Just on the heels of last week’s post regarding Leah Green’s reverse street harassment video, comes Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s write up in the New York Time’s Art section this week, An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste. The artist’s most recent project is just one more creative attempt to bring attention to the overwhelmingly commonplace problem of street harassment. Her posters, wheat pasted on walls around the country, feature faces of young women accompanied by […]

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It is difficult to pinpoint the origins of my interest in gender relations, but one of the most prominent memories that launched my self-awareness of being a woman in this world was when I was cat-called on a street corner when I was in 9th grade. The incident was so specifically unique to my identity as a female and to my physical body that it forced me to begin considering the differences that I was bound to face simply because of my […]

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I’m on the road this week, so I am indulging in magazine reading as my travel smut. This New York Time’s Magazine article (because no, I don’t read Playboy for the articles) The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists, by Benoit Denizet-Lewis, proved to be a lengthy and interesting read regarding the enduring phenomenon of “biphobia.” The author, a self-identified gay man, spends some time with John Sylla, the president of the American Institute of Bisexuality (A.I.B.), a well-endowed group […]

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A colleague recently brought to my attention the story of “Belle Knox,” a Duke University freshman who was  outed (and subsequently harassed on campus and social media) for her decision to work in the porn industry to help pay for her exorbitant tuition. ( I find it necessary to mention that my mother’s name is Belle, my fiancé’ was recently accepted to Duke  University, and I had the noteworthy experience of befriending Amanda Knox, whom Belle derives her stage name […]

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