Marie-Hélène Westgate: You’ve said in interviews that you were a tomboy growing up, and that your parents were happy to treat you as such. From what I understand, gender identity…
'I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people assert that boys are good because they are emotionally 'uncomplicated'.' Photograph: Stock Connection Distribution/Alamy I am the mother…
Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'" Massachusetts Review. 18. 1977. Rpt. in Heart of Darkness, An Authoritative Text, background and Sources Criticism. 1961.…
There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no…
Mark Greene explores how in American culture, men avoid all contact rather than risk even the hint of causing unwanted sexual touch. In preparing to write about the lack of gentle touch in…
I’ve spent this past week at the Drupal conference in Denver, CO. It’s my first time attending and I’ve learned a lot and met a lot of great people. Based on my experience with…
The question of whether or not to include trans women in women’s sexuality-based events is old and tiresome, but it still comes up with some regularity. I recently responded to a discussion on…
Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off.It wasn't a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology…
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. Arise I say! Othello,…
The Burka Avenger is a new animated series set to launch on Pakistani TV next month. The protagonist is a school teacher by day and superhero by night. Critics have argued that cloaking the…
Photo by Jesse Means The wonderful thing about being a data scientist is that I get all of the credibility of genuine science, with none of the irritating peer review or reproducibility worries. My first taste of this was my Facebook friends connection map . The underlying data was sound, derived…
Punk is supposed to be inclusive, right? Artist Suzy X wrote and illustrated this comic about feeling excluded from the punk scene and eventually finding a comfortable place in music.
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UPDATE: Welcome readers from facebook and elsewhere! Please subscribe through the buttons at the right if you enjoy this post. The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my…
One of the most frequent questions I hear is: Can men live together loving one woman and not want to kill each other in fits of jealousy? A few years ago I would have shrugged and said that…
''So you want to make Twine games? It's easy! Here are some resources to help you:''\n\nFirst, download Twine from the <html><a href="http://gimcrackd.com/etc/src/">Twine…
Recently there have been many debates about historical accuracy in Fantasy. Debates range between how progressive a character’s politics can plausibly get to whether your agrarian folks could…
The last line of “An Arundel Tomb” is among the most quoted in all of Larkin: “What will survive of us is love.” Its popularity can seem ironic. Larkin is mainly known for…
Masturbation itself is not new to me. I first masturbated when I was five, finding the good feelings suddenly as I rode my new teddy bear like a horse across my my still baby-quilted bed. But…
I leave work around 5 on a steamy day in my favourite summer dress, hit the corner and as I try to cross, a guy in a silver car slows and makes friendly eye contact with me. With his hands he says…
What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? —Michael Mcneill It’s midsummer. The air is hot and heavy. Two old-timers sit on the porch in rocking chairs. On the…
AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER AND INTEGRAL THEORIST Ken Wilber laughed playfully on a recent Ethics of Sexuality podcast when he said: Don’t touch it or touch it as much as you can. That, Wilber pointed…
by Chase Dimock In the author’s note for her 1930 novel The One Who is Legion: or A.D.’s Afterlife, Natalie Clifford Barney writes: “For years I have been haunted by the idea…
I currently work for a media organization (Business Insider) which potentially means more visibility (and therefore more scrutiny) for my Twitter account, @pegobry. Given this, given Business…
I read this cool article last week — “30 Things To Stop Doing To Yourself” — and I thought, hey, heeeey, that’s interesting. Writers might could use their own…
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