by Rebecca Kallemeyn
The playground word sits in my mouth, a grape candy. I am afraid of my own pleasure the same way I am sometimes afraid of certain colors.Continue Reading
Why the Feminist Question Matters
by Melissa Brooks
Like so many celebrities before her, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting has been making headlines for disavowing feminism. To recap, this is what she said when asked if she considered herself a feminist during a recent interview with Redbook Magazine:Continue Reading
The Sex Wars, Revisited: Sex Positive vs. Sex Negative Feminist Voices on Pornography
From the “sex wars” of the 1980s to today, feminism (as a multi-faceted and -faced movement with nearly as many iterations as there are practitioners, which is yet expected to comprise itself into one monolithic ideology) has, as a whole, grappled and often floundered with issues of sexuality and its representations in mass media.Continue Reading
An Assault of Language: Jennifer Tamayo’s You Da One
by Liz McGehee
“Faces, I suppose, are a type of torture
to look like one but never be one”Continue Reading
Franco, Fetish, and What Happens When You Disrobe the Fantasy
BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) has officially left the cultural cellar and entered the bedroom of mainstream America. What with the viral spread of 50 Shades of Grey, Rihanna making it for the masses in S&M and kink student groups popping up on college campuses across the country—what were once considered anti-normative or even deviant forms of sexuality have now become ubiquitous.Continue Reading
