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Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education is important for all individuals. Immigrant women and girls frequently experience barriers to accessing SRH services and encounter discrimination in educational settings. Thus, it is critical to evaluate if the needs of immigrant women and girls are met with the current SRH education. In this study, three focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with immigrant women (n = 10) living across Canada, with the goal of identifying key barriers and areas of improvement for the SRH curriculum. Our FGDs revealed four main themes: (1) barriers to accessing SRH education, (2) limitations of mainstream SRH, (3) alternative means of accessing SRH information, and (4) features of more inclusive SRH education. Main barriers to effective and inclusive SRH education in this group included language and cultural aspects. Moreover, the current Canadian SRH curriculum was experienced by participants as Western-centric, heteronormative, and disconnected from other aspects of health and wellness. Participants emphasized the need for consideration of safety and accessibility when creating educational spaces and resources. We recommend that our findings be used by the respective Minister of Education in each province of Canada, in order to improve Canadian SRH educational programmes and to better meet the needs of diverse populations. KEYWORDS: Anti-oppressive practices, community-led research, immigrant and newcomer health, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality education, women's health, Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education is well-known to be an effective intervention to improve sexual health and well-being, specifically when provided through comprehensive, inclusive, and trauma-informed programmes (Goldfarb & [...]

Since the start of the millennium, many Middle Eastern writers of a younger generation have struggled to gain critical attention and grow their readership because of their determination to tackle [...]

During the past several years, many politicians, organizations, community members, and other stakeholders have worked in coordinated and intentional ways to harm trans, nonbinary, and other gender-diverse people, especially youth. [...]

The inaugural Gerald Kraak anthology titled Pride and Prejudice (The Gerald Kraak Anthology: African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality) (2017) is a collection of poetry, fiction, journalism, photography, and scholarly writing that focuses on queer and other marginalised identities in Africa. The individual contributions place the queer cultural outsider at the centre of the text. The power of the anthology's collective voice challenges normative subjectivity and its practices of exclusion by showcasing the subjects' joy and suffering, and, through the collectivisation of individual experience, new possibilities arise for a recentred queer subjectivity that challenges imposed normative boundaries. The process of writing is a relatively private activity to explore and express identity and sexuality. In contrast to the privacy of writing is the act of sharing this writing with an audience that witnesses these private and often hidden identities and sexualities. This article focuses on how this anthologised collection of marginalised cultural 'others' shifts the borders of what is considered deviant by reading the entries through Judith Butler's concepts of 'legibility', where the outsider is placed at the narrative centre. Contribution This article contributes to studies on marginality, queer African literature, genre and anthologies., Author(s): Christopher W. Koekemoer (corresponding author) [1] Introduction The inaugural Gerald Kraak anthology titled Pride and Prejudice (The Gerald Kraak Anthology: African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality) (2017) [...]

STAYING FOR THE TRUTH The Gospel according to John tells us what happens when an itinerant preacher and prophet called Jesus of Nazareth is brought before the Roman governor, Pontius [...]

This essay examines the discourse around Mexican masculinity in the 1920s by looking at the figures of the repatriated migrant and the urban dandy of the period, the fifi. Using evidence from print culture, popular literature, and other sources, it explains how these masculine figures provoked anxieties about sexuality, work, and public space, as well as concerns about how to integrate American mass culture into revolutionary Mexican society. Though many observers saw repatriated migrants and fifis as potentially destructive to Mexico's body politic, others crafted cultural narratives that described how to integrate men's encounters with American culture into modern Mexican masculinity. Keywords: masculinity; gender; Mexico; 1920s; migrants Este ensayo examina el discurso sobre la masculinidad mexicana en la decada de 1920 a partir de las figuras del migrante repatriado y el galan urbano de la epoca, el fifi. Utilizando evidencia derivado de periodicos y revistas, la literatura popular y otras fuentes, explico como estas figuras masculinas provocaron ansiedades en torno a la sexualidad, el trabajo, el espacio publico asi como preocupaciones sobre como integrar la cultura popular de los estados unidos a la sociedad mexicana revolucionaria. Aunque muchos observadores vieron a los migrantes repatriados y los fifis como potencialmente destructivos para el cuerpo politico de Mexico, otros elaboraron narrativas culturales que describieron como integrar los encuentros de los hombres con la cultura de los estados unidos a la masculinidad mexicana moderna. Palabras clave: masculinidad; genero; Mexico; decada de 1920; migrantes, In July 1924, Mexico City's major newspapers reported that male students from the National Medical School and the National Preparatory School had attacked several 'pelonas'--Mexico's version of the flapper--dousing them [...]

LEX LAWSON'S MOTHER WAS WORRIED about what other people thought about her child growing up in Berea, Kentucky, in the 1980s. Lex, who is genderqueer, recalls their mother encouraging them [...]

This article examines Mark Aguhar's Tumblr posts, which facilitate acts of queer recognition, gesture, and futurity through Aguhar's visual art and poetry, in addition to offering quotidian ruminations on oppression, survival, and care. Aguhar engages in a 'Filipinx method,' a deployment of art, theory, and resistance executed by queer Filipinx artists and writers across the demarcations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Through an exploration of the critical connections between queer and disability justice and queer digital expression, Aguhar generates multidimensional methods for a transformative change that recognizes the vulnerability and viability of queer people of color., ON APRIL 14, 2011. THE TUMBLR USER MARKAGUHAR POSTED A TEXT PAINTING TO HER online portfolio on the Tumblr blog Mark Aguhar (see fig. 1). Rendered in purple and pink [...]

Snorri's Sturluson's thirteenth-century prose Edda contains two stories featuring a giant's daughter named Skadi and her dealings with the divine AEsir. (1) Although both episodes are relatively minor in the [...]

'What can any modest virtuous Lady see in a Blue-coat Boy, to be so very fond of him at first sight? I am really afraid, Ben, that you will be [...]

Groundbreaking studies on the intersections and divergences between African understandings of gender and European understandings of gender in Africa emerged in the 1980s and 1990s and have expanded greatly during [...]

Returning 'quite late' from a friend's house on a 'brilliant' moonlit night in January 1862, Emma Holmes of Charleston, South Carolina, encountered a Confederate officer who 'looked like a gentleman.' [...]

'Pixar has a girl problem. --Joel Stein, Time magazine (38) Until I visited Pixar's offices, I did not know that 12 -year-old boys were allowed to run major corporations. --Joel [...]

The early modern period witnessed a surge in European interest in cases of newborn-child murder. Beginning in the sixteenth century, infanticide became the object of intense literary, anthropological, and scientific curiosity and the target of a wide range of laws and prosecutions throughout Europe. Contemporary Jews shared this lewd fascination, engaging the image of the murderous parent in order to define, challenge, and redefine their own notions of civilization and gender and to tackle certain political and social issues, particularly the problem of feminine agency. This article offers a reading of some of these representations against the context of the dominant nonJewish discourses of the period, exploring the ways in which infanticide served Jewish authors as a testing ground for various, often conflicting understandings of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and womanhood. Key words: infanticide, monsters, maternity, gender, Monsters are creatures of the dark. They conceal themselves under children's beds or in women's closets, emerging only after we turn out the lights. At the same time, these shadowy [...]

Our knowledge of American women's experiences and understandings of sexuality in the past is limited by the reticence that surrounded the subject during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [...]

The history of sexuality in the United States is inextricably bound to the history of racialization. Conquest, slavery, voluntary migration, segregation, exclusion, stratification, detention, and civil rights struggles have shaped [...]

When John and Estelle published Intimate Matters twenty-five years ago, they hoped that it would spark new research in the then-emerging field of the history of sexuality. Their desire to [...]

I want to begin this reflection on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Intimate Matters to say, simply, what it must have meant in 1988 for a relatively new subfield to have [...]

I would like to thank Joanne Meyerowitz for organizing and inviting me to participate in this roundtable and for giving me the opportunity to reflect briefly on the importance of [...]

SEXUAL UNION, BY DESIGN, IS THE COMMENCEMENT of human society and the beginning of nature. The intercourse of Heaven and Earth balances the universe; intercourse of a man and a [...]

How is rape perceived and handled by members of the Dao and Hmong minority groups in Lao Cai, a northern province of Vietnam? How are cultural notions relating to sexuality, female virginity and marriage interpreted, played out and contested among victims' family members, their wider kin networks, and the authorities responsible for upholding the law at the grass-roots level? In particular, how is the social notion of honour used as a patriarchal tool in influencing decisions about whether or not to press charges against rapists or not? The results of fieldwork in Lao Cai during 2007 are reported. Keywords: gender, sexuality, rape, ethnic minorities, family honour, prosecution, Vietnam., During my fieldwork on rape in Vietnam's Lao Cai province in 2007, local officials, mostly members of the majority Kinh (1) ethnic group, often told me: 'Well, they will talk [...]

Recent scholarship in witchcraft studies has drawn greater attention to the constitutive role of sexual discourse in witch trials throughout early modern Europe--even in England, whose trials have generally been regarded as less lurid and sensationalist than those that took place in other European countries. This essay complements existing scholarship by proposing that we should likewise recognize that witchcraft discourse occupies a vital place within the history of sexuality. Examining a range of archival materials--witchcraft treatises, demonologies, trial depositions, popular pamphlets, and dramatic literature--reveals that beliefs and practices concerning witchcraft were the site of a complex discourse about sexuality, particularly regarding female erotic pleasure and women's sexual anatomy. The essay analyzes in detail the distinctively English juridical concern with searching a suspect's body for a witch's mark or supernumerary teat, and proposes that standard judicial procedures provided a permissive, even urgent context for investigating women's bodies and interrogating them about their erotic experiences. More broadly, the article argues that witchcraft discourse promoted the pursuit of sexual knowledge with regard to both sexes, legitimizing such inquiry through its affiliations with legal authority., Many persons of both sexes, unmindful of their own salvation and straying from the Catholic Faith, have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi.... Such devils hinder men from performing [...]

Abstract: This study investigated the relationship between sociosexuality--one's willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual activity--and heterosexual women and men's patterns of sexual arousal to stimuli varying by gender and relationship [...]