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
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
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
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
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
Check out SUNY Professor Janell Hobson’s excellent piece on female pop star videos in the context of Ferguson. What are your thoughts? … Continue reading
In an effort to be slightly less heteronormative than usual, Cosmopolitan magazine has been running the occasional queer-friendly article. Following last December’s “14 Things You Should Never Say to a Gay Man” and the more recent “8 Things Not to … Continue reading
This article at The Atlantic is kind of funny “there’s a lot of these guys who are partnered with women who are better looking than them, which is just because, on average, women are better looking. Men are partnering ‘up’ … Continue reading
Many posts on this blog have dealt with the omnipresent problem of the objectification of women in our society and around the world. Feminists of all stripes agree that this is a problem, though what exactly constitutes “objectification” and what … Continue reading
Female student participants stop shaving their legs and underarms for ten weeks during the semester while keeping a journal to document their experiences. For male students, the assignment is to shave all body hair from the neck down. “There’s no … Continue reading
En la copa mundial de de Brasil vimos algo más que futbol. Entre la emoción de ganar y la decepción de perder presenciamos la actuación de los mexicanos, no solo de los futbolistas, sino de nuestros compatriotas mostrando que en … Continue reading
This advertisement for Always feminine hygiene products has been getting lots of positive attention on social media the past few days: A major company is investing its advertising dollars into empowering girls. Fantastic! (Even if, as one Facebook commenter noted, … Continue reading
