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False Choices: What Will It Take to Ignite a Feminist Healthcare Revolution?
Capitalism often tricks us into functioning from a place of scarcity, where longing for pleasure is the most we can aspire to. But what if we could tap into our desires in small ways every day?
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Popaganda: Let’s Talk about (Talking About) Sex
In the midst of the #MeToo movement, it’s clear that we’ve all still got a lot of work left to do to change the conversations we’re having around desire and sexuality.
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Needles and Spins: Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Is Dangerously Profitable
Recasting a social contract as an individual choice is at the crux of the movement’s menace.
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Model Sawyer Devuyst Kicks Sand on Myths About Beach Season
There’s nothing wrong with my body being a trans body.
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Spasms of Truth: “Sex Education” Disrupts Pop Culture’s Silence around Painful Sex
The best rom-coms make their predictability feel not like a weakness, but like a giddily essential pleasure.
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Popaganda: Body Positive Beach Times
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... Read more »
Ill Advised: Chronic Pain, “Beautiful Suffering,” and the Endurance of Victorian Stoicism
Our culture’s attitudes and beliefs about pain haven’t shifted much with respect to gender.
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Less Than Perfect: What I Left off of My College Admissions Applications
For all the warmth and safety I was provided at school, I was never completely honest with anyone about the full extent of the turmoil happening at home.
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Yes We Can: Gushing Over the Ability to Ejaculate
Instead of teaching women about their bodies and embracing female ejaculation, we’ve prescribed corrective surgeries, pharmaceuticals, and Kegel exercises to fix what’s become misunderstood.
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Don’t We Hurt Like You?: Examining the Lack of Portrayals of African American Women and Mental Health
Mental health issues are not a “white-girl thing.”
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