The Rules of Emoji Sex

Just issues, news, and other stuff that matters to you [Fusion] August 2, 2016 🔊 Korryn Gaines was [shot and killed] by Baltimore police officers after an hours-long standoff on Monday morning. The police, who also shot and injured her five-year-old son, were at Gaines’ house to serve her an arrest warrant for not showing up to court for a traffic violation. I first began to see Gaines’ name on my Twitter timeline with the hashtag #SayHerName, a campaign started to bring more visibility to black women, including queer and transgender women, who face police brutality. Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term [intersectionality], explains in her recent “Say Her Name” [report] that, while cases of black men being killed by police often receive national attention, black women can end up being left out of civil rights or media narratives. The [#SayHerName] hashtag offers everyone a way of drawing attention to Gaines’ killing—the ninth black woman to be killed by police this year. Here’s “[In My Name]” by Jamila Woods. —[Darian Symoné Harvin] TODAY IN... A PIVOTAL MOMENT Fusion’s Jorge Ramos explains why [Trump’s vision] for the country is a threat to the American experiment. END THE KILLING Dylann Roof’s lawyers have filed a legal motion in Charleston, South Carolina, arguing that the death penalty is [unconstitutional]. Roof killed nine churchgoers during bible study last year. BITE ME How it feels when [your neighborhood] is suddenly the epicenter of Miami’s Zika breakout. FOR THE KIDS Kanye West has always preached the “[Yeezy’s for all]” gospel. Now he’s put a [$30 price tag] on it. SEXT ETIQUETTE There are [degrees of emoji sex]. You can’t just start out with a 🍆 ! THE READ [How the Internet Created the Asexual Community] [Kristen-V.-Brown_b&w] by Kristen V. Brown A decade ago, when Bauer was a high school junior, she felt left out as all of her friends became engulfed in the throws of teenage lust. A sex-obsessed maniac, Bauer was not. She had crushes on people, but had never experienced that sexual pull. A friend described wanting to sleep with an ex-boyfriend who she no longer loved and Bauer was puzzled. Desiring someone for sex alone made no sense. She didn’t get it. A friend suggested that she might be asexual. “I was like, ‘I’m not a plant!” said Bauer, now 27, who preferred to use only her first name in this piece. “I had only heard the word ‘asexual’ in biology.” For years, people had been telling her that she just hadn’t met the right person, and she thought that seemed like a reasonable explanation. But then she entered the term ‘asexual’ into Google. The first relevant hit was for a website called AVEN—”The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.” The [landing page] greeted her with a definition that seemed to describe who she was. [Read more] - [Fusion is exploring the future of sex, all week long] LET’S TALK ABOUT EMPOWERMENT “I’m not asking you to like my body. I’m just asking you to let me be me. Because I’m going to influence a girl who does look like me, and I want her to feel good about herself.” That’s Serena Williams [telling the world], once again, that she will continue to [love her body]. COMING UP Wednesday, 9 PM ET: Did you know the official republican Platform calls porn a 'national health crisis'? This week on Hot Line—Fusion's [Facebook] call-in show about sex, love, and dating—host Cleo Stiller will take calls about what role porn plays in your relationships. Is all porn created equal? [Facebook] [Twitter] [Vine] [Instagram] [Youtube] Remember, you can always [click here to unsubscribe] and never see another one of these emails until the apocalypse (at which time it'll be nothing but emails). This email was sent to {EMAIL} Fusion · 419 Lafayette St · New York, NY 10003 · USA