In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
As a gay Latina growing up in Chicago, the only time Dr. Erika Gisela Abad would see someone like herself on a television screen was if she happened to catch her reflection.
On a gritty stretch of road, a stone’s throw from the Las Vegas Strip, sits the Erotic Heritage Museum. A cavernous 24,000 square-foot space, the building is filled with erotic art, artifacts and exhibits that run the gamut from educational to political to whimsical.
In one year’s time, the Trump administration went from acknowledging the struggles of intersex people to pretending they don’t exist.
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
A panel of educators and local indigenous tribe members discuss the importance of embedding local Native American education into lifelong learning as vital to our state’s prosperity, identity and preservation of a culture at risk of extinction.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get paid to write about sex?
On Oct. 14, the CW network debuted its transgender “Supergirl” character Dreamer/Nia Nal and the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ gender and sexuality studies professor Dr. Erika Gisela Abad has given her insights into the character and its portrayal by transgender actress Nicole Maines.
Why TV’s latest superhero is just what we need
Not in our city. No way, no how. This was the message that Houston city council members sent last week when they unanimously voted to change a city ordinance that regulates sex businesses to block a proposed robot brothel from opening.
"What happens in ... stays in ...."
At a 70,000 square-foot, state-of-the art manufacturing facility six miles from the Las Vegas Strip, it’s all lube, all the time.
It’s pink, nine-inches long, and twirls, flutters and vibrates. Known for its disarmingly cute bunny ears, the Rabbit vibrator catapulted to fame 20 years ago this month when it made its star turn during the first season of HBO’s Sex and the City. It became not only a pop culture sensation, but a case study in sex-toy product placement that ushered in a new era of sexual consumerism, one in which female shoppers boldly strutted into sex-toy stores looking to purchase the vibrator they’d seen on Sex and the City.