The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling didn’t only impact me as a person who could get pregnant but also because reproductive rights were central to my existence.
Treating sex as taboo isn’t helping anyone.
Last month, Utah lawmakers struck down a bill that would have required consent to be taught in sex-education classes.
These three categories — sexual projets, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies — comprise a radically new framework for thinking about sex.
Consent, or usually lack thereof, is probably most frequently referenced in our society in cases of sexual assault. However, we must learn how to use consent as a tool in every relationship to identify problematic behaviors in any relationship in which there are different levels of power.
Kenyan women and girls rarely get information about abortion at all because our society is heavily influenced by conservative religious beliefs. There is no sex education in the Kenyan education system, and religion seeps into classes like biology; Kenyan students are taught in their schools that abortion is evil and against God’s will.
By creatively merging theater, dialogue, and activism in Ghana, Drama Queens, a nonprofit feminist organization, is challenging patriarchal norms and ideas and changing the damaging narratives about rape culture and sexuality that are deeply entrenched in many African societies.
As a peer educator at Sex Education by Theatre (SExT), a youth-led, theater-based sex education program, I have a place to express my thoughts and frustrations about the precautions my friends and I take when we go out.
Suplicy, who is now 73, served in Brazilian politics for years. But even before her political career, Suplicy brought discussions of important issues straight to Brazilian homes through a television show called TV Mulher, during which Suplicy gave sex advice to female viewers in a political era of dictatorship.
There is disproportionate rate of HIV infection among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Here's what you need to know ahead of World AIDS Day.