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Peg Tittle
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Dec 14 2016
Christmas Elves
Generally speaking, I don’t do Christmas. At all. But when I see an ad in the classifieds for “Three female elves to work in a mall during the Christmas season”, well, I have to say something. And the first thing I have to say is, I don’t think they’re going to find any – male …
Nov 27 2016
The Sci Phi Journal!
Check out the Sci Phi Journal: a journal about science fiction and philosophy! Not just about though, there are many cool stories to read and think about…
Nov 24 2016
Planning is Sinister?
In This Changes Everything,* Naomi Klein makes an interesting observation, intended to explain why we aren’t building the kind of economy we need: “… there is something sinister, indeed vaguely communist, about having a plan to build the kind of economy we need, even in the face of existential crisis” (125, my emphasis). Is that …
Nov 04 2016
Sterilization: The Personal and the Political
Ever since I’ve been old enough to ask myself ‘Do I want children?’, my answer has been ‘No’ – a rather emphatic ‘No!’ I consider parenting to be a career, and a very demanding one at that: twenty-four hours a day for at least fourteen years, you are responsible for the physical, emotional, and intellectual …
Oct 27 2016
Calm down. Don’t think about— Don’t think.
One day when I was talking to a neighbour about something that I wished we could do something about—someone tossing their garbage out of their car onto the road where we walk every day, someone letting their kid drive a dirt bike with no muffler throughout the neighbourhood, someone burning leaves and sending toxic smoke …
Oct 18 2016
The 100, Madam Secretary, Code Black
If you haven’t yet discovered it, check out The 100 (available on Netflix). There are so many female leaders and principals! Clarke, her mother, Raven, Octavia, the three grounder leaders… And in one episode, not only does Clarke do something really difficult and really important with Finn, the camera ends with a close-up of her, …
Sep 30 2016
Hank
[Note: this piece was written a while ago; hence the low figures!] For those who think it’s no longer a patriarchal world and women are treated the same as men – you’re wrong. And I am so tired, so very tired of my sex getting in the way of my life, making every little thing …
Sep 10 2016
Making misogyny a hate crime — It’s about time!
Take a look: “Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime” It’s about time! Let’s see this WORLD-WIDE!!!
Sep 08 2016
To My Philosophy Professors – by chris wind
Another poem from chris wind – thought this one especially apt since it’s September and students are back at university…it’s from her book dreaming of kaleidoscopes To My Philosophy Professors Why didn’t you tell me? When I was all set to achieve Eudamonia through the exercise of Right Reason, When I was eager …
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