by Carl Howard | Jul 28, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, History
[CN: War, starvation, genocide] The legacy of WWII is a much bigger deal in the former Soviet Union than can be imagined in many other countries. The Victory Day celebrations of May 9th are a major international event in Moscow (although this year’s 70th anniversary...
by Carl Howard | Jul 25, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, History, Race
Earlier this year my partner got us tickets to the opera production of The Rabbits because a lot of people recommended it to her. Now, I live in a massive ivory tower when it comes to children’s literature. Before that I’ve never heard of John Marsden and Shaun...
by Carl Howard | Jul 21, 2015 | Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: sexual assault talk, more graphic than previous posts] Last week, I looked at the specific wording of a law that talks about the application of affirmative consent in Californian colleges. One part of the law deserved a post of its own: Affirmative consent must...
by Carl Howard | Jul 14, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last week I posted about what a paradigm of affirmative consent would look like. A lot of the post was general, not talking about specific legislation. And yet, the whole media frenzy was around some of the new affirmative consent laws in...
by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last year, the idea of affirmative consent was first put into place by some US college campuses. This sparked a lot of discussion, some good and some, ahem, “sub-optimal”. Maybe we’ll remember 2014 as the year of the rape singularity that...
by Carl Howard | Jun 28, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Feminism and LGBT, History
People have been posting and liking and rainbowifying profiles like there’s no tomorrow. It’s great to feel good when something good happens. And hopefully this will have a positive effect on Australia. But this is also a great time to read more things by LGBT people...
