Many women of color have also delayed asking for help from health services, but maybe not for the same reasons. ome of these fears are legitimate – perhaps you have been stereotyped by a doctor in the past – because you are a college student, “everybody drinks a little,” or because of your race,...
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Relationships in college are based on linkages – that girl in your econ class is linked to you in some way, as is the alumnus who comes to speak at your next lecture. Links can be made over favorite beverage type, a class discussion, or a particularly crazy party. And they’re important. These linkages...
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Allow me to reintroduce myself; hello, my name is Malaka and I am passionate about womyn’s issues especially relating to sex. Blogging for Refuse the Silence has been a great experience that has challenged me to be a better writer. This will be my last post. I have had an awesome time bringing my thoughts and ideas...
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Kat Stacks is a woman but most probably don’t see her as that at all. Most people would probably more readily call her a “hoe,” relegating her to a less valuable, sub human status. Such is the fate of Kat Stacks and many other women who fall outside of the realm of acceptability with...
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Often times, womyn get harassed by gay men; not all gay men of course. However, womyn get a constant barrage of touches, feels, lingering looks, luring eyes, foul gestures, and snide comments from gay men. It’s as if gay men feel that they can touch and grope any part of a woman’s body with...
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Protecting Native women would mean an ending to misogyny, sexism, and queerphobia. If you want to stop sexual violence, focus on education and therapy as deterrents not just as a response. As activists, the solution is to focus more on developing strategies to do just that instead of relying on and organizing around the...
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For so long feminism has been the place where an old debate exists: liberation versus exploitation. Sexism & misogyny tells us that a woman should be modest, reserved & quiet. In this society, showing off a little skin can get a woman labeled anything from a hooker to slut. In this post, I want...
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In the rape culture that this society perpetuates, the man must always be the aggressor in relationships and sex. The man must always make the first move. Virginity is synonymous with pure. Why is innocence attriubuted to keeping your virginity? Why when you have sex for the first time, you aren’t “innocent” anymore?
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Now that I have relinquished my title as a Christian, I can’t see why a religion makes it so important to tell people, especially womyn, how wrong it is to have sex and therefore suppress a normal, acceptable and even beautiful human right and behavior.
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I have a philosophy. That as women of color, and especially as black women, we need to talk about sex more.
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