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Sex Positive and Hyper Sexualization in Sports: Is there a way to negotiate?

Team Queer blog post by La Macha, December 10, 2008 - 11:29am; tagged sex positive, sexuality, sports.

One of the biggest issues for women athletes these days is the extreme hyper-sexualization many sports require women to participate in while competing at a highly advanced level. For example, car racer Danica Patrick has been very straightforward (and quite successful) about embracing her more 'feminine' side while letting her racing skills speak for themselves. 08_danica-patrick_09.jpg

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Star light, star [Susie] Bright!

Love / Shove blog post by Kelsey Wallace, November 12, 2008 - 2:24pm; tagged Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture, lecture series, sexuality, Susie Bright.

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Writer, teacher, audio-show host, performer, and all-around badass feminist Susie Bright is speaking this Tuesday as a continuing part of the Bitch Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture lecture series!

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Coming out (and out and out)

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 13, 2008 - 2:36pm; tagged butch, coming out, gender identity, genderqueer, listen and love it, masculinity, midwest, podcasts, queer, sexuality, trans identity, transgender, transsexual.

Lately I've been thinking about the process of coming out and identities/shifting, and how for so many of us it's an ongoing/lifetime process. In part because we as individuals change, and/or in part because our environment changes, and/or in part because our identities can't be read on the outside, and/or because some of us feel the most comfortable in those in-between spaces yet sometimes feel compelled to "pick a side" (so to speak/referencing here the dualism so prevalent in mainstream Western culture), because the struggle to have our identities validated (or even finding language to define ourselves and our experiences) simply becomes too much work. But then when we "pick that side," we might eventually feel the weight of that boxed-in identity start to hurt, so we begin the process of coming out again... Or geez, to put it most simply, because things just change... 

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And speaking of sex

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 11, 2008 - 11:41am; tagged feminisms, gender, international, magazines, Pakistan, sex, sexuality.

A new publication about sex/sexuality in Pakistani society from a feminist and gender-inclusive perspective has entered the publishing world. Read Bitch contributor Sarah Seltzer's interview with Chay magazine founders Kyla Pasha and Sarah Suhail in the current issue of INTHEFRAY magazine, an online magazine focused on identity and community.

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And now for a sexy conference

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 11, 2008 - 11:28am; tagged body positivity, conferences, events, gender, genderqueer, kink, queer, relationships, sex, sex play, sex positivity, sexuality, Sexy Spring, STI, transgender.

This weekend, June 13th to June 15th is Sexy Spring, Minneapolis's radical, sex/body positive, sex education skill-share and conference.

The event is focused on exploring the ways sex, sexuality, relationships, our bodies, and our choices affect our lives. It's a weekend full of workshops, discussions, play, demonstrations, crafting, art shows, communal meals, telling stories, and sex/body performances and dancing.

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"If a femme falls in the forest..."

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 2, 2008 - 7:02pm; tagged documentary, events, femme, film, gender identity, movies, queer, sexuality.

This past weekend, we at Bitch were honored to be a community partner in Portland's Queer Documentary Film Festival's screening of FtF: From Female to Femme. QDOC is the only festival in the United States (and apparently one of two worldwide) devoted to queer documentaries, and FtF: From Female to Femme is – to my knowledge – the first feature length documentary that explores the experiences and identities of femme as a queer identity. This lack of femme analysis is a little alarming, considering the breadth and depth of analyses focused on butch, FtM, and other masculine(/queer) identities. But then again, as books like Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity illustrate, femme identities and femininity in general continue to be misunderstood and maligned (and in some senses, masculinity so fetishized), so it also makes sense. 

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Busting the "Technical Virgin" Myth

Love / Shove blog post by Miriam Wolf, May 21, 2008 - 12:07pm; tagged Guttmacher, sex, sexuality, STD, teen sex.
For months now, articles about our "hook-up culture" have touted the fact that teens have been engaging in oral and anal sex instead of vaginal sex so that they can still call themselves virgins. The trouble is, it turns out that so-called fact is actually a myth.
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News flash: boys like relationships

Love / Shove blog post by Lisa Jervis, February 15, 2008 - 3:23pm; tagged masculinity, sexuality, stereotypes.

Cheers to a new study reporting that, contrary to age-old stereotypes about teenage boys as indiscriminate horndogs, 16-year-old boys' primary motivations for dating are that they "really like the person" (via the New York Times health blog).

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The Great Cover-Up

Can High Necklines Cure Low Morals?
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Article by Shira Tarrant, Illustrated by Liza Corbett, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged asking for it, fashion, modesty, moralizing, promiscuity, sexuality, sluttiness, virgin/whore, young women.

In an era when it’s possible to turn on the television on any given night and see a clutch of bikini-clad women crawling over their male prey (ABC’s The Bachelor), a sex-toy demonstration (HBO’s Real Sex), or a 9-year-old showing off her moves on her parents’ personal stripper pole (E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians), Wendy Shalit’s assertion that modesty has made a comeback seems a little, well, optimistic.

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Hog Heaven

Ariel Levy on Female Chauvinist Pigs and the Rise of Raunch Culture
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An interview with Ariel Levy by Andi Zeisler, appeared in issue Fun & Games; published in 2005; filed under Books; tagged Ariel Levy, beauty standards, body image, chauvinism, gender roles, objectification, porn, post feminism, sex, sex industry, sex objects, sexuality, stereotypes.

You’ll recognize the female silhouette that leans against the title on the cover of Ariel Levy’s new book, Female Chauvinist Pigs. She’s the girl who in recent years has made the move from the mud flaps of big rigs right into pop culture, gracing trucker caps, baby tees, and gold necklaces as an emblem of sexy, empowered ­womanhood. Or at least that’s what she’d like you to believe. But Levy doesn’t buy it, and Female Chauvinist Pigs offers her opinions on why this new symbol of postfeminism—the girl gone wild, the party-like-a-porn-star striver, the woman who populates HBO’s “educational” reality shows like Cathouse and Pornucopia—isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as she thinks she is.

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