Is Hollywood Having a Feminist Sexual Awakening?
From ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ to ‘MMXXL,' this summer’s cinema has focused on female pleasure. But is it a sea change or just a one-night stand?
Jaclyn Friedman
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Jaclyn Friedman (jaclynfriedman.com) is a writer, speaker and feminist troublemaker. Her two books, YES MEANS YES and WHAT YOU REALLY REALLY WANT, have shifted our understanding of healthy sexuality and popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent. She hosts the "Yes Means Yes" podcast, and is the founder of Women, Action & the Media, where she led the successful #FBrape campaign to apply Facebook’s hate-speech ban to content that promotes gender-based violence. Follow her on Twitter at @jaclynf.
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