Greetings all! It’s been over a year since I last wrote so I thought it fitting to take things back to the beginning – the fundamentals, if you will – by expanding more on the topics of consent, autonomy, recognizing abusive behaviours in intimate relationships, you name it. Today’s topic is reproductive & sexual coercion/abuse. The …
Welcome back, everyone! We’re discussing an enraging and terrifying topic this week – female genital mutilation/cutting/circumcision (FGM/C). FGM/C is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injuries to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), FGM/C is a common cultural practice in some …
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Hello, everyone! So it’s been a month since you heard from me, life got in the way but I’m back now. Thank you for tuning right back in. Let’s start an important, complex, and necessary conversation about informed consent. Someone on Twitter wrote that there is no such thing as consensual sex because that would …