Posted in Feminism, Media, Sexuality, tagged film, Film theory, homosexuality on 22 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Memory can sometimes be a strange beast. While thinking about this piece, I suddenly remembered an article Cath Elliot wrote on the bad sex in literature award two years ago under the title, Flaccid prose, and the first comment it elicited:
flaccid is an unnecessary man-hating word to use in the title. I’m all for feminism, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexuality, tagged film, Transgender on 17 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This review also appears on Bitch Magazine’s latest issue No. 45, codenamed Art/See.
As an undergraduate in genetics, I learned about “abnormal gender” from medical texts, which taught me that the line between what was female and what was male was clear; anything in between was a chromosomal disorder and an aberration in nature. The message [...]
Posted in Feminism, Media, Sexuality on 15 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Loads of people who work in the sex industry are academics – education is a very expensive habit,” said Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers who has been a sex worker herself for 10 years.
“At a brothel I worked in, I think I was the only one not doing a PhD.”
On [...]
Posted in Feminism, Religion, Sexuality, tagged Religion on 21 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The calls of lawyer, activist, and writer Seyran Ates for a sexual revolution in the heterogeneous Muslim world may surprise many, particularly when the movement is commonly associated with free love, hippies, and public nudity. In a recent interview with German magazine Spiegel, Ates begins with discussing what she means by this and her experiences [...]
Posted in Feminism, Malaysia, Religion, Sexuality, tagged Muslim women, Polygamy on 30 September, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Originally posted at Muslimah Media Watch
Stories about polygamy tend to surge and ebb in the media, but they never fail to intrigue people. Recently in South Africa, a Zulu man married four women–all at once–making the most popular story on the BBC news website (you can watch the clip here). In the video, a male [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexuality, tagged British TV on 16 September, 2009 | 6 Comments »
There was a time as a sex-positive feminist I believed that women should be able to enjoy porn if it floats their boat, and that all other avenues for female sexual desire should be open as long as elements so fundamental to the world of feminism and sex – choice and consent – are present. [...]
Posted in Feminism, Malaysia, Sexuality on 4 September, 2009 | 26 Comments »
When I was growing up, sex was everywhere in the household, except that the word ’sex’ was never mentioned. Books about violent crimes against women were littered around the house and I read every one of them, thinking to some degree that I was reading – and learning – about sex. Living with a single [...]
Posted in Books, Feminism, Sexuality on 4 September, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Apparently, this is the author’s best work:
“It’s difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead . . .”
Book description:
Steve falls madly in love with Stacy, but it isn’t until they move in together that he hears voices coming from Stacy’s southern junction. When a skeletal creature makes [...]
Posted in Feminism, Malaysia, Sexuality on 2 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was originally published over at Muslimah Media Watch last Monday, on the 31st of August – Malaysia’s national day, popularly known as ‘Merdeka Day’.
Who would have thought that sexuality rights were being celebrated in the historical and cultural heart of the Malaysian capital two weeks ago? Malaysia, like anywhere else (Muslim-majority or not) [...]
Posted in Feminism, Post-colonialism, Sexuality, tagged Racism on 27 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The following is a guest post by regular commenter, Gareth:
I am a white Englishman with an Asian girlfriend. I believe the so-called ‘Asian fetish’ is both racist and sexist, and here is why.
Being a white, straight man gives me a ton load of privilege, and that privilege is systemic and global. I am aware of [...]
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