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Strategic Communications for Promoting School Sex Education Reform in Massachusetts to Combat Gender-Based Violence and Toxic Masculinity
By Harry Chiu **** H.673/S.318, “An Act Relative to Healthy Youth,” is a proposed Massachusetts bill that aims to reform sex education in K-12 schools. Based on current research in gender-based violence prevention in schools, this bill would be an impactful and positive step toward reducing gender-based violence in schools and promoting healthier gender identities […]
FAILING TO RECOGNIZE OBJECTIFICATION AND SEXUALIZATION OF WOMEN AS SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION: WORKPLACE HARASSMENT REFORMS IN AUSTRALIA
by Sandra Amankaviciute and Monika Zalnieriute “Small Breasts, Huge Thighs and a Big Red Box.” No, this sexualized description is not of an X-rated video, but of Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, made while she was in office in 2013. And it is not an anonymous troll tweet, but a menu displayed […]
Justice Amy Coney Barrett and What it Means to Have a Feminist Judiciary
By Shilpa Sadhasivam Watching the Supreme Court’s political bent swing from conservative-leaning to firmly conservative was a resounding blow to political leftists. The rapid replacement of revered feminist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett created great anxiety regarding Roe v. Wade, Obergefell v. Hodges, and other civil rights issues. Even deeper, her confirmation […]