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Menschen, die sagen, sie würden nicht sexistisch oder rassistisch sein, glaube ich meist nicht. Ich muss jeden Tag gegen meinen inneren Rassismus und Sexismus usw kämpfen. Wie einen Muskel muss ich aktiv mit Reflexion und innerer Korrektur dagegen antrainieren.

Tweets From Journelle

@journelle on Twitter

Her exposure to screen time at such a young age took all the novelty away. There’s really nothing special about having a phone, and she knows it. Like any new toy, it gets boring pretty quickly.

What Happened When I Gave My Toddler an iPhone

Anonymous Panda

Attitudes towards sex work and gay sex have varied from culture to culture, but stigma has consistently dogged both. Even today, when sex work is discussed in the media, the male sex worker is almost always excluded. The narrative of the sexually exploited ‘prostituted woman’ dominates the rhetoric of those who would abolish sex work. No space is given to discussing the men who sell sex and the women who buy it. Why? Because as Jack Saul discovered in 1889, the abolitionists and those who wish to ‘rescue’ sex workers will disregard that which challenges the narrative of the abused victim.

A Curious History of Sex

Kate Lister

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