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Category: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
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Sex Workers Unite! is about sex workers who became political organizers and cultural activists to fight against stigma. “Brazen hussies,” “crack ‘hos,” “American gigolos” and “screaming queens” dare to believe that they deserve respect and human rights.
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View image | gettyimages.com Update: As of June 1, Bruce Jenner has officially announced that she would like to be known as Caitlyn. We have updated this blog to reflect her name change and pronoun usage. Since coming out last month as a transwoman during her interview with Diane Sawyer on 20/20, former Olympian, track…
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Strategies of distancing and denial function to uphold fictions that reinforce a belief in one’s own virtuous self-image and good reputation. People cling tenaciously to the fictions that support them. Not everyone commits overt acts of violence, but many of us rationalize, minimize the impacts of, excuse, or deny violence when to do otherwise would…
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How Rafia Zakaria’s first book THE UPSTAIRS WIFE is giving voice to Pakistani women whose stories have gone unheard.
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In 1983, a chance encounter connected young anthropologist Ruth Behar to a Mexican street peddler named Esperanza Hernandez in ways that would resonate throughout the years, and would continue to live on after Esperanza’s death in 2014.
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For International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Melinda Chateauvert, author of SEX WORKERS UNITE, debunks the myth of the “Swedish Model” of prostitution and similar “end demand” laws that not only fail to protect sex workers, but actively put them in harm’s way.
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Reproductive rights advocate Dr. Carole Joffe reveals the hidden costs of TRAP laws and ASC regulations for abortion providers and their patients.
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Beacon Broadside recently spoke with Daisy Hernández about her new book A Cup of Water Under My Bed, her literary and cultural influences, and the process of finding herself, both within her immigrant community and within the new, queer life she created for herself.
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How telling her story, and hearing the stories of others, helped a young woman heal from sexual assault.
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Gender scholar and ‘Gaga Feminism’ author J. Jack Halberstam examines the cult of “triggering” and how a safe space mentality can sometimes do more harm than good.
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