On Change and Accountability
This was written for and originally published at Role/Reboot.
Do we actually believe that people can change? If so, how do we want them to show us they’ve changed? Is absolution possible? Who decides the answers to these questions?
Orgasms Aren’t My Favorite Part of Sex
My latest piece at the girl-power site Off Our Chests: A month or two ago, I published a piece called A Unified Theory of Orgasm. In that piece, I talked about my own history, and how long I took to learn how to orgasm. Basically, learning how to orgasm took a long time and a [...]
...read moreNo Touching: Boundary-Setting and the Holidays
This is a very good article about allowing kids to set their own physical boundaries, and using the holiday season as a chance to work on that practice: As a mother, I can relate to the embarrassment that a parent might feel when a child doesn’t want to give a big hug to Grandma when [...]
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Snakes on a Plane
A reader asks Slate, what’s the appropriate response when someone is watching porn on a plane?
...read moreIt’s fun for a girl or a boy: Conspicuous consumption edition
Anyone engaged in consumerist big-box shopping this season (which ideally would be avoided, although particularly when dealing with Tinkerbell-obsessed four-year-olds it can be hard to find an acceptable Etsy substitute. Merry frigging Mithras) has probably walked into a toy store, looked at the pink section full of “girl stuff” and the blue section full of [...]
...read moreCan commodification save reproductive justice?
This is a guest post by Echo Zen.
“It sounds ludicrous. Let’s try it.”
“Good. I’m down for anything involving karate and contraception.”*
As Feministe readers may have noticed lately, my crew of summer film students and I have been making short films on kung fu condoms over the past few months.
...read moreFall Into the [Reverse Gender] Gap
This is a guest post by Jessica Mack.
One of the concepts that I hope fades out as we enter 2012 – along with flash mobs and marshmallow vodka – is the “reverse gender gap.” Somehow, in the American obsession with doom and gloom, small but important gains for women have become a reason to worry. They’ve become a reason to claim that the gender gap is not just closing, but – worse – it’s reversing.
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Do your thing.
...read moreSex, Drugs, Theology, Men & Feminism: Interview with Hugo Schwyzer
Role/Reboot regular contributor Hugo Schwyzer has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until he got clean and sober and turned his life around, beginning in 1998.
...read moreJerry Sandusky showered with boys to teach them “basic hygiene skills.”
Of course he did. And if that explanation isn’t offensive enough, the boys needed to be taught hygiene because they were poor. And poor people are dirty:
...read moreDie-In tonight; Tomorrow is International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers
I’ve got some links to some event locations, great links and 101 materials about sex workers’ rights – feel free to link to your own posts about sex work, the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers, and relevant events in the comments.
...read moreInterview with a sex-positive feminist
Recently, I received an email from a student who is writing a paper about sex-positive feminism. He asked a bunch of questions; while I was reviewing those questions, I decided to just go ahead and post them plus my answers publicly (with the student’s consent, of course).
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