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The Vulva Quartet Game is a card game similar to 'Go Fish!'. Collect as many sets of four cards from the different categories as you can – the person with the most sets wins. There are lots of interesting subjects, from 'Pubic Hair' to 'Labia Shape' to 'Facts & Wonders', with fun and informative facts on each card. This is an educational ....

This book aims to open up the conversation about a topic that is still surrounded by taboo and shame. By showing diversity, educating ourselves on anatomy and sexual health and openly talking about our experiences and our insecurities, we can change the way we look at our bodies – and the bodies of others.Let’s celebrate this wonderful ....

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane ....

How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From her parents, she internalized ....

Feminist Parenting is a collection of writings from women around the globe who offer unique standpoints on feminist theory, intersectional feminist parenting, and empowerment, through poetry, research, and prose. Global perspectives include Anwar Shaheen’s research on parenting inequality in Pakistan, Marlene Pomrenke’s examination of ....

Natascha Kampusch, selbst immer wieder im Visier von Cyberattacken, hat gelernt, auch mit ungerechtfertigter Kritik zu leben. Wortlos über sich ergehen lassen will sie die jedoch nicht. Reflektiert und ungefiltert führt sie uns die sozialen Abgründe von Cybergewalt vor Augen. Diskriminierung im Internet ist längst kein Randphänomen mehr, ....

Flora Tristan was one of the first women radicals to draw clear connections between the plight of disaffected workers and powerless women. Active in the 1830s and 1840s, and regarded as something of a pariah, she is best known for her book Workers’ Union, an account of the conditions of women in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France.

The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions—deception, wage-stealing and money skimming are rife; adequate medical care is horrifyingly absent; and informed consent is depressingly rare. In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis brings a fresh ....

How the law harms sex workers—and what they want insteadDo you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive—and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly ....

One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the ....