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Love No Limit: Masturbation Opens Women up to Power, Play, and Pleasure

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by Josie Pickens
May 28, 2020 at 11:02am
Pleasure is a human right.
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Love No Limit: Exploring Sexual Fantasy during the Pandemic

by Josie Pickens
May 19, 2020 at 9:17am
We only have shame about our sexual thoughts or desires because we don’t openly discuss how natural and human they are. Read more »
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Doulas Gone Digital: How to Self-Advocate If You’re Forced to Labor without Support

by Lauren Rowello
May 11, 2020 at 3:46pm
A lack of support can feel scary for new parents and is especially unsettling for those who are marginalized. Read more »
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Dinner Party for One: Cooking for Yourself in the Age of Social Distancing

by Cynthia Greenlee
May 1, 2020 at 11:47am
Cookbooks are great, but they often aren’t taking into account that some of us are cooking for one. Read more »
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Love No Limit: Can a Relationship Survive a Pandemic?

by Josie Pickens
April 21, 2020 at 11:00am
This pandemic will give us the space and opportunity to dig deep into the love, compassion, and care we have for our lovers and ourselves. Read more »
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Blank Slate: Spiritual Emptiness Is Clearing Our Closets

by Aditi Natasha Kini
April 1, 2020 at 9:00am
While minimalism may masquerade as a reaction to capitalism, current practices and values have turned it into the rebellious offspring of capitalism. Read more »
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Love No Limit Is a Space for Radical, Expansive Conversations about Love

by Josie Pickens
March 17, 2020 at 10:43am
It will be a safe space where we can discover, together, how we can find, foster, and harbor the most radical kinds of joy within our hearts, minds, and bodies. Read more »
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All Victims Can Be Perpetrators

by Nylah Burton
February 14, 2020 at 1:37pm
Our society has not yet accepted that women can inflict horrible wounds and still be horribly wounded themselves. Read more »
Two people, one white person with short dark hair and glasses, and one Black person with short curly brown hair, sit together in a bed. The white person holds a phone with a dog in their lap. The Black person has a book open and is smiling.

Galentine’s Day Is a Loving Space for Queer People

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 13, 2020 at 12:26pm
Showing how much you love your friends seems even more important for queer people. Read more »
Thinx Co-founder Miki Agrawal, a woman wearing a large hat and a scarf around her neck, sits at a table with flowers on it.

Patriarchy Proof: Thinx and the Perils of Emphasizing Female Founders

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
January 16, 2020 at 2:46pm
Is it actually good that we inherently trust, and buy from, “female founded” brands?  Read more »
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Bitch in a Box: For the Young Environmentalists

by aagreen84
December 20, 2019 at 11:37am
Breaking up with Amazon is the greatest gift. Read more »

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Target Market: Black Women with Guns: Frontier Feminists or Insurrectionists?

Pam Grier plays Coffy, a Black woman with an afro who's sitting on the floor and pointing a gun at an intruder, in the movie Coffy
by Joshunda Sanders
Spring 2012 • Frontier
The guns Black women carry are symbols of their abilities to be both frontierwomen and nurturing warrior mothers birthing a new generation of revolutionaries. Read more »