Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a writer, activist and executive editor of feminist website Feministing.com. Her first book Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life discusses contemporary dating...
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for weeks now. Since its beginnings on a Saturday night in September, the Occupy movement has spread like wildfire across the country and indeed the...
Next Tuesday in Mississippi, voters will decide on Initiative 26, a new constitutional amendment which will define radically redefine the legal conception of personhood, considering a person “every...
One of the most striking and moving images from the Egyptian Revolution was a line of Coptic Christians, linking arms and protecting the Muslims from the military police during their call to prayer....
The Quest For the Historical Satan, Miguel A. De La Torre and Albert Hernandez, Fortress 2011. It’s a familiar image to most people in (post) Christian societies - the red, pitchforked Satan. but...
You wouldn’t know it from the news headlines in the United States, but for the past ten days hundreds of activists have been protesting 300 metres from the heart of Wall Street. On September...
Jane Gallop, The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time, Duke UP, 2011. “The death of the author” has long been a theme in literary theory. First posed by the French intellectual...
Australia has long struggled with its own institutional xenophobia. From its very beginnings with the infamous “White Australia” policy, the nation has been shaped by racist policies that almost...
While over the weekend New York's GLBT community celebrated its recent gay marriage bill, ten thousand miles to the south a new marriage fight is only just beginning. Gay marriage has long been a...
The last few years have been a tumultuous time in Greek politics, especially after the debt “crisis” of 2010 and the subsequent EU/IMF bailout. Protests and riots on the streets of Athens have...
