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One of the activities I participated in prior to V-day at Dartmouth this year was a discussion with Eve Ensler, the playwright and feminist activist best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Being away from the U.S. for a few years and living in Middle-Eastern cultures where sex is a taboo subject and sexuality is incredibly suppressed, I did not know what to expect from my discussion or from watching the play for the first time.  Read more >

I recently jumped into a conversation on sexist terminology and women’s talk when I could not help but disagree with a male colleague who argued that women’s talk in mixed-sex interactions is usually characterized by “disfluency” and the use of approval-seeking questions.  Read more >