This Valentine’s Day, FemSex is cooking up a little something for the Columbia/Barnard community, so we had a little photo shoot to celebrate things we love! Check out a few of our favorites, courtesy of some of our beautiful facilitators and coordinators.
FemSex is a peer-facilitated, semester-long discussion group at Columbia University, dedicated to the empowerment and fulfillment of the sexual self. FemSex aims to create an inclusive, safe, and diverse community that fosters the sexual growth of its participants by adopting an intersectional approach to examine the external and internal forces that control our sexuality, drawing primarily on the lived expertise of the participants and their individual potential for increased learning and understanding. This is where we talk about what makes us juicy, what makes us joyous, and what makes us rage. Welcome!
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Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men’s Magazine And A Rapist? →
Many of the rapists quoted in the study talked about coercing women or having sex with them even though they were initially unwilling. However, so did the lad mags. Horvath says, “Rapists try to justify their actions, suggesting that women lead men on, or want sex even when they say no, and there is clearly something wrong when people feel the sort of language used in a lads’ mag could have come from a convicted rapist.” A lot of these stereotypes — that women say no when they really mean yes, or are “asking for it” by going out with a man or wearing a short skirt — have indeed been normalized, and it’s sad but not surprising that they appear in a lot of lad mags. Defenders of such statements like to frame them as innocent, or even helpful, observations. But perhaps the news that they sound just like rapists will make people — and magazines — rethink their words.
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Hook-Up Dilemma
http://fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com/post/13074490436
(Also, just one of my favorite blogs ever.)
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To honor National Coming Out Day— an awesome video about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and immigration rights!
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Love Your Body Day →
What do you love about your body?
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
