Happy Pride! A goal we made for ourselves for the summer was to get into pattern design and start uploading them to Spoonflower (another Print on Demand site that specializes in fabric & wallpaper). I asked a friend if there were any patterns she wished existed that she hadn’t seen before and she said, D&D Dice! I had a lot of fun drawing the dice and quickly realized this would be perfect design to adapt …Read More
Tag: sexuality
New Merch: You Could Never Be Ice Cream, You’re Too Hot
Back in our early days of social justice work when most of what we knew about was the forms of oppression specific to women, an important part of our journey to empowerment was establishing for ourselves the idea that we could enjoy and appreciate our appearance, and that of others, while still treating them as a human. This value was particularly strong in the social circles we frequented but no where was it stronger between …Read More
New Merch: “Not Just a Phase” Bisexuality Pride
For a while now, I’ve been meaning to make some merch using different pride flag colors. It seemed fitting for the first design to be the bisexual pride flag colors, blue, purple, and pink, since I’m bisexual and the friend who requested this design is also bisexual. I made a version with the words “Not Just a Phase” to honor the specific scrutiny bisexual folks face about their sexuality, but I also made a version …Read More
Interview for Secular Sexuality
CN: brief discussion of sexuality, sexism influenced medical neglect, reproductive disorders, and disability. Remember my interview about sex and disability last month on the podcast Into Your Body? Story time: Before that podcast was recorded, Vi La Bianca, a previous guest blogger for Yopp, invited me to come onto her youtube show Secular Sexuality to discuss sex and disability. To be honest, I felt nervous about interviewing about a topic I don’t particularly specialize in– …Read More
Podcast Interview on Sex & Disability
A few weeks ago I got together with my friend DJ and we had a conversation about disability and sex for his podcast Into Your Body. Dj’s podcast explores some progressive takes on sexuality and your relationship with your body, particularly exploring how these topics intersect with particular marginalizations. This was my very first podcast and my first recorded interview and I had a really good time talking about some of the deeper nuances of …Read More
Could It Be My Birth Control?: The Intrauterine Diaries
Today’s guest post is for anyone who has struggled with unpleasant symptoms and body changes and wondered to themselves, could it be my birth control? This post is even more for you if this question was met with dismissal and doubts when brought to medical professionals, which is unfortunately too common of a pattern.
Untangling Sexualization from Objectification
When you are going through the process of untangling sexualization from objectification, sexual empowerment from sexual exploitation, it can be hard to determine whether the sexual expression you’re seeing is harmful or not.