Culture
Remembering the Black Women Killed By Police
We're outraged by the killing of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot six times by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy: Erotic Comics
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Jess Fink explains why she loves to read and draw sexy comics.... Read more »
Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta is white and Native, bipolar, and lost her virginity to rape. Her first book, My Body is a Book of Rules, is a modern coming-of-age memoir that reaches into these tangles of the body and mind through American pop... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: Writing a Sex List
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Terry Blas explains how a simple sheet of paper can help make... Read more »
The NFL's Domestic Violence Problem
It’s difficult to watch the grainy video of Janay Palmer without getting a knot in the pit of your stomach. A viral video of a football player lugging his unconscious fiancé around like a garbage bag was seen by millions of Americans,... Read more »
Popaganda Episode: Myth of the Strong Black Woman
Writer Tamara Winfrey Harris penned the article Precious Mettle: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman for the... Read more »
It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Absent Dialogue around Fat Women’s Sexuality
It’s simply assumed that fat women are not worthy of having anybody “woo” us or walk down the street holding our hands.
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Let's Get Digital: The prejudices—and the potential—of gaming and erotic roleplaying
Illustrations by Amy Martin
Ask any World of Warcraft player about “Goldshire” and you’ll likely hear more than a little embarrassed giggling. The small town just outside the human capital of Stormwind is a known hotbed of ERP—shorthand for erotic roleplaying—derided... Read more »
The Madame Butterfly Effect: Tracing the History of a Fetish
The perception of sexualized Asian women was informed by a long tradition of Western male writing.
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