Schoolchildren in Caldas take part in a voluntary project using a rubber doll with built-in software programmed to act like a newborn
Year: 2019
We need to talk about women’s bodies – without shame | Fiona Sturges
I’m delighted that, in a slew of cultural projects, discussion of vulvas takes centre stage
Are vulvas having a moment? It’s a ridiculous question, I know, given that more than half of us have them. It’s like asking if bicycles are finally fashionable, or if fingernails are now a thing. But in these supposedly enlightened times, our lady-parts continue to be overlooked, misunderstood, bossed about and violated. Still, it’s been heartening of late to see vulvas (or vaginas, or fannies, or foofs – let each woman decide what she calls what’s in her pants) discussed more openly, shown off in museums and celebrated on television and in books. This isn’t about the vulva-shaped soaps and cushions flooding gift shops, or Gwyneth Paltrow and her daft vaginal eggs. I’m talking about cultural conversations and artefacts that illuminate and educate us all on matters that, by rights, should be common knowledge.
Earlier this year, Channel 4 aired 100 Vaginas, a joyful, taboo-busting documentary in which Laura Dodsworth interviewed 100 women and photographed their vulvas. The series highlighted how little the issues that have most impact on women’s lives, from sexual violence to childbirth, infertility and menopause, are openly discussed. This spring, the pop-up Vagina Museum – the first of its kind in the world – opened in Camden, north London, with the hope of breaking the stigma surrounding women’s bodies and sexuality, and has since launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to secure a permanent home.
‘We aren’t getting back in the closet’ says Angela Eagle in impassioned LGBT speech – video
The former Labour minister Angela Eagle gave a passionate LGBT speech during a Commons debate on Tuesday, in which she said ‘we aren’t going to get back in the closet’. Eagle was challenging those protesting against LGBT equality teaching in schools. Eagle, who was the first openly lesbian female MP when she came out in 1997, said such education is not ‘propagandising’ or about ‘trying to turn people gay’, but about respecting their rights to have an ‘equal welcome in school’ and not be bullied
LGBT classes: we aren’t getting back in the closet, MP says
Angela Eagle challenges those protesting against LGBT equality teaching during Commons debate
Former Labour minister Angela Eagle has insisted: “We aren’t going to get back in the closet,” as she challenged those protesting against LGBT equality teaching during a Commons debate.
Eagle, who was the first openly gay female MP when she came out in 1997, said such education is not “propagandising” or about “trying to turn people gay”, but about respecting their rights to have an “equal welcome in school” and not be bullied.
Worst sex positions for women and why they don’t like it
There are hundreds of sex positions; so many options that you can experiment with a new one every day for an entire year. In addition to the classic positions, a lot of lovers are practicing positions that women do not particularly enjoy. But what are these positions? And why do women hate them? Why Women Dislike Some Sex Positions A lot of lovers are
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Labour colleagues outraged after MP Roger Godsiff backs anti-LGBT protest
MP reported to party whip after he told Birmingham school demonstrators ‘you’re right’
The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said she had reported fellow Labour MP Roger Godsiff to the party’s chief whip over comments about LGBT teaching in schools, as other party colleagues criticised him for saying “you’re right” to protesters against such teaching at a Birmingham primary school.
“This might be the personal views of Mr Roger Godsiff but they do not represent the Labour Party & are discriminatory & irresponsible,” Rayner wrote on Twitter.
Related: ‘We can’t give in’: the Birmingham school on the frontline of anti-LGBT protests
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Esther McVey unfit to be an MP after LGBT comments, says Labour
Angela Rayner calls Tory leadership candidate’s views ‘illegal, immoral and dangerous’
Labour has accused the Conservative leadership hopeful Esther McVey of being unfit to be an MP after she repeated her view that parents should be allowed to take primary-aged children out of lessons on same-sex relationships.
Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said McVey’s arguments in favour of letting parents take young children out of LGBT education were “illegal, immoral and deeply dangerous”.
High court bans Birmingham school protests against LGBT lessons
Birmingham city council wins injunction to stop demonstrations and social media abuse
Demonstrators protesting against primary school children being taught that people of all genders and sexualities should be treated equally have been served with a high court injunction.
Birmingham city council made the application following several weeks of protests outside Anderton Park primary school in the city.
Related: ‘We can’t give in’: the Birmingham school on the frontline of anti-LGBT protests
‘Parents know best’: Esther McVey faces Tory backlash over LGBT lessons
Potential PM says ‘final say’ on children learning about same-sex relationships is for parents
Tory leadership hopeful Esther McVey has come under fire from within her own party after she said it should be up to parents if they want to withdraw their primary-age children from lessons on same-sex relationships.
The remarks by McVey, a former work and pensions secretary, sparked a backlash from equality campaigners and one of her own colleagues, Justine Greening, who was the first openly gay female cabinet minister.
Related: Fear of LGBT-inclusive lessons harks back to 80s, says Peter Tatchell
Introduced by the Thatcher government, Section 28 of the Local Government Act stated that a local authority shall not ‘intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality’ or ‘promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’.
