Category: Feminism
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Men and Sex, it’s complicated
Men Love Sex? Men and sex it’s more complicated than we all like to admit. For some men, sex can be fun and exciting. For others, it can be stress-inducing or downright terrifying. I identify as a man and know a thing or two about sex (Maybe I don’t know Jack, you’d have to ask…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic Computer-generated text, images, video, and audio will transform the way countless industries do business, the most bullish investors believe, boosting efficiency everywhere from the creative arts, to law, to computer programming. But the working conditions of data labelers reveal…
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The Truth about Straight Relationships(And what we can learn from LGBTQ Couples)
Dating, relationships, and marriage are things that most humans do. These things, at times, are fun, exciting, and meaningful. Conversely, they can be challenging and downright dangerous for some people. I’m a licensed social worker who has worked with countless young men and women. It seems that sexism and patriarchy, in many ways, can hinder…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
An elegant portrait of a pole dancer in Oman celebrates a woman’s strength in nature “She’s providing a safe and fun space for women,” Ali said. “She’s also promoting body positivity…as well as helping to create a sense of community among her students. I think it’s really great how she is helping to normalize pole…
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The Evolved Man of the WeeK: Frederick Douglass
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s Evolved Man of the Week profiles. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure who embodies what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes…
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Rejected!
Rejection is a mutha! I remember my first ‘professional’ job at Chicago Public Schools. I was twenty-nine years old and still dealing with significant mental health issues. During my year at that job, I was constantly late, had terrible time management, and lacked passion for my work. In December 2012, I was laid off. It…
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The Truth About the Friend Zone
This was a lesson in friendshipI stress in this sentenceShould women and men be friends first?And then slip?My pen drips as I scribble my thoughts on thin stripsOf devotion What is the Friend-Zone? For all you cool kids out there, this is what UrbanDictionary says: “A mythical place where misogynists go to when a woman doesn’t want their penis. or …
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Boys Do Cry
“They say a man not supposed to cryTell me why these tears keep fallin’?We die to live, but we live to dieI could feel my heartbeat often” – Black Cloud, by Kevin Gates I recently went down a Reddit rabbit hole. A user posed a question that may seem like bs to some, but it…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
No U.S. Invasion of Haiti! The U.S. Government is solely interested in exploiting the Haitian people and preventing them from exercising its sovereignty. It has been this way for over 200 years, ever since the Haitian Revolution, the world in the first successful slave rebellion to establish an independent republic. #Haitian #UnitedStates #Military #Intervention CEO Pay Has Soared…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
It’s a Girl (Fascist)! It’s tempting to say that her position as a woman leader should be considered irrelevant, given her and her party’s vile anti-immigrant, nationalist, racist, anti-LGBTQ+ politics. But ignoring her womanhood misses some crucial points about her political ideology. Being a woman — a white woman, that is — is not in…
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