Hey, fellow white people: we need to talk about the fact that we only listen to fellow white people.
I realise that a white person telling you this bypasses irony and heads straight into direct hypocrisy, but recent evidence suggests …
Hey, fellow white people: we need to talk about the fact that we only listen to fellow white people.
I realise that a white person telling you this bypasses irony and heads straight into direct hypocrisy, but recent evidence suggests …
Recently, the Irish Independent’s Barbara McCarthy wrote an account of her experiences in pretending to be a Roma beggar. She got a well-earned social media slating for dressing up her impersonation as a “first-hand” experience of “what it’s like to …
Going abroad without a phone teaches you two life lessons. The first life lesson: “how to function abroad without a phone”. Given that this skill isn’t terribly transferrable, I don’t propose to dwell on it for long. The second, nominally …
Any time you’re vegan and are about to meet lots of non-vegans, prepare for their thoughts and feelings – and what they lack in prior consideration, they’ll make up for in conviction that you Need to Hear This …
A recent Daily Mail headline celebrated the “end of human rights”. The social media response was appropriately derisive. Front-page dismissal of the concept of human rights is something of a watershed moment for any publication – but how …
Last Sunday, an anti-transgender advertisement got a full-page airing in the Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest daily newspaper.
The advert was conservative lobby group Minnesota Child Protection League’s response to the Minnesota State High School League’s proposed policy to allow transgender …
As a sexist, you have two things going for you: a) an investment in maintaining your systemic advantage over women, and b) a huge anxiety not to have anyone notice said investment.
These motivations are tricky to balance, particularly when …
What is it?
A nebulously anti-consumerist version of Facebook, Ello describes itself as an “ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers”, emphasises its grassroots origin “as a private social network”, and assures its users that …
Five days after opening, South Africa’s first gay-friendly mosque risks being shut down by municipal authorities.
A local councillor told Agence France Presse that the mosque had been ordered to comply with regulations in what the mosque’s founder described as …
A list of University of Chicago students alleged to have committed sexual assault was taken down from Tumblr shortly after its publication.
Last weekend, an anonymous group of “Concerned Citizens” at the university drew up a list of current male …