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The Reality of Desire

In this episode, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, “A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten”

September 6, 2023 • by Claire Potter

In this episode of Why Now?, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, "A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten"...

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A Feminine Imaginary Without the Eye

Audio Pornography and Representational Politics

June 15, 2018 • by Kiyomi Ren Mino

Pornography follows us everywhere. What was once confined to stashed magazines and adult stores now streams freely on our laptops and phones. Motivated by what the freedom of pornography means for women’s liberation, I provide a commentary to Drucilla Cornell’s chapter, “Pornography’s Temptation” from her book, The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography & ...

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Why Can’t Women Bridge the Left-Right Divide?

Reflections on the 1984 Indianapolis Anti-Pornography Ordinance

May 23, 2018 • by Claire Potter

When did coalitional organizing between feminists and conservative women become impossible? I’m not sure, but as a feminist there is one place and time that I remember vividly: Indianapolis in the spring of 1984. There, led by Mayor William Hudnut, III Republican politician Beulah Coughenour and local movement conservatives, that city ...

Why Can’t Women Bridge the Left-Right Divide?

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Libidinal Ecology: Sex and the Anthropocene (II)

January 26, 2016 • by Margret Grebowicz

The May 2015 issue of National Geographic features an article entitled, “Quest for a Superbee.” This piece is illustrated by a series of extreme photographic close-ups of bees with pieces of technology attached to their bodies. One caption reads: “A syringe places a minute droplet of phenotrin on ...