European Employers’ Hijab Ban Ruled Legal
This week, the European Court of Justice ruled that it was legal for companies to ban employees from wearing the hijab, as long as such a ban is part of a wider ruling prohibiting any...
Category: Culture
But We Survived: A Story of Living Through the Japanese Internment in America
I met Natsumi* almost 10 years ago in Los Angeles. She was the program coordinator for a senior community center (“I’m a professional volunteer!” she likes to joke) I taught at. Observant,...
Conservative Christianity is making the LGB community sick
It is a bold claim, but new research carried out by the Oasis Foundation explains how the church is the predominant cause of mental health problems in the LGB community. To acknowledge that they are...
Don’t make fatphobia your New Year’s resolution
It’s January, which means the TV is full of ads for low-calorie yoghurt and high-priced slimming clubs. Are you bloated? Have you overdone it during the holiday season? Well, these sugar...
5 ways we chased immortality in 2016
I recently watched the episode of Black Mirror, “San Junipero,” where a woman in a vegetative state chooses to upload her consciousness into a computer where she will live forever; young and in...
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Star Destroyer is poised over the holy city of Jedha like a dagger through the heart of the Force. The Empire needs Kyber crystals to power the newly constructed Death Star to, “Commence...
Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck explores the women we love to hate
If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
On the limitations and promise of Arab millennials
While the media is ripe with discussion on the habits, behavior, and ideologies of American millennials, not much has been said about the lives of the young Arabs who spear-headed the 2010 Arab...
Stop using disabled people as object lessons to push exercise
NPR caught flak from the disability community this week as they published an article reporting on a medical study supporting physical activity as a means of delaying or preventing mobility...
It’s not just a cartoon: why satire should come of age
To go from “Je suis Charlie” to suing Charlie doesn’t really take much. The Italian town of Amatrice knows it well. After an earthquake that claimed 295 victims, the famously controversial...