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Mental health is a privilege
If you haven’t been diagnosed with a neural ‘condition’, such as such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, aspergers syndrome, depression, attention deficit disorder and so on, you benefit from neurotypical privilege. Sarah Langston , who lives with bipolar disorder, investigates the complexities of navigating the world without this advantage and calls for those with privilege to work with th...
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Why I help teenagers get secret abortions
As women’s reproductive rights are threatened across the globe, with a young couple about to prosecuted in Australia for accessing the RU486 abortion ...
Eating animals may be natural but so what?
We may argue that humans are biologically omnivores therefore it’s natural to eat meat. But just because something is ‘natural’, it doesn’t make it et...
Rape deception charge is racist
A guy talks his way into a girl’s bed by claiming he’s something he isn’t. Who hasn’t heard that story before? Isn’t it just another – melancholy – as...
It’s time to reject the 'flattering' outfit
Fat people who only wear outfits that are ‘flattering’ to their figures are not only accepting that our own bodies are bad and terrible, we are passin...
Advertising’s agenda of white heteronormativity
Adverts don’t just sell us a product, they sell a white, heterosexual identity and lifestyle as the norm. In just one and a half minutes, film directo...
Anti-immigration groups target environmentalists
Environmentalists need to be aware of ‘greenwashers’ – so-called ‘progressives for immigration reform’. These nativists are not about protecting the e...
Genderqueer feminist porn star: Jiz Lee
The queer community has long been starved of easily accessible pornography that ruptures the ‘norm’ and provides visual themes and sub-contexts that r...
The trouble with vegans
Reclaiming pink has been a disaster for feminism
Feminism’s reluctance, or failure, to abide by consistency in a movement’s rules of color has, in ef...
Wonder Woman in pants is not a feminist win
Taking Wonder Woman out of her hot pants and bustier and into leggings signals the sad loss of Ameri...
Why white people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali
She’s one of Islam’s harshest critics, and – as her recent talk at the Sydney Opera House showed – e...
Social media is lost on politicians
‘Missing the point’ is all in a day’s work for a politician but an expert on social media recently c...
Sci-fi bloggers: From community to commodity
The loss of innocence is a nearly universal experience online. It occurs when one’s initial surge of...
Why I won’t be buying an e-reader
There's nothing wrong with electronic reading devices, but Alan Nothnagle draws the line at reading ...
Should animal rights activists use violence?
Although we need to think our way out of utilizing violence to advance animals’ rights, this does no...
Impact of BP disaster will last for decades
Is your mobile phone contributing to rape?
If you own a mobile phone or a computer, it’s likely that your money has contributed to the rape of ...
Where are the butch intellectuals?
Predominant stereotypes of butch women are that we work with our hands, have callouses, and wear ste...
Be polite to gender-ambiguous people
Anti-trans ‘feminists’, you’ve got it so wrong
The exclusion of trans people from women’s spaces is a tired and mistaken type of ‘feminism’, writes...
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