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On Thursday, a friend messaged me to ask how I was holding up “re the whole JK Rowling clusterfuck”. I looked at their text for a long time before I was able to reply, because even telling them how I felt utterly impossible. I didn’t know how I felt. For the last few weeks I’ve been powered by anger and frustration and a determination to change the world, but right now? Right now I just feel numb.
Recently a friend tweeted that they couldn’t believe that people still say clichéd sexist things like ‘come on, smile’. I laughed. I know their point was to express amazement at seeing this blatant sexism play out in front of them, but their tweet made me remember that not everyone has to face this kind of misogyny every single day. I think that sometimes cis men can forget what it’s like to be a cis woman or a trans or non-binary person who is subject to misogyny – their privilege makes them oblivious to the everyday misogyny that is my reality.
Black lives matter, and there is no sexual liberation until BIPOC have sexual liberation. I didn’t want to keep writing about sex this week without acknowledging that BIPOC are the reason we have body positive, sex positive spaces. I know I have a lot of work to do when it comes to learning to be anti-racist, so today I’m taking a break from posting new content to highlight some BIPOC sex educators that any white people reading my blog should follow.
A trans guy makes his colleague wear a butt plug during post-work drinks, because he knows it makes him hard. Ok, fine – it makes him hard too.
May was Masturbation Month, but we’re in 2020 so obviously COVID has crept into some of the sex-positive shit I’m sharing this month. While the global pandemic itself can fuck right off, I do like that we’re taking time to acknowledge that just because sex toy sales are sky-rocketing around the world, it’s totally ok if you have absolutely no interest in getting off right now. Oh yeah, and I’m still angry about transphobia, so that’s another theme in this month’s round-up.