De-Program Yourself From Slut-Shaming

July 14, 2015

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Laurel Dickman

Written for Wear Your Voice Magazine. Published on Jul 13, 2015.

"...Slut shaming is one of the deepest internalized prejudices that most people seem to have, regardless of gender. Even with my extremely liberal upbringing and a very conscious effort as an adult to deprogram deep-seated misogyny and macro/microaggressive racism, I still find myself judging other women and my own sexual past harshly at times. We have to start being nicer to ourselves than this..."