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This weekly Saturday column "Ask Professor Foxy" will regularly contain sexually explicit material. This material is likely not safe for work viewing. The title of the column will include the major topic of the post, so please read the topic......

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Sinclair Sexmith is a sex blogger who writes the Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top. She's been blogging about sex and gender for several years now, and at Sugarbutch she blogs about......

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Remember the conservative "experts" in Texas trying to change school curricula? Well, it looks like they won. A new bill in Georgia passed committee on Wednesday that would outlaw race- and sex-selective abortions. Broadsheet talks about why this is problematic.......

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On Wednesday night, I was honored to be a guest on CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer Live, a weekly current events show filmed here in New York. I was there, along with Marisa Meltzer, the author of Girl Power: the Nineties......

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Nothing more effective in selling a product than telling women their used-up vadges are ruining their relationships. Another gem after the jump. (Text at the bottom says "Vaginal-tightening gel for women over 40.") via copyranter.......

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This is a guest post of the presentation given by our incredible student panelist at the University of Iowa for our college tour, Conner Spinks. Just a freshman, Conner's insight, brilliance and general bad-assery absolutely blew us away. To......

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So, I live in BK and work in Manhattan. That means that every morning and every night, I spend about 30 minutes riding the NYC subway -an hour total on a daily basis. Now. Usually I don't mind this......

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We couldn't go to Minneapolis without stopping by the infamous Smitten Kitten. So Samhita, Miriam and I finished up our Midwest tour out in Iowa and Minneapolis this week, and holy warm feminist fuzzies! The folks out at the......

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I love Vanessa Williams for at least trying to bring up the question of racial privilege verse black familial failure in "The Blind Side," but I wish Barbara Walters would stop babbling so V could finish her point! No......

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Image from True/Slant. A high school in Mississippi, so distraught by their own homophobia canceled the prom because they didn't want a lesbian couple to attend. The Itawamba County school district's policy requires that senior prom dates be of......

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Speaking of queering pop culture... Lyrics here. You can watch the original a capella version of this video by the University of Rochester Yellowjackets here. h/t to Professor Foxy......

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This just in. Men > Women. Men are simply better at everything. Oh yeah, one last thing: there is no large scale, man-driven absurd conspiracy against women. You're just stupid. Wake up. -A Man Hey A Man, tell us......

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After removing the word "reckless," this appalling bill has been signed by Governer Gary Herbert in Utah. The language of the bill was edited but originally proposed that "reckless and unintentional" death of a fetus would be criminalized, as in,......

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Representative Bart Stupak, formerly an obscure Member of Congress who rose to notoriety when he introduced the anti-choice Stupak Amendment to health reform, is being challenged in the Democratic primary in Michigan. From TPM: Connie Saltonstall, a former commissioner in......

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Responding to hateful speech from Howard Stern feels almost silly - after all, being an asshole bigot is what the guy does for a living. But I'm too damn pissed off by his comments about Gabby Sidibe to leave them......

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