Rick & Morty’s third season is off to a luminous start
Note: This piece contains spoilers for season 3, episode 2 of Rick & Morty. Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s wildly successful Adult Swim series, Rick & Morty—which follows an...
Must reads: Police violence, weight loss, tech industry, child services, naturism
Good morning, gentle readers! This week we're exploring some really delightful longreads for our recommended reading, including essays on police violence, a week at a naturist retreat, and the...
New survey: 1 in 3 UK LGBT+ people experience bullying at work
For those who believe that LGBTQ people have essentially got equality now and no more campaigning is required, yet more evidence has proven this to be wrong. Research carried out by the Trades...
Britain does not need an autism registry
On Tuesday 1st August, a story appeared on the BBC website headlined 'Autism patients: GPs in England urged to keep register.' NICE, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has...
Between FOB and Banana: How We Try to Define Being Asian-American
When I was in graduate school, I directed a short play that had an all Asian-American cast and production team. For the most part, we all got along wonderfully and the play was one of the...
Why are the Democrats supporting anti-choice candidates?
Well, it's official: The Democrats believe that affirming the bodily autonomy of roughly half the population constitutes a 'litmus test,' so they'll be funding runs by anti-choice candidates...
Must reads: Daesh, Gamergate, prison, trans servicemembers, John Kelly
Good morning, gentle readers! This week we're delving into some rich, complicated longreads from the Middle East to South Central Los Angeles, exploring immigration and transgender people in...
5 ways you stigmatise people taking psychiatric drugs
Medications for people with mental health problems have been around for decades, with many new and improved versions tested and introduced over the years. And, with one in four people...
Ageism in Youth Studies: Generation Maligned Covers an Important Topic, But Has a Flawed Execution
There is a current glut of opinion columns, essays, and speculative pieces that all suggest that millennials—generally defined as young people born between 1980 and the late 1990s, although...
#WednesdayWisdom: How to Become a Russia Expert in 5 Easy Steps
The Russians are coming. While people in Ukraine have been literally screaming that for a while now (with good reason), Americans have recently begun to wake up to the possibility, now that the...