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Dildo or Dildon’t – A Plug for Sex Toy Regulation in the U.S.

07.25.21

Abstract Despite the fact that most sex toys are intended to be used on some of the most vulnerable parts of the body, the sex toy industry continues to operate with no oversight or safety regulation, which puts sex toy consumers at significant risk for both acute and chronic injuries. Therefore, it is necessary to […]

How to Abolish Gender

07.25.21

      I.         Purpose The present structure which dominates gender in our society, patriarchy, is incredibly oppressive, and calls to dismantle it have rung for generations. However, these calls are often entrenched in an oppressive gender binary. What if we did not stop at patriarchy and dismantled gender hierarchies entirely? This article does not intend to make a […]

Transgender Oklahomans Sound Off on the Difficulties Created by the Covid-19 Pandemic

07.25.21

The Covid-19 Pandemic has transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the world in 2020, with exacerbated hardships for transgender people in politically conservative states like Oklahoma due to regressive social policies. An abrupt halt to necessary resources, isolation from fellow transgender peers, and having to move back in with or spend […]

Let’s Call Chechnya’s Systematic Murder of LGBT+ Individuals What it Is

07.25.21

In 2018, Maksim Lapunov became one of the most widely known victims of a government-sanctioned purge of gay, bisexual, transgender, and other non-heterosexual men and those who did not conform to traditional gender norms in the Chechen Republic, Russia.[i] He alleged that for twelve days, the government of the Chechen Republic unlawfully detained him in Grozny, […]

Advocating for Intersectional Sex Worker Representation In Academia

07.20.21

The lives of sex workers and the obstacles they face are starkly unexplored in academic literature. Contrary to past connotations of sex work involving only prostitution, the digital age has inspired countless outlets for people to make money by selling their time, images, videos, or by webcamming (Amir, 2020). The normalization of sex work in […]

On Switzerland’s struggle with socio-political advance: the tedious path to the legalization of same-gender marriage

07.20.21

Introduction Switzerland is often viewed as a beacon of democracy and progress.[i] A half-direct democratic system allows the country’s citizens a high level of involvement in policy matters: as often as ten times a year, the Swiss population goes to the polls to vote about constitutional changes, initiatives and facultative referenda. In smaller cantons and local […]

Ontologies of Otherness

04.29.21

When I moved to Seoul in 2019, it marked a twenty-year homecoming. I came back to my father’s homeland not as a Korean but a gyopo, the name for us westernized sojourners, distinctively set apart from locals thanks to our loud tattoos and poor Korean speaking skills. Living in diaspora, you arrive everywhere hollow. Sometimes you […]

More Support is Needed for LGBT Senior Housing

04.28.21

Lisa, a sixty-four year old, Latina Lesbian, has been an advocate and provider of LatinX services at one of San Diego’s leading LGBT organizations for more than three decades. Until recently, Lisa was able to walk to work in the gayborhood of Hillcrest; however, after twenty-five years, her landlord decided to sell the home Lisa […]

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