Gender in Media Diversity Journal: Gender, Media and Sport

Caster Semenya: A Girl of Two Parts by Jennifer Elle Lewis

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Semenya

So this was pretty appalling. Curious as to how they will test her “gender?” Will they make her walk in high heels while touching one finger and then the other to her nose? Or will they see if she can apply lipstick without a mirror? With her toes? Upside down? Ah, the possibilities. Semenya told [...]

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Long After

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Catalina de Erauso

Thanks to my friend Soraya Field Fiorio, I came to be acquainted with Catalina de Erauso, or the Lieutenant Nun, the swashbuckling, cross-dressing pirate. Ms. Erauso was born in 1585. At the age of 15 she escaped from the nunnery to which she had been sent, revamped her habit into men’s clothing, and boarded a [...]

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Fistula, Childbirth and GBV

Last year I saw A Walk to Beautiful, a gorgeous documentary about the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, and the women in Ethiopia who travel for days to reach it. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital was founded in 1974 by obstetrician-gynecologist, Drs. Catherine Hamlin, and her late husband, Reginald. The pair restored the lives of over [...]

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Lotusland

Lotusland: noun an idyllic realm of contentment & self-indulgence. Lotusland is a whimsical garden created by Madame Ganna Walska in Montecito, California.  When new world tycoons tried to re-create staid old-world garden estates, Ms. Walska created an entirely new world. Her masterpiece is an eclectic fantasyland of unusual plants in epic proportions, with giant clam [...]

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Too much?

Probably. Ok, totally. I am not one for “Bread and Puppet” let alone “Bread and Vulva.” Although I am pro-positive feminine sexualities, a better awareness of our lady bits and I support whoever came up with this. It’s just…I just…uh… It is great to publicize how our bodies work and to do so without alarming [...]

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Hannah Höch

The day my Grandmother died, I ventured out into a late NYC spring, wandered around SoHo, and found myself at a “be-in” in the streets around Grand and Wooster. Of course it wasn’t as real as one would have hoped, but somehow that day, New York was transformed with energy, literally pulsing into the streets [...]

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This is my skeleton, this is the skin it’s in

“…though they of different sexes be, Yet on the whole they are the same as we, For those that have the strictest searchers been, Find women are but men turned outside in” -quoted by Thomas Laqueur (1) Ok. So we’ve laughed at  Va-jay-jays. We are post-the-Eve Ensler of the Vagina Monologues (passé no matter what [...]

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The Internet and Women’s Sexuality

How can regulating online content affect ways women use the internet, its impact on their sexual expression, sexual health practices and their assertion of sexual rights? The invention of the Internet has revolutionized notions about what is private and what is public, as one can enter this public domain from the privacy of his or [...]

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