Tags – Sexuality
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Sex work and the state
An interview with Kara Gillies
Kara Gillies is a sex worker and activist who has been advocating for sex workers’ rights and well-being for the past two decades. She co-founded both the Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour and the former Toronto Migrant Sex Workers Advocacy Group. Gillies hosted a sex worker rights radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM called The Shady Lady and was a health worker at the Hassle Free Clinic. She has been involved with Maggie’s (www.maggiestoronto.ca), a Toronto-based sex worker-run organization, for 18 years and currently coordinates its education program.
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Strange bedfellows
How feminism and porn get it on at the Feminist Porn Awards
What on earth is feminist porn, anyway? In an effort to answer that question, I tracked down Chanelle Gallant, the former manager of Good For Her and founder of the Feminist Porn Awards.
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Finding his better half
The Boy Code & the modern man
Men’s social conditioning takes a tremendous toll on not just their relationships, but also on their health. Those who want this to change, Calvin Sandborn argues, will have to come to terms with the concept of patriarchy-and with their own emotions.
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Letter from the editor
Gender politics in theory & practice
Briarpatch always seeks to connect theory and practice in its coverage, but in my experience, there is no issue that is at once so theoretical and so practical, so simultaneously personal and political, as gender.
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Won’t get schooled agaiin
Feminist home-schoolers are creating new ways of living and learning
A vocal minority of home-schoolers are progressives, even radicals, who home-school as a way to offer their children the freedom to explore their intellectual interests and to express themselves in a loving, nurturing environment. -
Book review
Getting off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Book review
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10 straight questions
Learning about the heterosexuals among us
Let’s face it: there are lots of heterosexuals out there! Why not take a few moments to learn a little more about them?
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Body work
Extreme adventures on the cutting edge of gender theory
These underground, illegal operations seek to reconfigure female and male bodies in ways that make society squirm, challenging our most deeply held traditional notions of beauty and gender.
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Queer internationalism
Radical sexual diversity from South to North
The current state of international LGBTQ activism does not speak to the needs and demands of the majority of LGBTQs, especially in the Global South. Instead, the agenda of such a movement can be seen as the projection of the demands of mainstream Northern LGBTQ social movements as “universal.”
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The Third Sex
Supporting the struggles of transgendered people
