Poland: Will I ever stop fighting for my rights?

By Europe & Me's Julia Zalewska In Europe & Me's previous issue, they published this article about the reversion of the right to abortion in Poland. This time, E&M‘s Julia Zalewska, born and raised in Poland, recounts her experience of continuously having to fight for her rights in 21st Century Europe.  I feel hopeless, overwhelmed. The country I live...

Why we (still) need to talk about contraception

By Bori Toth Hand out a single sanitary pad, warn about teen pregnancies and call it a day: there is a lot of room for improvement for high school sex education. It is supposed to be the main pillar that provides agency and empowerment to all regarding sexuality, relationships, and more, yet it fails miserably...

5 Queer Hispanic Showgirls Everyone Should Know

By Ficheraz Mexico City, June 22nd 2020 — Queer culture has always been marginalized, usually reduced to an afterthought in the mainstream consciousness. Until a couple years ago, before shows like RuPaul's Drag Race and Pose appeared, queer entertainment was heavily associated with everything beyond the border of the underground. However, LGBT artists have lived...

The Bi-Stander: “Pick a side, already!”

By Drea Sebastiano-Stanley I’ve lived my whole sexual life in what feels like limbo. When I was an adolescent, it seemed like just about all my friends were happily sexually active, while I was naively perplexed when my crush even glanced my way. I felt immature to think that sex was inevitable and therefore absolutely...

In the event of killing kittens, please read.

By Agnes C. While sex is undoubtedly widespread in our everyday life with naked bodies selling us the last product on the market, cheeky slogans ringing a bell in our vicious minds, apps encouraging us to mingle with strangers, women still blush when it comes to discuss their sexuality. While it seems that we reached...

What do we do after #MeToo?

Now that we all know we’ve been harassed, assaulted and/or raped, where do we go from here? What do we do next? By Emily Andrews Illustration by @aldalilja (via Instagram) I wouldn’t say, with confidence, that I’ve been raped.  It just took me three tries to type out that word - so heavy with meaning...