Stigma Shame and Sexuality Series
Welcome to Gender Across Borders’ series on stigma, shame, and sexuality, cross-posted with RH Reality Check and in partnership with Ipas.
This series addresses stigma. The bulk of the series focuses on abortion, but there are also pieces on sex work, queerness, sluttiness, and more. They are as follows:
Tuesday, 9/20
- The Fence, Wendy Ortiz
- Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality: A Reflection on Abortion, Leila Hessini
- The Hegemony of ‘LGBT,’ Judith Avory Faucette
- A Day in the Life of a Web Cam Model, Rosanna Spicer
- A Pastor’s Daughter, Taonga Lisulo
- Studying Down: Thoughts on Sex Work, Steinem, and Self-Representation, Melissa Petro
Wednesday, 9/21
- Abortion, Small Towns, and Young Lives, Paige Johnson
- Oh, The Things These Socks Have Seen, Lindsay Smith
- Ester’s Eyes: Returning from Uganda’s War a Bush Wife, Lauren Wolfe
- The “H” Word, Sarah Elspeth Patterson
- Pivotal Positions: Transforming Abortion Provider Stigma, Jennifer Coletti
- Navigating Sin and Karma in Thailand, Santi Leksakun
Thursday, 9/22
- An Open Letter to My Mother, Jessica Borusky
- Late One Night, Gemma Mason
- What We Can Learn From “Pro-Life” Patients, Kate Cockrill
- Abortion On Demand and Without Apology, Sunsara Taylor
- Institutionalized Stigma in Ghana, Jessica Mack
- Abortion in Malta: When Silence Kills, Marie Anne Zammit
Pivotal Positions: Transforming Abortion Provider Stigma
by Stigma Shame and Sexuality Series, Gender Across Borders
September 22, 2011 - 9:40am (Print)
Few of us would sign up for a job that would pose risks to our personal safety and our family’s safety. Yet that is exactly what many—if not most—health-care providers sign up for when they decide to deliver abortion care in the United States.
Navigating Sin and Karma in Thailand
by Stigma Shame and Sexuality Series, Gender Across Borders
September 22, 2011 - 9:35am (Print)
Sex for young girls in Thailand is a very controversial topic, obstructed in discussion by the belief that a girl should be extremely careful about her manner, behavior, and reputation.
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