undermining university life. Provost Sharon Wood, responding to professors' concerns, said that the aim of such…
English teacher sacked from Eton sentenced after ‘manifestly anti-Semitic’ video posted
An English teacher sacked by Eton for a controversial gender lecture was convicted yesterday for sharing a "blatantly anti-Semitic" video.Will Knowland lost his £ 44,000-a-year school job for refusing to remove 'sexist' speech…
Women of yesterday and today: From the horse’s mouth
By Freddy Macha
So last week we got together with the traveling guys talking about a future genre robot? Law?Madness.Every time I am in the presence of men, young and old, similar themes are repeated. Again and again. It's been…
Reviews | Why is sexual feminism out of fashion
Some second-wave feminists had treated heterosexual sex - as well as distantly perverse queer sex - as inherently degrading, if not counter-revolutionary, which naturally distanced many women from feminism. (In a Village Voice essay in…
Underwear outdoors – Basement Medicine
Jae Basiliere is the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at NVU-Johnson. Their job is to help professors develop their teaching skills and work to improve student support for students. When they can find free time, they often…
Can US Courts Control Themselves in the Case of Misconduct at Work?
By Cara Bayles (September 22, 2021, 12:02 p.m. EDT) - Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski resigned in 2017 after more than a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment in the workplace. (AP Photo / J. David Ake)The #MeToo movement…
Criticism: “The Right to Sex” probes the politics of desirability
These examples do not refute Srinivasan's claim as much as they helped me explain why she might have chosen Rodgers as a case study. Where did our rich vocabulary and critical frameworks of the politics of desire disappear at that time?…
Book review | Ain’t IA Woman: black women and feminism
Gloria Jean Watkins is a social activist who became one of the first authors to compile the experience of black women through slavery and political emancipation in America. She wrote under the pseudonym bell hooks, a name borrowed from…
Review: Amia Srinivasan’s feminist book, “The Right to Sex”
On the bookshelf
The right to sex
By Amia SrinivasanFSG: 304 pages, $ 28If you purchase linked books from our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support…
11 new non-fiction works to read this season
In 2018, the Arlee Warriors, a high school boys' basketball team on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, were in the midst of a buzzing championship as his town reeled from a cluster of suicides. Streep, who previously featured the…
NXIVM sex sect defendant Allison Mack checks in for three-year stay at Dublin Women’s…
After other famous inmates in recent years, the former Small city Actress Allison Mack will serve her prison sentence in East Bay following her conviction in the chilling sex cult case NXIVM.As viewers of the HBO 2020 documentary series…
Sexual sect accused Allison Mack shows up at Dublin prison
Allison Mack, the television actor convicted of coercing women into sex slaves in sectarian group NXIVM, visited the Federal Corrections Institute in Dublin early Monday.
As an inmate no. 90838-053, the "Smallville" star becomes the last…
Unpublished Books by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson was one of the most famous writers of the 20th century, fusing fiction and non-fiction in an innovative style called Gonzo. His work on the genre catapulted him to counterculture fame,…
A teacher in Exeter has been punished for sexual misconduct. The student says that never happened.
In its report, Holland & Knight raised a "systemic concern" with a "lack of an established and clear protocol for students, faculty and staff to formulate complaints and training for AEP administrators on how to address concerns about…
5 embarrassing truths every modern feminist faces today
Amia Srinivasan enjoyed her well-deserved moment in the sun. In 2018, the philosopher and author wrote an essay for the Book review in London, entitled 'Does anyone have the right to have sex? ' which resonated with readers young and old…
Is Noah Berlatsky canceled?
Twitter far-left warrior Noah Berlatsky has gained notoriety online for such blunt observations as "Why Ant-Man Should Be Black," an article that Vice, to his embarrassment, published. This forced clickbait - in other words, Berlatsky's…
“The class has abandoned the feminist image”: Amia Srinivasan on The Right to Sex
Photo by Tom Pilston
âSex is unlike anything else⦠There is nothing else so tied to politics and yet so…
It’s time to respect romance novels as a genre
By Atiritka Kumar September 1, 2021
Juana Garcia / The Cougar
As the world slowly moves towards a more inclusive society, it's time for romance novels to be seen as a worthy genre and given the respect and recognition they deserve.…
Feminism for Women: The True Path to Liberation by Julie Bindel – review | Company books
Afar from the sulphurous world of Twitter, feminist activist and journalist Julie Bindel is best known as the co-founder of Justice for Women, an organization which, since 1990, defends people convicted of murder after having suffered…
Amia Srinivasan’s new book unboxes sex, politics and discomfort
Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan has published one of the most controversial books of the year and could change our view of feminism
It's the start of the day in Oxford. Amia Srinivasan probably woke up early enough for our…
The right to sex – a woman’s power to choose
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âThe whole new way of thinking is about loss / In this it looks like all the old thinking. I remembered…
An invigorating controversy over the oppression of women: Vicky Allan returns to Something Out of…
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Review by Vicky Allan
Novelist Eimear McBride, whose fictional tale of Irish youth, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, won the Woman's Prize, made her first foray…
OnlyFans Pivot Leaves Fewer Options For Adult Content Creators – The Hollywood Reporter
Siri Dahl was on a hair-raising date on August 19 when she heard the news: OnlyFans, the platform she relies on 90% of her income on, is reportedly banning sexually explicit photos and videos from October.
But Dahl, a creator…
OnlyFans to ban adult material after pressure from payment processors | UK News
OnlyFans, the subscriber-only website synonymous with pornography, has announced that it will ban adult content from the site after pressure from its payment processors.
The company will continue to allow certain posts that contain…
Andrew Cuomo case proves #MeToo is not enough | Catholic National Register
COMMENT: The only way to free the workplace, the movie studio, the sports arena and even the Church from sexual misdeeds is to reject once and for all the toxic ideology of the sexual revolution.…
It’s been a #NoThankYou week for women – Susan Dalgety
Laurel Hubbard is the first transgender woman at the Olympics, but her appearance has not impressed, writes Susan Dalgety. (Photo: Scott Barbour / Getty Images)The first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics in a different…
I don’t know how to respond to what he just told me.
How to do it is Slate's sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It's anonymous!
Every Thursday evening, the crew answers a bonus question in the form of a chat.
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Transgender Hominin Rises Against State’s Favorite ‘Ammé’ – Groundviews
Photo courtesy of The Gay And Lesbian Review
A few months ago, the author had the misfortune of being introduced to a video from a YouTuber and apparently a "psychiatrist" by the name of Ama Dissanayake. Having never heard of her and…
Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” is a Great Song, OK Album
Final score: 7.2 / 10…
When the sh * t hit the fan: a 1970s reminder
Photo source: Ollie Atkins - Public domain
The United States has spent the past half a century holding its breath. The post-WW recovery stabilized in the early 1970s and since then the country has experienced the end of the "American…
She is Not Your Rehab: A Book That Is A Roadmap For The Hard Work Of Healing
Anissa Ljanta reviews the new book on abuse, masculinity and change from Christchurch barber Mataio (Matt) Brown and his wife Sarah Brown. I grew up in Samoa and South Auckland. A daughter of a long line of sensitive…
JK Rowling Strikes Back at Trans Activists After ‘Pipe Bomb’ Death Threat –…
Famous "Harry Potter" novelist JK Rowling hit back on Sunday after facing yet another death threat - this time from a transgender activist who wanted the author to "get a homemade bomb in his mailbox."
âTo…
Utah Film Center Damn These Heels 2021: No More Historic Wills Of Activism On Raw! Uncut! Video !,…
In addition to Cured, no straight lines: the rise of queer comics and PS Burn this letter exceptional testimonies of archival activism, three other documentaries Utah Film Center 18th annual Fuck those heels Gay Film…
Reclaiming feminism from the logic of the market
This essay is an excerpt from Women's rights: recovering a lost vision by Erika Bachiochi © 2021 University of Notre Dame Press, published today.When founded in the 19th century, America's first feminist movement worked hard to…
How women fought misogyny in the underground press
According to most accounts, the first generation of underground newspapers was very misogynist. Many of these articles began to appear between 1964 and 1967, just before Second Wave feminism took hold. Even though most of these…
A nunsploitation film guilty of pleasure from the director of “Basic Instinct”
Lest someone think Paul VerhoevenThe latest shocker was intended to be a serious look at sexuality in church service, with the film's promotional poster plastered around the cannes film festival - or "Benedetta"bowed in competition -…
Guggenheim’s “Romantic Songs” Confront the Irony of Feminist Art and Emotional…
In 1943, Hilla Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a "temple for the spirit" to house the Solomon R. Guggenheim art collection; this weekend, a feminist performance by artist Ragnar Kjartansson will transform the museum into a…
Critique of “The man who hated women”: the reign of the censor
In 1873, a new federal law prohibited the distribution and promotion by the United States Postal Service of "obscene, obscene or lascivious" material. The legislation covered not only dirty postcards and sex toys, but also…
Ask it – Pakistan
Last year a short clip by comedy trio Muriel She's Asking For It became the most watched BBC3 video on Facebook and Twitter, totaling 45 million views in just 10 days. It shows two British boys in a cafe as one of them puts a local…
Are countries keeping the promise of the Violence and Harassment Convention?
On this day of 2019, labor, feminist and human rights allies celebrated the adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the Violence and Harassment Convention (N ° 190). This historic international standard called…
Russian artist Yulia Tsvetkova, who faces jail for publishing feminist cartoons, goes on hunger…
Artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova faces criminal charges for posting pornography
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Yulia Tsvetkova, a…
Yulia Tsvetkova goes on hunger strike to demand public trial
Yulia Tsvetkova on an iPad on July 16, 2020. Ulf Mauder / photo alliance via Getty Images
In mid-April, it was reported that Yulia Tsvetkova, a Russian feminist artist, was on trial over charges that she distributed pornography.!-->…
We must talk about pornography
CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including sexual violence and assault, abuse and harassment, and the effects of that trauma on mental health.Break the silence was a bugle call of 20th century feminist…
Russia: Navalny supporter faces three years in prison for sharing Rammstein video
A Russian court will deliver its verdict tomorrow in the case against activist Andrei Borovikov, who faces three years in prison if convicted of "spreading pornography" for sharing a video by German rock band Rammstein.
Andrei…
Feminist activist in Russia faces prison sentence for “positive body” drawings · Global…
âMy body is not pornography! reads the protester's sign. "Is this an article 242?" Asks the policeman. Article 242 of the Russian Criminal Code criminalizes the creation and exchange of pornographic material. Image…
27-year-old artist faces trial in Russia after posting cartoonish drawings that promote tolerant…
Feminist artist and LGBTQ + activist Yulia Tsvetkova is on trial in Russia, charged with distributing pornography based on her work of a naked female body.
The 27-year-old, who was arrested in November 2019 and remained under…
Russian feminist artist brought to justice for distributing pornography; rights groups declare her…
Yulia Tsvetkova ran a children's theater and was a strong advocate for feminism and LGBT rights.…