A collection of 240 posts
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.
Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.
The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.
There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.
Everyone with political beliefs benefits from systems that they oppose in some way.