Category: Intersectionality
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Swedish Women Don’t Fall Over: How snow clearing can be sexist and how everyone wins when it isn’t
One staff member joked that at least there couldn’t be any gender inequality in snow clearing.
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Changing Sex on Screen
Contains mentions of sexual, racial, and homophobic violence/discrimination, and spoilers for Bridgerton, I May Destroy You, and It’s a Sin
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles pt. IV: The Gender-Equalists
Whilst patriarchal oppression is the default state many female small-town residents unconsciously accept and internalise, there are also shining examples of women this system has failed to intimidate.
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On the Remarkable Versatility of Shame
From the onset of puberty, girls are taught to fear their sexual nature and hide their bodies as changes in their physical appearance reveal an ‘impure’ part of themselves.
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles pt. III: (Un)Learning by Doing
Increasing the student’s encounter with feminist ideas on a textual level is great, but is unlikely to be effective on its own,
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Breaking Free from Compulsory Heterosexuality
This self-imposed attraction definitely took a heavy toll on my mental health during my teenage years. That is what comp het can do.
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An interview on the Normalization of Being Asexual
I did not want to be asexual. But it makes sense that I am.
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles Pt. II: The Patriarchal Status Quo
The incapacity of self-criticism conforms to the patriarchal, heteronormative system that community members have been spoon-fed since birth.
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“I Was A Misogynist”: Lessons from Jameela Jamil’s Red Table Talk
“I was project unlearn. I was a bitter, twisted, angry woman”
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles pt. I: Introduction
This reality is not the global status quo, but a city-centric phenomenon that has yet to reach local communities of small towns and villages like my hometown.
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Forced sterilization and the dictatorship over our wombs
As long as practices like forced sterilization take place, equality between genders is a complete myth.
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