“Health Researchers Will Get $10.1 Million to Counter Gender Bias in Studies”

The NIH has launched a program to counter gender bias in medical research. Fortunately policy makers seem to be listening to feminist Copyright 2012 Pamela Thompson Your subconscious mind is quite receptive to the words and suggestions of the Hypnotherapist … Continue reading

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Research into Sex Differences – Carrots and Sticks

In this piece from Scientific American, R. Douglas Fields argues that the new US National Institutes of Health policy, which is intended to drive research in sex differences, is a major step in the wrong direction. The new policy requires … Continue reading

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AIC goes to Hollywood: Why We Should Watch MTV’s Faking It

MTV’s half-hour romantic comedy series, Faking It, will feature a character with an intersex condition (or DSD) this season (see the Hollywood Reporter story here). This is not the first time a character with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) has appeared … Continue reading

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AIC goes to Hollywood:
Why We Should Watch MTV’s Faking It

MTV’s half-hour romantic comedy series, Faking It, will feature a character with an intersex condition (or DSD) this season (see the Hollywood Reporter story here). This is not the first time a character with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) has appeared … Continue reading

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“Remember #BringBackOurGirls? This Is What Has Happened In The 5 Months Since”

It’s depressing.So why are you waiting? Go and buy the magical product and surprise your tadalafil price partner. In this day and age, it’s a terrific choice to have; to be able to walk down a beverage aisle in any … Continue reading

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“‘Why Didn’t You Just Leave?’: Six Domestic Violence Survivors Explain Why It’s Never That Simple”

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“Time to End Sex-Testing of Female Athletes”

Because of an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) policy, Dutee Chand, an 18-year-old Indian sprinter, was blocked from competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games because her body makes too much testosterone. She has been … Continue reading

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“A Raised Hand: Can a new approach curb domestic homicide?”

Dorothy Giunta-Cotter knew that someday her husband, William, would kill her. They met in 1982, when he was twenty and she was fifteen: a girl with brown eyes and cascading dark hair. Over the course of twenty years, he had … Continue reading

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Visual Critique: Illustrating the Issue of Street Harassment

Over the last couple of months, various artists have spoken out against the phenomenon of cat-calling. Last year, Buzzfeed released a list of “18 Kickass Illustrated Responses to Street Harassment,” but I only recently noticed many more such responses on … Continue reading

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“Get Stolen Naked Photos Off the Web: Congress needs to change the law to force Reddit and 4Chan to do the right thing.”

It’s time to extend the protections copyright offers to victims of involuntary porn. These images are clear invasions of privacy, and it’s not hard to judge whether there is value in making them public (as it might be for a … Continue reading

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“Monument Seeks to End Silence on Killings of the Disabled by the Nazis”

The first to be singled out for systematic murder by the Nazis were the mentally ill and intellectually disabled. By the end of World War II, an estimated 300,000 of them had been gassed or starved, their fates hidden by … Continue reading

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