A while ago (see my entry for Oct 7, 2005), a reader in Canada brought my attention to Breast of Canada, a fundraising calendar. Then, this weekend, I was alerted by another reader to yet another Canada-based breast-related item of interest: TERA, the Topfree Equal Rights Association, which “helps women who encounter difficulty going without […]

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These are a few of my favorite new finds:
• information about the clitoris
• pictures of vulvas
• more pictures of vulvas (and click on the link to the survey, too)
• hilarious sex-positive cursewords
• a very sexy sex ed site, with a focus on safer sex
• a really cool South and Southeast Asian sex resource center
And speaking […]

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I just got back from my East Coast sojourn today. I spent a few days at the Haitian Studies Association conference at U.Mass - Boston, where I presented my piece for Waking Up American. The weather in Boston was bleak and rainy, but the conference-goers were upbeat and presented some remarkable scholarship. Next I went […]

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Later on this week, I’m headed to Boston to present at the Haitian Studies Association’s annual conference at the University of Massachusetts. I’ve never been to one of their conferences before; I’ll be speaking about my publication in Waking Up American.
After the conference, I’m going to Providence, RI, to interview the inimitable designer Liz […]

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