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Keep Your Socks On, I'm Cumming: Sex Positivity, Female Orgasm, Scientific Bias
In an article in the College Hill Independent from 2002, Ariana Green writes, “TEACHERS of abstinence-only sex ed have successfully followed Bush’s lead: they talk without ever saying anything of value. It’s an especially sad truth, right up there with the state of the economy and the administration’s hunger for war. Bush proposed to increase [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under A Hunger So Wide and Deep, Becky Thompson, Betty Dodson, Brown University, Carol Queen, Cunt, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Dick and Jane, Exhibitionism for the Shy, Federation of Feminist Women's Health Clinics, Female Sexuality, Feminist Frontiers, Global Sex Survey, Hollywood, Inga Muscio, Italy, Lara Kaplan, Masters and Johnson, Museum of Sex, Natalie Angier, Padua, Pornography, Realdo Colombo, Ruth J. Simmons, STIs, Sex for One, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist A, Time, UC Berkeley, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Women and Gender Studies, abortion, abstinence, abstinence-only, abuse, activist, anatomy, anxiety, arousal, brain, cervix, clitoris, contraception, cultural bias, cumming, education, embarrassment, empowerment, erotica, fear, female anatomy, female orgasm, feminism, gender bias, genitalia, genitals, government spending, herbalist, heterosexual, higher education, horror movies, intercourse, masturbation, men, midwife, neuroscience, orgasm, porn star, positron emission topography, right-handed, science, science and gender, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex research, sex work, sex workers, sexpert, sexual pleasure, sexually transmitted infections, sin, speculum, stripper, trance, violence against women.
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Don’t Be Scared, It’s Only Street Art: Mujeres Creando
Interview with Mujeres Creando, by Katharine Ainger, from the New Internationalist, mixed with some feminist graffiti I found on the marvelous interweb. Overnight, in beautiful handwriting, words appear on the walls of La Paz, the high-altitude capital of Bolivia. They speak truths Bolivian women won’t say out loud. Deconstructing machismo, anti-gay prejudice and neoliberalism, Bolivian [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under Billboard vandalism, Bolivia, Deudora, La Paz, Mujeres Creando, New Internationalist, abortion, anarcho-feminists, barrios, birth control, debt, feminism, graffiti, hispanic women, homophobia, las pintadas, little red ridinghood, machismo, microcredit, motherhood, reproductive rights, street art, violence against women, women's rights.
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Senator Sam Brownback says Screw Rape Victims
On Tuesday, May 15th, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas – a Republican presidential candidate who opposes, among other things, porn and gay marriage, was in a televised presidential debate. ” Tell me,” Wendell Goler asked Senator Sam Brownback during Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, “Since you’ve opposed abortion in every instance except to save the life [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2007 under Fox News, Freakonomics, Iraq War, Kansas, Misogyny, Roe vs. Wade, Sam Brownback, Senator, U.S. Senate, abortion, casualties, civilian casualties, contraception, contraceptives, crime, economics, gay marriage, incest, legalized abortion, men, military casualties, porn, president bush, presidential candidate, pro life, rape, republican, sanctity of life, sexual assault, violence against women.
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Supreme Court Bans Partial Birth Abortion
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday, April 18th, that after a 5-4 decision, it will uphold the 2003 ruling of a lower court to ban partial- birth abortion. According to this article, the decision is “the first in which the court has upheld a ban on a specific method of abortion, means that doctors who perform [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Justice Kennedy, Misogyny, Supreme Court, abortion, human dignity, partial birth abortion, president bush, samuel a. alito, sanctity of life.
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