Breaking the Cycle of Street Harassment
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if [...]
Gender
The Effects of Title IX
The National Football League (NFL) boasts almost 1,700 players and, unsurprisingly, every player is male. Some professional sports in the United States have a women’s [...]
7 Reasons Why Objections to Identity Politics Are Nonsense
I normally don’t like list-based articles. They’re ways of effectively turning creative thought into an assembly line of pithy, separate insights, preventing the need for [...]
Apparently Necessary Comments About the Wage Gap and Sexism
The wage gap is an issue that is now becoming a central political issue. Bernie Sanders made it an issue, as did Hillary Clinton. (And both campaigns were accused of [...]
Defending Bathrooms
North Carolina’s House Bill Two, Part One, formally called the Public Facilities Privacy And Security Act, addresses the use of single-sex, multiple occupancy bathrooms and [...]
We’re Probably All Pansexual
Millennials are becoming increasingly aware of sexual identities. We have grown up in an era in which we’ve seen drastic cultural shifts in the way in which we talk [...]
Breaking Down Gender Stereotypes One Cup of Coffee at a Time
When my wife was pregnant with our first child we decided not to find out whether our child was a boy or a girl. We wanted to go the old fashion way. In part our decision [...]
Shaping Sexuality: Supporting Families in Transition
When a loved one makes the decision to change their gender representation permanently, it can be devastating for other family members. The change requires parents, spouses, [...]
Shaping Sexuality: Why are effeminate men ridiculed in the LBGT community?
We live in a subculture that is shackled in the chains of gender expectation. The media blitz’s us with images that are an astronomically unrealistic of what it is to be [...]
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