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Compulsory Heterosexuality: the War on Lesbians
Trigger Warning: Rape Photo by Pierre Nel “Compulsory heterosexuality:” the idea, proposed by Adrienne Rich in 1980, that society requires women to hold heterosexual lives, and that is primarily...
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Surveillance Culture and (Not So) Digital Harrassment
Cyberspace is a place of visibility where producers lose control of their content at an viral rate. It is the stage of mass exhibitionism and mass voyeurism, a surveillance culture like those explored...
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The Invisible Asexual
Asexuals. Photo by Miss Steel Hold up, wrong image. Photo by trollhare That’s better. I grew up under the assumption that, at some point in my teen years, the heterosexuality fairy would gift me with...
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Hunter’s Third Gender Neutral Bathroom (Doesn’t Exist)
Photo by Wayan Vota Painters swept through Hunter recently. Their first stop was the bathroom in the northern half of the third floor of Thomas Hunter. This is, officially, a woman’s bathroom. It is...
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Hair: the Fetish Idealized, the Fetish Denied
Photo by drothamel Let’s talk about hair. I (used to) have long, straight, blonde hair. Friends and acquaintances cooed over how soft it was, how it caught the light, how it moved in the breeze. They...
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Sexy Sexy Breast Cancer
The breast cancer awareness movement: pink ribbon, pink ribbon, pink label, stress on the importance of self-exams, pink label, Facebook game, pink label, pink t- Wait. What was that? Photo from...
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Stop the Fairy Tale Kiss
Photo by TaniaSaiz When explaining asexuality to friends, the greatest hurdle I usually face is conveying the disconnect between sexual and romantic attraction. Sexual romantics quickly accept that...
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Space on the Bus
Video belongs to TotallyBiased Street harassment is not flattering. It is annoying and gross and even terrifying, and it happens all the time. This is how it feels. A group of men in team jerseys sit...
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No Mic Chat For You
Gaming culture is steeped in misogyny. Really steeped. ‘Are you ever going to drink that tea or just stare at it’ steeped. Female-presenting players are bombarded with constant harassment in-game, and...
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Bleeding Monsters
Got Misogyny? One of the Everything I Do Is Wrong ads Last yeast, the California Milk Processor Board launched an ad campaign “everything I do is wrong,” that focused on apologetic men buying copious...
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