Category: SexualPolitics
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Kickstart Slut: A Documentary Film
The grassroots-funded documentary film, Slut, all began with middle school diary entries shared on Tumblr. I had teachers not only laugh when I was called a “slut” or a “whore”, but also had teachers join in. I also had a teacher hit on me because of my “title.” The worst experience was when a kid…
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Sexual Health & Relationship Education via Life Stories
A riart Grrrl, a folklorist and a condom monologuer get together to discuss the phenomenon of real-life storytelling in the context of sex education The three authors of this post come from different trajectories in the field of sex and sexuality but we share the belief that real-life storytelling should play an intrinsic role in…
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Why Condoms Get a Bad Wrap: Renewing emphasis on pleasure
Is it correct to suggest that condom-bashing is more common than condom-loving? From personal experience, when I speak with people about safer sex the following is often used to describe condoms: “It keeps my partner and me from getting close”, “It disrupts intimacy”; “…It’s unnatural”, “…a mood killer”, “I can’t feel anything with a condom on”,…
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Have a Merry Masturbation!
What better way to summon the season of twitterpating than by celebrating May Masturbation Month! Here are some fun facts about Annual– now International- Month of Masturbation and some great links to help you…participate. 1) The true poster child of Masturbation Month is former US Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. Following a speech at the 1994…
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The “Condom Girl”: Condom Policing is Gender Policing
“What do you do when you’re detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary “evidence” is held against you, and you’re treated like a moral deviant? And what if its 2013, you’re a woman, and the “evidence” is that you possess condoms?”- Clay Nikiforuk In March 2013, Clay Nikiforuk was detained at…
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Advice: Dealing with condom rejection
This post is for anyone who has a partner that always moans (in a bad way) about using a condom; for anyone who has experienced condom hating; and for anyone who refuses to wear a condom. This is to equip you with reasoning and responses to possible excuses for not using condoms. A fact we…
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Walking While Trans: police profiling and abuse of LGBTQ communities of color in Queens
LGBTQ 003. In this entry of our LGBTQ-Logue Initiative, posting mementos of sexual justice issues, we share narratives from participants in a study about the gender-based violence that police regularly commit against LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people. In response to the rise of complaints about hate violence and police abuse against LGBTQ people in Jackson…
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Video Storytelling about ‘Coming Out’ by a Mormon
LGBTQ-Logue 002. “So, are you dating anyone.” “Nope.” I shamelessly replied. “Well that’s not good.” my bishop said. “I don’t want to date anyone.” Then my bishop looked at me, “Do you experience feelings of same-gender attraction?” What?! All I said is I don’t want to date anyone, how does he…? ‘This is real. Oh gosh,…
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Remembering Stonewall: Excerpts from the First Documentary Made on the Riots
LGBTQ-Logue 001. “The archives of lesbian culture…created four years after Stonewall, owes, at least for my part, it’s creation to that night and the courage that found its voice in the streets. That night, in some very deep way, we finally found our place in history. Not as a dirty joke, not as a doctor’s…
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Where to Go for Safer Sex: Our Resource Recommendations
We are celebrating Valentine’s Day 2013 by acknowledging some of the most lavish, smart, and intriguing safer sex resources out there and giving them our thank yous for their hard work. For safer sex guidelines we applaud and recommend you check out the following… Planned Parenthood: A non-profit health organization that offers reproductive health care…