Author: Melanie Elyse Brewster

Melanie Elyse Brewster is an assistant professor of psychology and education in New York City who would describe herself as a new atheist and queer. Her research focuses on identity intersectionality and experiences of marginalization. Her book on "coming out" as atheist will be released next summer. Until then, for inappropriate jokes, feminist rants, and inane musings, you can follow her on twitter @melysebrewster

By Melanie Elyse Brewster

QUICKIES 7/5/2013

By Melanie Elyse Brewster

On July 5, 2013

Sexual surrogates and issues of ability, this time, without Helen Hunt. Tension and bloodshed continues to rise in Egypt. Dozens of people were wounded in clashes in Morsi’s Nile Delta home city on Thursday, raising fears of more of the violence in which several dozen have died in the past month. Heterosexual cisdudes’ ulterior motives when giving […]

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The IUD Option: Stigma, Falsehoods, and Shaming

By Melanie Elyse Brewster

On June 25, 2013

This confession may come as a shock to some: I have never been in love with menstruation. The dread of a surprise attack, cramps, the discomfort of cotton wads crammed where no wads of cotton should b

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QUICKIES 06/19/2013

By Melanie Elyse Brewster

On June 19, 2013

Since the critically acclaimed documentary, (A)sexual: Not Everybody is Doing It, hit in 2011, asexuality discourse in the public sphere has begun to blossom. Yet still, asexuality is regarded with ra

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