Word: shame
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Many of the speakers at the panels, which were hosted by the Harvard Queer Students and Allies, agreed that sex and virginity are often associated with loss and even shame. They argued for a more positive approach to sexuality...
...Being sex-positive means being anti-fear and pro-information, and that can mitigate shame,” said Sarah Morton, president of the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund...
...adopted radically different views on affirmative action, I’ve realized that societal constructions such as virginity and promiscuity are outdated and harmful, and I’ve tempered previously held notions of heteronormativity. Apparently, I was a little of all three. When we immediately jump to shame into submission those who express views we deem racist, we reinforce a binary in which people are either prejudiced or not. But that’s simply not how “isms” work. None of us have been raised in a post-racial or post-gender society...
...Don’t Tell’ policy is what it does every single day in the heart of a soldier—it tells them that they should be ashamed,” Choi said. “One is forced not only into secrecy, but into shame. Deception is enforced; shame is enforced...
...show aims to politicize the script, a move Linden sees as natural because religion is so politicized today. “We have some addressing of religious LGBT issues, we have some addressing of the repression of shame that is caused by the specter of organized religion,” he says...