relationships Archive

What Was I Saying?

I loved a piece published by Futurity last week that confirms that “brain fog” during perimenopause isn’t imagined. Conversations with friends have certainly confirmed I’m not alone in it, but we have pondered whether it’s the challenges of balancing life itself. We are all smushed in between work and home responsibilities. We have children at [...]

Speak No Evil

Update March 16: Utah bans the ban! (Insert cheer). But it may not be over yet….  The past week was a lively one in the US, what with Utah busy banning sex education and determining a difficult future for their youth. Nothing like laying the groundwork for glory. This despite research that says sex education [...]

Happy International Women’s Day!

Happy International Women’s Day! Today we honour the work of generations who have made change to make our world what it is today. And today we celebrate the work we’re all doing to make things better for the women of tomorrow.   There is still a lot to take on- gender violence, equal rights, cultural “norms” [...]

New Darling, New Delights – When Do You Bring Up Safe Sex?

My coworker Monique at Positive Women’s Network wrote a great piece about HIV disclosure a couple of weeks back. She’s been living with HIV for a long time, and while most of her friends know, it’s something else again when she has to think about telling someone she might have sex with. Her ethics are [...]

Sex- It’s all in the “Relationship”

I recently caught up with Cindy Masaro, whose work I blogged about last summer. Cindy’s a sexual health nurse and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. As part of her PhD studies, she’s researching how women connect with sex partners through technology- online dating sites, texting, chatting- and how these technologies could influence [...]

Robot Love and Sex Toys

I was a little wary of Googling it, because I wasn’t sure what might result but I did it anyway: “history of sex toys.” I was prompted by a radio story I heard on CBC Q about having sex with robots and a piece about manufacturing sex toys in China (the demand’s increasing at home [...]

Pregnancy Diary on Sex Ed Site: Awesome

So there I am cruising through articles to post on our Twitter feed, and I come across this one on Scarleteen (great sex education site aimed at folks 15-25, BTW). It’s called Pregnant & Posting: 10 Weeks. What a cool idea- posting about pregnancy on a site that’s about safe sex, contraception education, and healthy [...]

Safety’s Not Always at Home

In my work at Positive Women’s Network, one of the things we end up talking about a lot is violence against women. It’s a day to day reality of many of the women living with HIV that we support. Violence shapes many women’s lives, whether it’s historical, or current and ongoing. For some it influenced [...]

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