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Hugging 101
Earlier today, Sesali wrote about the importance of teaching kids about consent. Children, just like everyone else, have the right to set boundaries about who can touch them and how. We need to listen....
View ArticleHow We Should Be Talking About Tyga and Men Who Prey on Underaged Girls
26 year old Tyga is currently involved in yet another controversy involving an underaged girl. And we need to talk about why this shouldn’t be a thing. Speculation that Cali rapper, Tyga, and Kylie...
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Pleasure in the Time of Nationalism
A version of this piece was first given as a talk at the St. Stephen’s College Gender Studies Cell in Delhi University North Campus, India. It’s written in the context of the ongoing Indian student...
View Article7 things people do in bed that ethically kind of suck
Hey folks, it’s me again, a whole week since I’ve last written and — guess what? — sexual relations under racist/capitalist/hetero-cis-patriarchy are still a bummer.Sometimes they’re a more casual...
View Article“We’re all progressive here!”
“Oversensitive,” writes feminist scholar Sara Ahmed, “Can be translated as: Sensitive to that which is not over.” Ahmed’s words, from the much-referenced piece “Against Students,” have proven prescient...
View Article“Stealthing” is sexual violence. Let’s talk about it that way.
Content warning: This piece discusses sexual assault, including the author’s experience of a non-consensual sexual experience. The mainstream media is doing an excellent job of burying the lede about...
View ArticleFeministing Reads: Ask
When you really start thinking about consent and power, you go through a mental wormhole where your brain short-circuits over questions like: What is the meaning of consent when the world is so...
View ArticleDear NYT and Atlantic: Do We Really Need A Primer On Enthusiastic Consent in...
After a woman pseudonymously named “Grace” accused comedian Aziz Ansari of sexual assault last week, it took less than 24 hours for the victim blaming to begin: spearheaded, of course, by none other...
View ArticleIs There A “Gray Zone” in Consent?
If you’ve ever made a formal complaint of gendered violence, you might have felt that translating raw experience into the language of law is like describing a walk through the forest using only the...
View ArticleSeven Reasons Consent Apps Are A Terrible Idea
Feminists: making everything harder for god-fearing gentlemen who feel entitled to get laid. We’ve come a long way from the good old days when men had a right to sex with their wives regardless of...
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