Voices
When working with parents on child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention, I often get asked the question, “How old should my…
When working with parents on child sexual abuse prevention, I often get asked the question, “How old should my kids be before I talk to them about sexual abuse?” My usual response is, “How old do kids need to be before they can be sexually abused?”
[slideshow_deploy id=’1730′] What does consent mean to you?
Feminist critiques are often critiques of relationship structures: marriage, the joint and nuclear family, monogamy, and heteronormativity. Patriarchy, fundamentally a system of inheritance, finds a natural home in these structures.
This is why I’ve often wondered: how do feminists imagine and navigate romantic relationships? Do they have to constantly be thinking about and watching out for the many ways in which power, privilege, autonomy and entitlement manifest in their relationships and dating culture? It seems rather unromantic to do so.
There is something incommensurable about the phrase ‘queering mothering’ – the two words put together, ‘queer’ and ‘mother’. We think of motherhood as a relationship between a ‘woman’ (the biological mother) and her child. Nevertheless, there are a number of people who form bonds with a growing child.
“How different it would be if for a moment health care providers could feel what we feel when we go to a hospital and are challenged…”
And so, the women sex workers of RedTraSex (Network of Women Sex Workers from Latin America and the Caribbean) developed Ponte en Nuestros Zapatos (re-edited 2015). Now, reaching out to a wider community, is the brand new English version Walk in our Shoes: Good Practices Guide for Health Care Staff (2016, translated by Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani). Yes, it is so brand new that it is not up on their website as yet, though we have permission to use it here.
This malignancy of toxic masculinity is a mutant inheritance that is hard to eradicate. However, initiating discussions about it and spreading awareness is essential to minimise the cost to its victims.
She leans over casually, across me, and rummages in her bag for a moment. I push away the spark of…
‘Pakistan is a homophobic place,’ Karim continues. ‘As in any other conservative society, queers can have all the sex and…
In one of the most compelling and difficult scenes in 2013’s acclaimed Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, a young Milkha Singh is…
Boys standing up to their fathers are invitations to patriarchy When boys become men it is marked by celebratory loud…
Nepal has been occupying the news headlines for the last few months, either due to the devastating earthquake that killed…
Consent [1] has always been a loaded term and when we qualify it with ‘informed’, the realistic practical understanding of…
I look at you, a warm embrace, with arms, eyes, mind, heart and soul. You look at me, eyes…