Tags – Sexuality
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Toward sexual self-determination
Book review
What You Really Really Want is a powerful tool for radically transforming how we understand and navigate the complexities of our own sexuality.
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Walking papers
Honourable mention, creative writing contest (fiction)
Kelly is tragically reliable. When she is laid off from her government job, she finds another, more lucrative, way to pay the bills.
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‘One of the girls’
The sexual politics of roller derby
As the sport gains popularity and leagues attract increasingly diverse members, the question of how to include trans women has sparked important conversations and at times led to divisions.
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Videos won’t make things better; try policies
Conservatives’ It Gets Better video rings hollow and hypocritical in the absence of queer-positive policy
The federal government should get serious about supporting the queer community through progressive policies, strategies and funding to allow queer communities to develop the programs that our youth so desperately need.
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Lives less livable
Judith Butler on expanding queer solidarity beyond sexuality
Butler’s theory of gender-as-performance remains her best-known contribution to academia, but for the last decade her attention has gradually shifted from gender to the politics of war. Now she’s struggling with questions like, whose deaths matter, and why are some deaths grievable but others not?
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Everyday drag
A photo essay on the aesthetics of gender and the pressure to perform
As a female-bodied pastor, I work in a profession where people still openly argue about whether or not women should be allowed to serve, and I am regularly called father on the streets by bewildered people who don’t have any language for a minister who wears a bra. This photo essay seeks to dramatize the pressures of performance, repression of sexuality and particularly the suppression of breasts and menstruation that affect the lives and work of female clergy.
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Safer sex work
The case for decriminalization
“In my view the law plays a sufficient contributory role in preventing a prostitute from taking steps that could reduce the risk of such violence.” With these concluding remarks by Justice Susan Himel, the laws that kept sex work illegal in Ontario were struck down in November 2010. The ruling, however, has been stayed, pending an appeal by the federal government that’s scheduled to begin in June, 2011.
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Queer, undocumented and unafraid
Sexuality meets immigration politics in a youth-led movement for immigrant rights
If passed, the DREAM Act would grant conditional permanent residency and a path to citizenship to undocumented students who arrived in the U.S. as minors. This article chronicles the lives of three queer undocumented activists who have risked deportation to fight for its passage.
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Sanitizing Pride
In the lead-up to Pride festivities this June, we review last year’s attempted ban of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
With Toronto’s 31st annual Pride Parade fast approaching, the legacy of last year’s controversial attempted banning of the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from the Parade continues to resonate today.
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Witch hunts past and present
Book review
In the classic zine Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers, republished as a book with a new introduction in 2010, authors Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich provide an overview of the repression and exclusion of women lay healers in Europe and the United States. The authors explore the connection between the witch hunts in Europe and attempts to eliminate and discredit women healers, as well as the rise of an elitist and male-dominated medical establishment in the United States.
