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Sex workers on feminism
It’s movie night! This video, made by sex workers, features sex workers speaking out about women’s right “to choose what happens to one’s body and to control what happens to one’s body.” It’s a...
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The state and your sex life
One of the first signs that Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) was of an authoritarian temper indistinguishable from the Mubarak regime came last March, when the military took seven...
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Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (3)
This is part 3 of a three-part post. Parts 1 and 2 are above. Campaign poster for Proposition K, a 2008 initiative to decriminalize prostitution in San Francisco, US Professionally, we prefer victims:...
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Human Rights Watch on women’s sexuality: Nice women don’t have one (1)
Still hazy after all these years This is Part 1 of a three-part post Missed connections; or, how not to find lesbians Here’s some of what a friend of mine, an Egyptian lesbian, 33 and butch, told me...
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Ireland and damaged belonging: From Magdalene Laundries to Cupcake Scrub
Still from The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film on Ireland’s Magdalene laundries “It is true,” he said, “that you cannot commit a crime and that the right arm of the law cannot lay its finger on you...
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Uganda, the World Bank, and LGBT rights: Winners and losers
Participants in a march demanding health-care funding to fight maternal mortality, Kampala, Uganda, May 22, 2012 Victory! .. isn’t it? On February 27, the World Bank announced it was “indefinitely”...
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