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Every Body is Julie Cohen's revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. Only in theaters June 30.

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"The Right to Sex" Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent

Jennifer Szalai The New York Times
An essay collection centering on issues facing feminism today, the author calls on the movement to be “relentlessly truth-telling, not least about itself,” focusing on consent, intersectionality, misogyny, gendered violence, and other topics.

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Women’s Political Activism in Palestine

Mark Griffiths LSE Review of Books
A deep look at how Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal forms of everyday political activism and resistance. The reviewer considers the book among the finest social scientific works on contemporary Palestine in recent years.

What Do Swing Women Voters Want?

Karen Nussbaum The American Prospect
There’s an appetite for progressive policies — but it’s complicated out there, and we need to engage voters one-on-one. There is a narrow path to beating Trump in 2020, and it goes in part through these swing women voters.

Queer and Trans Youth and the Transformative Power of the Arts

Sojn Boothroyd Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Creativity and art-making can be a medium for personal transformation by connecting us to our authentic selves. Who am I? Who am I becoming? What do I think and feel? What is my pain and what are my desires?

I’m Trans, and I Don’t Care If We Were ‘Born This Way’

Shon Faye The Guardian
What does being a trans person in a transphobic society produce? Too often, it’s still violence, prejudice and discrimination. Lady Gaga told trans people we “were born to survive”. On the contrary, for better or worse our survival is dependent on the support and solidarity of others.
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