sex pill for women: big pharma trying to profit from another made-up illness?

thanks again alternet! below, an excerpt from sex pill for women article: Even though Boynton declined, Boehringer-Ingelheim invited her to write a paper for the British Journal of Sexual Medicine. “They had clear instructions about what they wanted me to say and how this would set the scene that HSDD was a prevalent and distressing [...]

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“we are not your weapons

–we are women” : an article by amanda kijera. The United Nations, western women’s organizations and the Haitian government must immediately provide women in Haiti with the funding that they need to build domestic violence and rape crisis centers. Stop dividing Black families by distributing solely to women, which only exaggerates male resentment and frustration [...]

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you got the swag?

Swagger Like Us: Should Women Be More Like Men or Not? For decades, women have been told just to get ahead in an unjust system — but should they be amplifying their aggression to mimic successful men?

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On all that plastic shit you throw away every day

So I have these causes that I talk about. Veganism… Anti-racism… Feminism… Fat Positivism… Sex Positivism… Environmentalism… And you know there’s always this tipping point in my mind. Someone or something gets me more or less climbing on board with the cause, then there’s this ultimate point that flings me completely on deck. Like there’s [...]

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Representations of Sex/uality

Or, alternatively titled: “Making the Brown Sex Week 2010 Poster” (This is a cross-post from the SHEEC blog/my blog) My goals were that the poster: Wouldn’t imply a certain relationship status Wouldn’t be objectifying and just like any other ad on TV Wouldn’t be heteronormative (and ideally not homonormative, either, which is…not easy to do–most [...]

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Penetrator, not the penetratee, no?

My friend showed me this article. If you practice penetrative sex, are you usually the penetrator? If so, would you be okay with being penetrated? If not, then maybe that means that you think of penetration as degrading, when you are on the receiving end. Which means that you should stop penetrating the people you [...]

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Define: kyriarchy

I would like to alert everyone to this Interesting post on “Kyriarchy”

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Emma Goldman strikes again

[Woman] can give suffrage or the ballot no new quality, nor can she receive anything from it that will enhance her own quality. Her development, her freedom, her independence must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right of anyone [...]

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Being a Woman: The Male Gaze and Saying No

First of all, hey everyone! I’m a new addition to the blog. Aida, from Puerto Rico, rising junior at Brown, found this blog through Irene. Hopefully I’ll be contributing steadily. Anyway–I also wanted to let y’all know that I added two websites to the blogroll: Genderfork and Sociological Images. Now, for my first contribution–cross-posted from [...]

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Penis Graffiti

Remember in high school when people were constantly drawing penises everywhere.  I always chalked this up to immaturity/silliness.  But I was talking to orkinson the other day and she thinks that it is a manifestation of patriarchy, and even a form of terrorism, not that different from, say, drawing swastikas everywhere.  Although the people I [...]

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