By Taneasha White

I recently read an article that listed the “types” of orgasm a woman can have. My partner and I stared wide-eyed when reading through this list, confused at how someone would publish an article stating that further research is needed to decipher what causes a “nipple orgasm.”

​Apparently, it couldn’t possibly be because it simply feels good.

By Luna Lark

By The Editors

Marleen S. Barr is a sci-fi scholar, author, and unapologetic feminist. If you've read Her Plumage, then you may recognize her name among the contributors. 

For today's Creation in Isolation, we talk about the "post-truth" world, predicting political disaster, and topics covered in her short story collection When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber (B Cubed Press).  
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By Margot Riddle

Before I really got invested into the makeup world, I just bought what looked pretty. I really only considered the power of my dollar recently, especially after listening to beauty commentary channels about the skeevy behavior of some of the most popular makeup gurus and their brands. Remember, money talks, and we have more power than we realize. Just recently, Kat Von D sold her problematic brand Kat Von D Cosmetics, which has since been rebranded as KVD Vegan Beauty, though its reputation still struggles. 

So if you've been following the events of "Karmageddon 3", then you'll know about how many people are disturbed and disgusted by the bad behavior of the people who run their favorite brands. While many people have known which brands to avoid for a while, there are always going to be people who go into the beauty world without any idea of how wicked things can be behind the scenes. 

Since so many people were duped by problematic influencers, here are some dupes of products to replace their equally problematic brands. To address their branding problems, some companies may take advantage of some effective branding and marketing strategies. One of them is the use of beauty products or lifestyle photography. It’s a type of photography that captures cosmetic products in a manner that consumers will want to buy them. In short, the primary objective of this type of photography is to present beauty products in the most marketable way possible. 
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It is important to get as much good photography tips to achieve more desirable outcomes. Thankfully, there are many professionals out there who can help obtain the best photos possible. For instance, an experienced photographer can show what the target audience can see, use the brand motto in the images, show every important detail of the product, and capture the product in action. Whatever techniques they’re going to use, beauty products and lifestyle photography may mitigate the adverse effects of having problematic brands. 

By Christine Sloan Stoddard

By Christine Sloan Stoddard

Yesterday was July 4th, but it was yet another birthday I didn't feel like celebrating. Not that I ever celebrated July 4th the way many Americans do. My Salvadoran mother, who became a U.S. citizen when I was 5 or 6 years old, observed Independence Day with gusto. The rest of the family followed suit. Mommy encouraged the whole clan to wear red, white, and blue. She cooked up a feast worthy of a TV commercial: hotdogs, macaroni and cheese, corn on the cob, baked beans, the requisite green vegetable (usually green beans or peas.) And don't forget the fireworks! She was all about them, and whatever parade or concert led up to the show. We weren't celebrating the United States and its "victories" so much as we were celebrating a new home and beginning for my mother. A fresh start. An escape from civil war in her country of birth. Gratitude for survival. At a young age, my siblings and I learned about the sins of our home country, the land of Reagan, and how those sins had impacted El Salvador and other countries around the world. Our father, a product of the American public school system, opened our eyes to the sins committed within our country, too. American exceptionalism was never our family value. 

By Alex Carrigan

There are way too many things we inherit from our ancestors that resonate with us. Some families pass down stories and religion. Others pass down specific hair and eye colors. Some pass down genetic illnesses and health conditions. Others inflict trauma or suffer from trauma that affects the successive generations. There are so many things to consider when looking at ones familial history and how it affects you in the past, present, and future, and reckoning with that can be the sort of thing that reveals more about oneself than previously thought.