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Northwestern Sex Week, organized by NU College Feminists, launched their eight-part programming Monday with a sex toy giveaway at Norris University Center. The NUCF planning committee began working on the week in April, collaborating with Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, Menstrual Equity Activists and The Women’s Center to coordinate the series of events. Weinberg...
Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators hosted a Sexual Health Talk as part of Northwestern Sex Week on Tuesday. In its presentation, two SHAPE educators centered sexual pleasure and provided information on contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and more. To begin the presentation, McCormick junior David Botana, one of the educators, read aloud NU’s definition...
When Weinberg senior Jem Feuilladieu was a freshman, he dreamt of Black Northwestern students “thriving” rather than just “surviving” on campus. This fall, they founded the Black Health and Wellness Collaborative to bring those dreams to fruition. According to its mission statement, BHWC aims to provide a space of discourse, support and resources for Black...
When Weinberg junior Vivica Lewis first learned the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she said she stayed off social media and avoided talking to people about the news because “it just hurt so bad.” Lewis has spent the summer working on a research project about the history of birth control access in countries across...
Content Warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault. Pritzker Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer recently published a book about the aftermath of sexual abuse and why survivors often decide not to report this abuse. In “Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers,” Tuerkheimer analyzes the role credibility plays both in a court of law and...