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Better SEX EDUCATION now!
I really think the demystification of the body is important. We're taught from a very young age to be ashamed of our bodies, and instead we should be taught to be proud of them. I think Sex Education is really about taking control of our bodies and treating them with respect - and that means protecting them from disease and physical harm. Young girls especially really need the encouragement to take control to protect themselves and their bodies (against rape, abuse, etc), and also the confidence to love themselves and to demand respect for their bodies - both self respect and respect by anyone who they are sexually engaged with. What could be more empowering then that? I only wish the education system thought more like us...
Because no one should have to deal with a Sexually Transmitted Infection or an unwanted teen pregnancy.
Because there is no cure for HIV/AIDS.
Because every girl and every woman deserve the right to choose who does and does not touch their body.
Because every person deserves respect and love regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender, sex, or class.
Because teens are having sex whether we want to believe it or not.
Because these teenagers deserve the right to proper sexual health education
Because 'Abstinence Only Until Marraige' programs DO NOT WORK.
Because sex and sexuality lie at the core of every human being.
Because we can choose enlightenment over ignorance.
Better SEX EDUCATION Now!
"The Only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform." Alfred Kinsey
"Feminism is the Radical Notion that Women are People."
"Passive Racism is the complicity with someone else's Racism."
"When you don't acknowledge the suffering of a people, you no longer acknowledge their humanity"
"No one is Free until All of us are Free."
you are JENNY! you are sweet, shy, and innocent,
but you've got a darker, sexier side...and
you cant hold it in forever! you're the
closet freak of the group!
Which Character from The L Word are You???
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This clip from "In & Out" with Kevin Kline is soooo funny. For all those who daily stuggle with your "masculinity" or "femininity" and who daily think FUCK IT! ..
"Whatever you do... DANCE!"
How to make a jenna
Ingredients:
5 parts pride
1 part courage
5 parts energy
Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little lustfulness if desired!
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My Interests

Books
Social Justice
My degree in Sociology and Sexual Diversity Studies
Sex(uality)
Gender Issues
Gardening
Feminism
Music
Writing
Queer As Folk
The L Word
Concerts
Dancing to Retro80s music
Sloooooan
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Downtown Toronto
Angelina Jolie's work with the UN

I'd like to meet:

Gloria Steinem
Virginia Woolf
Alfred Kinsey
The Marquis de Sade
Kate Hudson
Courtney Love
Rachel Shelley
Madonna

And anyone who may resemble in either intellect, wit, charm and/or looks any of the above people.

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And remember kids... "All Gender Is Performative."
Judith Butler

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Music:

Which Rock Chick Are You?

Marilyn Manson
Haw(t)ksley Workman
Sloan
Beck
Scissor Sisters
Stone Temple Pilots
The Black Crowes
No Doubt
The Arcade Fire
Hole
Thrush Hermit
the dears
The Used
Marilyn Manson
Taking Back Sunday
Sarah Slean
Depeche Mode
Retro 80s Music
Metric
The Trews

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The Scissor Sisters make me sooooooooo happy!

Movies:

The Rules of Attraction (is the best movie ever)
My one true love thus far
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Quills
Angels in America
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Dreamers
Lolita
Gia
Velvet Goldmine
Tipping the Velvet
Mona Lisa Smile
Elizabeth
The Importance of Being Earnest
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
War and Peace
Love Actually
About a Boy
High Fidelity
Closer
Kinsey
The Truman Show
Girl Interrupted,
Which Girl Interrupted character are you?
Susanna Kaysen
You are the main character, a Girl, Interrupted. You have a borderline personality and were admitted to Claymore after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. You ended being up a successful writer after your release, just like Sylvia Plath.

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Television:

The L Word

Queer As Folk

The Office
Will & Grace
House
Grey's Anatomy
Without a Trace

Books:

"She may, in fact, be as nice as she can be, but as soon as she says CATCH ME IF YOU CAN I'M SO FREE THIS IS MY LIFE AND THE REST CAN FUCK OFF AND DIE -- as soon as she lays down the option of my way or the highway, it's amazing how quickly everyone finds her difficult, crazy, a nightmare: a BITCH.

The Rules of Attraction
The Vagina Monologues
Invisible Monsters
Prozac Nation
Bitch
The Bell Jar
Slaughterhouse Five
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Glamorama
Choke
Lolita
Skipped Parts
Fall on your Knees
White Noise
Kiss Me Judas
Valley of the Dolls
American Psycho
The Women's Room
Survivor
Looking for Alibrandi
White Teeth

Heroes:

My Mom
Madonna
John Cameron Mitchell
Alfred Kinsey
Robin Milhausen
Gloria Steinam
Zelda Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Wurtzel

My Blog

A few of my favourite quotes.

..> "We're all sisters under the mink, honey."-Frances Piper-"Don't dream it, be it."-Dr. Frank N' Furter-"One is not born, but becomes a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate dete...
Posted by empower girls on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:15:00 PST

NO MEANS have aNOther drink.

This week Bluenotes stores were forced to pull one of their shirts from stores. The shirt in question made light of the Canadian Federation of Students' anti-rape campaign slogan "No Means No."&...
Posted by empower girls on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:05:00 PST

Rape - it happens more often then you think.

"A woman is raped every 17 minutes in this country and the crimes are committed by men that we know and are tied to...husbands, men we work with...and we pay absolutely no attention to that." (source:...
Posted by empower girls on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:06:00 PST

What if...

We refused to take it anymore!?!?!? IT COULD BE REVOLUTIONARY.
Posted by empower girls on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

Whores and dykes

"Men who yell at women will often call them a "whore" and a "dyke" in the same breath. How is it that a woman can be simultaneously accused of having too much sex with men (whore) and too little...
Posted by empower girls on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:42:00 PST

Bitch

I'm a bitch, I'm a bitchOh the bitch is backStone cold sober as a matter of factI can bitch, I can bitch`Cause I'm better than youIt's the way that I moveThe things that I do -Sometimes I want to smas...
Posted by empower girls on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:22:00 PST

Girls are our Future

"With regard to a girls' movement, it's genunine only if we truly listen to girls, even when they reveal that they actually like Barbie and boy-and beauty-crazy teen magazines and giggle during menarc...
Posted by empower girls on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:23:00 PST

Gender and Sex: High School Style

I have always been a HUGE fan of gurl.com, but I am absolutely astounded and impressed beyond belief with their newest contribution: http://www.gurl.com/findout/guides/articles/0,,605406_702673 -1,00.h...
Posted by empower girls on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:19:00 PST

to quote Jenny Schecter

Jenny:"Oh fuck off, Mark. It is not my job to make you a better man and I don't give a shit if I've made you a better man. It's not a fucking woman's job to be consumed and invaded and spat out so tha...
Posted by empower girls on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:07:00 PST

Because

BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our own waysBECAUSE we wanna make it easier for girls to see/hear each other's wor...
Posted by empower girls on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:04:00 PST