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The Confidence Gap

By Katty Kay, Claire Shipman — 2014

Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality.

Meredith Ralston

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The Cornel West Reader

Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era.

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Fight against Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

United Nations, New York, 10 December 2009 - Panel discussion organized by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights.

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Audre Lorde Reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde reads the essay “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power.” There are some ad-libs, but this reading is pretty faithful to the final text, which can be found in Lorde’s essay collection Sister Outsider, among other anthologies. One of the most important essays of the 20th century.

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women.

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Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes.

Jaclyn Friedman

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How Telling Our Silenced Stories Can Change the World | Anne Hallward | TEDxDirigo

Shame is at the intersection of individual psychology healing and social change. Clinically, when we follow the path of our shame, we experience the greatest healing, and culturally, when we move past the power of shame we can act together to improve civil rights for all.

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The New Male Sexuality, Revised Edition

The New Male Sexuality addresses the most urgent questions of men today--and of the women who love them.

Bernie Zilbergeld

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

adrienne maree brown

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Conscious Sex - David Deida Live in LA

Conscious Sex is a powerful workshop with David Deida capture in TV broadcast quality.

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