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Title: Anti-porn conference stresses importance of awareness
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Post by: Shana A on October 26, 2010, 09:08:41 AM
Anti-porn conference stresses importance of awareness
By Caitlin Andrews
Contributing Writer
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
http://www.tnhonline.com/anti-porn-conference-stresses-importance-of-awareness-1.1726979 (http://www.tnhonline.com/anti-porn-conference-stresses-importance-of-awareness-1.1726979)
Students of all stripes came to discuss feminism and pornography during the Feminist Anti-Pornography conference held last weekend. The UNH Womyn's Club, along with the New Hampshire chapter of the group Stop Porn Culture, hosted the event.
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Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan, who took a view of pornography from a transgender angle, spoke after Jensen, along with David Jacobsen, who discussed the portrayal of gay black men in porn. According to Stop Porn Culture's website, "Like other forms of pornography, 'she-male' porn is filled with degrading, misogynistic and racist images that function to further the oppression of transgender women in everyday life."
By Caitlin Andrews
Contributing Writer
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
http://www.tnhonline.com/anti-porn-conference-stresses-importance-of-awareness-1.1726979 (http://www.tnhonline.com/anti-porn-conference-stresses-importance-of-awareness-1.1726979)
Students of all stripes came to discuss feminism and pornography during the Feminist Anti-Pornography conference held last weekend. The UNH Womyn's Club, along with the New Hampshire chapter of the group Stop Porn Culture, hosted the event.
snip
Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan, who took a view of pornography from a transgender angle, spoke after Jensen, along with David Jacobsen, who discussed the portrayal of gay black men in porn. According to Stop Porn Culture's website, "Like other forms of pornography, 'she-male' porn is filled with degrading, misogynistic and racist images that function to further the oppression of transgender women in everyday life."