Culture

#AWW Book Review: Questions of Travel

By Mindy on 2014-03-29

#AWW2014 Book Review: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Krester.

Portrait of C17th pale, brunette woman in off-shoulder gown.

Friday Hoyden: Hortense Mancini

By Anna on 2014-03-28 • ( 17 )

Hortense Mancini was married at fifteen to one of the richest men in Europe, who turned out to be an obsessive, violent, controlling abuser. She found a way to escape, and to live the rest of her life with an exuberance that would be difficult to match.

Give a Voice to Harassment Victims: A legal fund for sexual harassment victim Karen Stollznow

By tigtog on 2014-03-28 • ( 8 )

Those of you who are regular followers/lurkers of the atheoskeptosphere probably know about this fundraiser for Karen Stollznow’s legal costs by now, but I’m signal-boosting it for the record …

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: Don’t Look At The Policies Behind The Knighthoods edition

By tigtog on 2014-03-26 • ( 10 )

So our drearly beloathed Prime Minister wants to get a gong when he retires from politics.

What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

Sunday Singalong: Footloose Nostalgia

By tigtog on 2014-03-23 • ( 6 )

It’s 25thirty years since Footloose came out, and Kevin Bacon’s still got the moves (and Jimmy Fallon has a gift for cheesy setups).

Debate vs Inquiry and “Reasonable Debate” as a silencing tactic

By tigtog on 2014-03-18 • ( 13 )

Debate is not inquiry. Argument is not skepticism. Fetishizing debate makes us less knowledgeable as a culture and even as a movement, not more.

<okay, sure, we’ve been having these debates for decades now. But let’s dredge it up again. Let’s treat the basic bodily autonomy of people with uteruses** as a subject that’s up for discussion, a subject that reasonable people can disagree about. And let’s be calm and reasonable about it.