REAL SEX
Helen Frost recounts when her sexual pleasure turned into pain, and the way back to sex beyond penetration
Lives
PEOPLE FROM THE INTERNET
"It wasn’t just sex—though often it was—but unlikely collisions of humanity that interested me." A personal essay by Jodie Shupac
A GRAPHIC ESSAY
Michelle Martin and Hannah Schneider illustrate their experiences of street harassment and sexual assault in Edmonton—the worst city in Canada to be a woman
WOMEN WHO ABORT
I have never felt like I should say, “I decided to have an abortion because,” or, “I had to have an abortion because.” I have only ever said, “I had an abortion.” Katie Lew on writing beyond choice
SURGERY
"Are you getting the surgery?" A collaborative video series by Sarah Hill, Creighton Baxter, and Bug Davidson examines the coercive questioning of trans* bodies
WILD ACTS
"The identities encoded in our physical selves affect our politics, our viewpoints, and the ways that we interact with the world." Kaleigh Trace reflects on disability, sex, and the politics of our bent desires
THAT STAYED
How do we find the words to express sexual trauma, when traditional "rape narratives" don't seem to apply? An intimate dialogue between two friends