Sexuality

Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.

Adrienne Rich's groundbreaking 1980 essay challenges the assumption that heterosexuality is natural or innate, arguing that it is a political institution that has been imposed upon women and that a 'lesbian continuum' offers a space for female resistance and solidarity.

At a strict Himalayan boarding school, a teenager’s sexual awakening collides with institutional discipline and her mother’s interrupted youth, making desire an intergenerational feminist question.

Nepali activist Bivishika Bhandari argues that naming bodies and sexuality is a practical condition for health, autonomy, and economic participation, especially for women taught to treat their own anatomy as shameful.

This All My Relations episode with Kim TallBear discusses critical polyamory, Indigenous relational ethics, feminism, and settler marriage, making it a key audio resource on how sex, intimacy, and family are structured by colonial power.