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By Tabassum Shama The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema is the role of invincibility that black women take up both voluntarily and...

How does someone’s gender expression impact the discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people face? Is racial...

What is sexual and reproductive health? Reproductive health is a term that has generally referred to an array of concerns and capacities...

Illustration by Hanna Barczyk What is rape culture? Rape culture is a term that describes the normalization and pervasiveness of sexual...

What does it mean to be LGBTQ+? LGBTQ+ is an abbreviation that encompasses a variety of different sexual and gender identities. We use...

What is positive sexuality? Positive sexuality has several meanings. The first is understanding sexuality as a positive force —be it...

What is masculinity? Masculinity is a constellation of human behaviors, qualities, roles and characteristics that have been socially...

By Elise Bragard The passing of Valentine’s Day this year had me thinking about all my past loves and experiences of attraction. It got...

By Allison Cabana *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working...

By Jessica Lin Women are nurturing and men are assertive – at least, that is what society teaches us. Even with more women in leadership...

By Bridget Woods Illustration by Lydia Ortiz “Are you, like, a real bisexual, though?” I cannot count how many times I have had to hear...

By Steph Anderson *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working...

By Marisa Ragonese *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working...

By Laura Hooberman On September 19th, The Washington Post reported that United States Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson...

By Jenn Chmielewski *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...

By Laura Hooberman Illustration by Paul Windle In 2018, when the French men’s soccer team won the World Cup, the players reacted to the...

#teengirlsy Jenn Chmielewski *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled...

By Laura Hooberman In the event that you’ve somehow been mercifully spared from the onslaught of news stories over the past month...

By Marisa Ragonese Illustration by Neil Webb I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since. One of...

By Julia Leask Illustration by Renee Klahr As we progressed through the lectures in my social psychology and human sexuality classes I...