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SAFE Charlotte grantee voices concern over Alternatives to Violence program

A SAFE Charlotte grantee has voiced concern over the Alternatives to Violence contract that was approved in the September 12th city council business meeting. Fran Hall is executive director of the Beatties Ford Road Vocational Trade Center. She addressed the council in an email at 6 p.m. Monday evening. In April, 17 local non-profits received […]

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#Acceptance Matters: Onlyfans’ censorship flip-flop has spurred a movement against banking discrimination

Content warning: discussion of sexual assault Note: Angel Fae’s pronouns are fae written in lowercase. Fae (uppercase proper noun) is faer name. At the start of this month, sex workers of every identity have launched a movement against Mastercard to protest its upcoming adult content policy. Acceptance Matters, a sex worker advocacy group, has collected […]

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Spoon report: coronavirus and local tunes

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To Shave Or Not To Shave

Version of this article posted in Washington Square News found here. Our bodies are naturally hairy. On and under our arms or on and between our legs. People have been removing unwanted hair since the days of ancient Egypt and Greece with things like beeswax and tweezers made of seashells. Cultural ideas and attitudes towards […]

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Smoking Culture Here and Abroad

Article for Washington Square News Culture found here. NYU has a “university smoke-free campus policy,” though you wouldn’t know it from the countless students seen casually puffing on cigarettes right outside Bobst and Silver. The policy, enacted in June of 2014, “prohibits smoking at all times on the University campus, including…within close proximity to…any building […]