Three years ago, I discovered that I was a part of one of the strongest communities in the world.
Disabled women seem to exist in a world where sexuality is either denied to us even when we enthusiastically call for it or bestowed upon us even when we vehemently don’t want it.
Treating sex as taboo isn’t helping anyone.
Last month, Utah lawmakers struck down a bill that would have required consent to be taught in sex-education classes.
This year, CES allowed a female-led and oriented sex tech companies to appear at the show.
More and more women are starting to turn to mail-order services as a quick and cheap source for birth control pills. But many of these women may not be aware that they are putting themselves at risk by obtaining their pills this way.
The award is well deserved, given that the influence of Missy Elliott’s work — especially her creative vision for her music videos — transcends generations and is still evident in popular music today.
Wry, humorous, and dark, Pity Boy captures the inner turmoil of being an LGBTQ+ adult trying to navigate relationships with family, friends, and partners; the songs on this album explore self-destructive habits, and self-doubt, that emerge from this exploration.
Kenyan women and girls rarely get information about abortion at all because our society is heavily influenced by conservative religious beliefs. There is no sex education in the Kenyan education system, and religion seeps into classes like biology; Kenyan students are taught in their schools that abortion is evil and against God’s will.
Womxn in Yucatan, Mexico, fight misogyny, homophobia, classism, and racism on a daily basis. Some womxn in the state are fighting back through the arts. One such community doing so is the Yucatecan ballroom scene.
I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.
Rather than follow the longstanding social script that young people should feel shame about their sex lives, Sex Education normalizes the concept of teens asking questions about their bodies and relationships.
“Sex Hurts” is the first episode of “Bodies,” a podcast produced by Allison Behringer that delves into some of the physiological experiences women commonly have but individually find mysterious.
The Favourite leans into the intentionality of the female characters’ sexuality and of their savagery, giving each character her own agency over both of these forces and, in doing so, casting their actions as morally ambiguous.ar
As a peer educator at Sex Education by Theatre (SExT), a youth-led, theater-based sex education program, I have a place to express my thoughts and frustrations about the precautions my friends and I take when we go out.
I’m still trying to work my way to a healthy appreciation and understanding of both my body and my sexuality. But my interpretation of them is warped by my experiences with sexual assault and objectification, with the need for desirability and validation that has been beaten into me as a woman.
While there are no laws that blatantly incriminate homosexuality, same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Kenya, a country that is also generally quite socially hostile to members of the LGBTQ+ community.
As season 3 of the “Nancy” podcast from WNYC Studios comes to a close, co-hosts Kathy Tu and Tobin Low took some time to tell the FBomb about their show, their lives, and which Queer Eye character they would be.
Currently, control over fertility via LARC (long-acting reversible contraception) is restricted to women; men have no LARC options. This is problematic for a number of reasons.
Monáe’s new album navigates the myriad emotions involved in being socially deviant and outcast for that deviance.
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain is Norman’s exploration of her own experience with pain — specifically, doctors' failure to get to the bottom of it as well as their suggestions that the pain was "all in her head."
With hookup culture come types of behavior and a set of expectations perhaps just as repressive to college women as any of the traditional gender norms or societal gender roles entrenched in our communities and institutions.
You do not understand that you have hurt me. In fact, you are focused on how offended you are by the choices I made about my body.
How I realized that “virginity” is a crucial element of a broader sexist culture that aims to oppress women through their bodies.