I think identity as an umbrella captures all of these complicated topics. But still, the self is so complicated that we can carry all of these different parts of ourselves around and they somehow make sense Aya Aziz: How Do So Many People Fit Into A Single Nobody? In this interview for Guernica Magazine, Sara …
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Women usually exist in men’s songs as passive objects, which is to not exist at all. With Prince, they were addressed with both awe and empathy. He wrote about women as real, powerful, complicated, sensitive, and sexual beings that he could learn from, and who enriched his life. These sentiments weren’t hidden away in the …
The Effect of Teenager’s Sexual Desire Missing from Discourse
A passage in Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships, a socio-psychological study of at-risk, poor, working-class teenage girls, struck me yesterday: “Michelle Fine points out that girls’ sexual desire is frequently missing from discourse about adolescent sexuality and sex education is schools. As Deborah Tolman observes, when sexual desire is reinterpreted as girls’ …
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JESSICA HOFFMAN: Why did you choose a multimedia format to write about love? MASHA TUPITSYN: With Love Dog something happened to me: I met someone, it rattled me to the core, and I felt called upon to write about it in some roundabout, uncategorizable way that would still examine all the other social, political, and …
You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, …
In the end, I’m not troubled by the language of losing, as long as we understand that some losses are to be welcomed as well as grieved. When we lose a fear of heights by learning to skydive, we overcome an obstacle. That’s a positive loss. When we lose our fear of speaking up, and …
My take-away from the Penn State tragedy is one of wonder and optimism. I marvel that the university’s trustees were willing to fire an octogenarian living legend for the grave lapse of not having done more to protect children and to do so by phone. I expected far more voices to be raised in defense …
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability. Write this on your bathroom mirror. The Ethical Slut (via petitefeministe)
Healthy male sexuality doesn’t need mystery to continue to thrive. Grown-ups don’t need to be kept from the normal human realities of things like childbirth, menstruation, or the inevitable explosive consequences of food poisoning in order to remain attracted to their partners. Men ought to be angry at those (like Ablow) who insist that our …
Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“… when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing. Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via sexisbeautiful) I guess …
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