Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Vile and Oblivious Politicians Support State Violence Against Children At least three recent stories in Caribbean media have highlighted the systemic rape of boys and girls in state care and the horror houses known as children’s homes. Getting raped while literally under the care and protection of…
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Moving away from the cult of the body in 2014
Originally posted on Fit and Feminist:
In recent years, I’ve made a habit of spending the last several days of the year engaged in a sort of psychological reset, which is basically a fancy way of saying I spend my time relaxing and thinking about things. I haven’t normally made resolutions because I’ve found that…
Diary of a mothering worker. August 28, 2013
Originally posted on grrlscene:
Post 115. Ziya is two, but she’s clear about sex, her body and reproduction. That gives her a language to ask questions, assess knowledge, think about herself, identify her rights and break silences around all too common phenomena such as child sexual abuse. If you ask her how babies are made,…
Bikinis vs. one-pieces: the debate over swimsuits is not actually about swimsuits
Originally posted on Fit and Feminist:
When swimsuit designer Jessica Rey’s video “The Evolution of the Swimsuit” went viral earlier this year, I didn’t pay it much mind, particularly when I learned she tried to make a connection between bikinis and the objectification of women. I would have happily gone on paying her no mind…
Taking Statutory Rape Seriously
Imagine the following rape statute: “If a person over the age of twenty-one years has sexual contact constituting oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a minor under the age or fourteen years, such person shall be guilty of a Class A felony and shall be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.” If the legislature…
We’re all sex workers, aren’t we?
“I have sex, just like you. I just have it for money. You don’t do that? Really? So how did you get that Blackberry? That fancy car? Or that fancy dinner I heard you talking about last night?” This is an imaginary conversation that came out of a session that was held during a media … Continue reading
Sex-Positive
I felt oddly liberated this weekend. I sat in a room of media personnel and advocates for minority communities such as LGBT people, sex workers and persons infected with HIV and AIDS. What struck me, in addition to the fact that these people were willing to put their faces out there on behalf of these … Continue reading
