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Tag: taboos
The Nigerian-American Writer Who Takes on Taboos
When Chinelo Okparanta speaks, she looks straight at you and fixes you with big, mesmerizing brown eyes. The Nigerian-American is soft-spoken and measured until you get to something that excites her, such as the news of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize win, and then her words fly and her hands begin to dance. “Okparanta has a […]
How CYCLES + SEX Busts Myths and Taboos About Sex, Reproductive Health, and Gender
LA readers should head to this weekend’s CYCLES + SEX, an all-day event at The Springs in DTLA that brings together the top experts and leaders in the areas of sexual and reproductive health to talk all things hormones, menstruation, gender, body awareness, and more. Speakers include actress and filmmaker Rickie Lake (The Business of […]
Who Do You Think You Are? review: Dancing around taboos
GETTY Charles Dance found out about his family history on last night’s Who Do You Think You Are? These were all he had to go on, in unpicking the great puzzle of his parents. He wasn’t adopted, switched at birth, found in a reed basket or anything like that, he just experienced something once common […]
