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Online pornography and sex education: Reflections on practice in Poland and the US
By Kevicha Echols
Kevicha Echols reflects on porn literary and sex education for young people at a IASSCS session, comparing the sharings with what she discovered through the EROTICS research in the US.
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EroTICs researchers debate the net and sexuality 2.0. in Madrid
By Kateřina Fialová
The EroTICs researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the USA will be presenting their groundbreaking research on sexuality and the Internet in Madrid at the VIII International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference on July 9.
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World Pulse starts campaign on universal access
By Grady Johnson
World Pulse, the authority on all things woman, has recently launched an action blogging campaign to promote universal access to the internet. This author is tempted to sue them.
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Gender and citizenship in the information society
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Arpita Joshi reports on a recent workshop organized by IT for Change, her home organization, in April 2011 in New Delhi. The workshop was the part of Asia-wide research programme 'Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society (CITIGEN)' and brought together researchers, scholars and practitioners to share their views on democracy and women's participation, new articulations of citizenship…
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Pakistan: Count me IN!! Something I can’t unthink now...
By Nighat Dad
Nighat Dad shares her experience from the Count me IN! Conference organized by CREA, an international, feminist, human rights organisation, in April 2011, in Kathmandu. The Conference brings annually together women who have not been counted in - sex workers, disabled, single, young, lesbian and HIV-positive women, and trans people from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, to discuss…
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Gay Girl in Damascus is actually Straight Man in Scotland
By Grady Johnson
If you saw the headline you have no doubt already heard the news that Gay Girl in Damascus was totally a dude. I know, right?
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Checkin from the Human Rights Council, a new and complex universe!
By Marina Maria
Marina Maria representing the APC's EroTICs project at the 17th session of UN Human Rights Council shares her experiences from the mission to 'a new and complex universe'.
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Internet regulations can benefit from cross-sectoral conversations, says Marina Maria at the Human Rights Council
By Kateřina Fialová
Marina Maria, a member of the Brazil EroTICs research team, was one of the panellists of the 'Internet rights are human rights' event co-organized by the APC with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the Human Rights Council’s 17th session in Geneva on June 3. Due to time limitations, she was not able to present her paper in full at the event. GenderIT.org is publishing her complete…
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IPv6: are African net operators just talking to themselves?
By Francoise Mukuku
IPv6 hour in Africa : experts are pushing everybody to go for it but is it really the time for it? a blogger taking part to teh discussion summarise the thoughts of pros and cons.
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Naomi Wolf's interesting take on a recent storm of high-profile sexual scandals
By Kateřina Fialová
In the article Sex and Surveillance published by Aljazeera , Naomi Wolf gives her own interesting take on a recent storm of sexual scandals involving public figures, such as the head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and raises some interesting points and questions.
