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Amy Chozick, “For the First Time, a Black Woman Will Lead The Harvard Crimson“
”Now Kristine E. Guillaume will lead The Crimson’s “146th guard,” making her the third black president and first black woman to helm the organization since its founding in 1873.”
Tracy Clark-Flory, “Trolls Impotently Warn They're Reporting Sex Workers to the IRS—and Sex Workers Mostly Ignore Them”
”That post, which now has over a thousand comments, is being credited with launching the charmingly titled #ThotAudit, in which a crew of trolls is giddily calling for folks to tip off the IRS to individual sex workers for not reporting their income from social media.”
Blair Donovan, “Multiple LGBTQ Migrant Caravan Travelers Wed in a Combined Ceremony at the U.S.-Mexico Border“
”Love wins yet again. At least seven LGBTQ couples traveling through Central America as part of the migrant caravan paused to participate in a massive wedding ceremony at the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Dawn Foster, “The gender pain gap is real. Doctors, stop dismissing women’s conditions“
”Each new healthcare scandal shows the medical profession needs to overcome biases in diagnosing and treating women”
Françoise Girard, “Abortion Pills Aren’t Enough to Keep Coat Hangers in the Closet“
”The International Women’s Health Coalition welcomes do-it-yourself abortion pills as the extremely safe, effective and empowering technology they are. But we worry about the many women who will be left behind unless legal restrictions are removed, funding for abortion services is provided and barriers to access are eliminated.”
Hira Humayun and Susannah Cullinane, “Taiwan voters reject same-sex marriage“
”Taiwanese voters rejected same-sex marriage in a referendum Saturday, dealing a blow to the LGBT community and allies who hoped the island would become the first place in Asia to allow same-sex unions.”
Gina Kolata, Sui-Lee Wee, and Pam Belluck, “Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies“
”On Monday, a scientist in China announced that he had created the world’s first genetically edited babies, twin girls who were born this month.”
Chitra Ramaswamy, “If judges think women who date online ‘would have sex with anyone’, we’re really in trouble“
”According to the barrister Helena Kennedy, some judges have woefully outdated views. No wonder courts let women down”
John Reed, “Thais celebrate the prospect of same-sex unions as a leap forward“
”In moving towards same-sex unions, Thailand is virtually alone in Asia. Taiwanese voters rejected a referendum measure on gay marriage on Saturday, despite a court order to allow LGBT people to wed.”
Alanna Rizza, “Feds investing $450,000 to improve safety of LGBTQ Canadians“
”The federal government announced Saturday it will invest nearly half a million dollars in improving the safety of Canada's LGBTQ community in the wake of the killings of eight men with ties to Toronto's gay village.”
Andrew Sutherland, “LGBTQ center gives UK students a home away from home for the holidays“
”The Office of Institutional Diversity’s LGBTQ Resource Center has created a solution with its ‘Welcome Home’ program, pairing students with faculty and staff to ensure that no one is left out this holiday season.”
Ola Synowiec, “The third gender of southern Mexico“
”In Oaxaca’s Istmo de Tehuantepec region, the traditional indigenous division of three genders is seen as a natural way of being.”
Craig Takeuchi, “Canadian documentary Picture This takes an honest look at sexuality and disability“
”A Toronto advocate has been raising awareness about sex and disabled people, and a Canadian film about him and his work is now available for online viewing.”
“Thousands join first gay march in Delhi since law change on homosexuality in India”
”Thousands marched through Delhi's main street in the first gay pride parade since homosexuality was decriminalised in India.”
Article Spotlight
"This article investigates Garrison’s life through the lens of black press coverage about him between 1920 and 1938. Focusing on Lautier’s and Matthews’s coverage, I argue that an examination of the news about Garrison and other female impersonators and gay men in the Afro-American can remap our understanding of traditionally male-centered black institutions such as the Afro-American, Howard University, and Prince Hall Masonic Temple as nodes in a network of locations that sustained gender-nonconforming and homosexual expression, albeit with varying degrees of complexity and resistance. By carefully reconstructing the pieces of Garrison’s life and by revealing how he and other female impersonators negotiated the interstices of race, gender, class, and sexuality from their position as outsiders to both the black community and American society in general, we begin to learn about how black institutions and organizations both incorporated and excluded gender-nonconforming and homosexual expression."
Episode Spotlight
For years, telephone companies had been encouraging customers to “reach out and touch someone.” In the 1980s, phone sex lines and dial-a-porn transformed the intimacy of phone conversations into a multi-million-dollar sexual enterprise. A simple and relatively cheap phone call could connect you with dial-a-porn, a telephone service offering short erotic recordings. Phone sex lines were more expensive, and featured operators, known as fantasy artists, who would act out sexual fantasies for and with you. Over the course of the 1980s, telephones, credit cards and imaginations brought countless people together to co-create sexual fantasies, and experience new forms of sexual gratification.
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Believed’s “The Good Guy”
”How did former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abuse hundreds of girls and women for decades? To understand how he got away with it, we have to begin with the doctor in his prime, when everyone thought of him as Larry, the good guy.”
UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America’s “Garrard and the Story of Job“
”This is a modern day story of Job. It starts with Garrard Conley, a young gay kid growing up in rural Arkansas, trying to find a place to stand between a devout father and unforgiving God, and ends in a dramatic escape from an ex-gay camp and the smuggling out of a book that overturns an industry.”
