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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: For Trans Patients, Healthcare Is Still Woefully Inadequate

by Bitch HQ
June 24, 2019 at 6:00am

“Going to the doctor sucks if you’re trans.”
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Moving the Needle: Mason Deaver on Creating One of YA’s First Nonbinary Protagonists

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
June 21, 2019 at 3:21pm

In YA, nonbinary protagonists are rare. Mason Deaver seeks to change that with their debut, I Wish You All the Best.
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Spasms of Truth: “Sex Education” Disrupts Pop Culture’s Silence around Painful Sex

by Noa Fleischacker
June 21, 2019 at 12:31pm

Sex Education opens the door for women living with vaginismus and other conditions to have honest conversations about their symptoms.
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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Someplace Else: A Guide to Responsible Summer Travel

by Bani Amor
June 21, 2019 at 12:03pm

Too often, tourists engage in gross practices and act a mess. Here’s what to avoid.
Nine Black women in various colors of dresses stand in front of Elmina slave castle on their trip to Ghana

Ready for Takeoff: Mapping the Black Travel Renaissance

by Veronica Hilbring
June 21, 2019 at 11:55am

Black travel groups are making travel more accessible and affordable.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Women’s Sex Toy Company Sues NYC Subway for Sexism

by Bitch HQ
June 21, 2019 at 6:00am

NYC’s subway cars regularly display ads related to men’s sexual health.
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Popaganda: Body Positive Beach Times

by Sarah Mirk
June 20, 2019 at 9:00am

The beach is supposed to be a place of relaxation. But, as we all know far too well, it’s also a place of high anxiety. Nothin’ puts body positive feelings to the test quite like slipping into what’s essentially colorful underwear and parading around in the midday sun in front of a bunch of strangers. This episode of Popaganda, “Beach Bodies,” takes listeners from...
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: AOC Was Right to Compare Border Camps to Concentration Camps

by Bitch HQ
June 20, 2019 at 6:00am

“Concentration-camp historians agree that using the general term to describe conditions at the border is accurate.”
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Ill Advised: Chronic Pain, “Beautiful Suffering,” and the Endurance of Victorian Stoicism

by Colleen Morrissey
June 19, 2019 at 4:17pm

Our culture’s attitudes and beliefs about pain haven’t shifted much with respect to gender.
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Love, Factually: “Always Be My Maybe” Updates the Rom-Com Formula with Cultural Specificity and Heart

by Aline Dolinh
June 19, 2019 at 1:47pm

The best rom-coms make their predictability feel not like a weakness, but like a giddily essential pleasure.

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