Silly Americans, Choice is for Girls!
Rethinking Male Circumcision from a Gay Male Feminist Perspective and Embracing Genital Autonomy For the past three decades, women’s studies has emerged as a...
View ArticleMedicaid Letter
Note to reader: As the United States continues to endure bleak financial troubles, this is probably one of the most important times for intactivist grassroots efforts to end the Medicaid funding of...
View ArticleCall for Sponsorships
by: Travis Wisdom Wisdom4241942@yahoo.com To fellow intactivists, feminists, and all who are advocates for social justice: I am planning several intactivist-related events in the next several months...
View ArticleThe Making of an Activist
Author’s note:The article was originally published in the March 2011 issue of The Whole Woman magazine (http://www.whole-woman.com). This declaration of my feminist intactivism is personal, and...
View ArticleMedicaid, CDC, and AAP Letters
On January 24, 2011, I post mailed 46 letters to Medicaid contacts in the United States. As of May 7, 2011, I have received ELEVEN responses. Received: Arkansas Colorado Hawaii Kentucky (Wait until you...
View ArticleStudent’s fight against circumcision reaches global stage
(original article posted here)UNLV student Travis Wisdom has been battling the centuries-old Western tradition of male circumcision for two years. And he’s backing it up with research. A women’s...
View ArticleAdvocating Genital Autonomy: Methods of Intactivism in the United States
The genital autonomy movement advocates for the legal protection of children from genital surgeries without consent of the patient. Genital autonomy is an international social movement whose...
View ArticleThe Bittersweet Successes of ‘Cutting Culture,’ Las Vegas
__"Cutting Culture: A Closer Look at Male Circumcision” was held at the Barrick Museum of the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), November 12, 2011. It fulfilled an internship requirement for my...
View ArticleA Call for Sponsorships to Study in England
_My lifetime goal is to be a scholar in international human rights law. I have been accepted to pursue two advanced degrees at Keele University: (1) Masters of Arts (MA) in Human Rights,...
View ArticleQuestioning Circumcisionism: Feminism, Gender Equality, and Human Rights
by Travis Wisdom, University of Nevada – Las VegasAbstractFor decades feminists worldwide have addressed and combated the harmful practice of female genital mutilation, while largely overlooking male...
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