Why isn’t anyone listening to the disability community when it warns about the future abuses of the Trump Administration?
Connecting the dots: Trump and disability
The practice of medicine should not be the practice of bureaucracy
Physicians should not be spending more time on administrivia than they are on patient care.
Will we ever shake the manic pixie dream girl?
Why is the manic pixie dreamgirl such a mainstay in youth adult literature, and what does that say about our attitudes on mental health and young women?
In storytelling, context matters
Criticising representations and challenging embedded attitudes in text is common, but what happens with authorial context is introduced?
What will Trump do to maternal mortality rates?
The United States likes to advertise its health care system as the best in the world, with top of the line treatments and pioneering care, but the truth is more complex. Financial status can have a huge influence on the type and quality of care received, as can race, especially when the two are compounded. […]
Do we really need to personalise everything?
The fixation on personal stories happens at the expense of real conversations about policy and culture.
It’s all about ethics in citation practices
What are you saying when you cite a person or organisation? Are you endorsing poor practices by lending your weight to bad entities?
Pop culture and parental exploitation narratives
Can we get a moratorium on parents exploiting their children for kudos and profit in the world of pop culture?
Stop saying we need to ‘punish’ red states with a bluexit
Liberals insisting that blue states should withdraw from the union are bigoted and cruel, and also wrong on every imaginable level.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Trucks
The truck has become an enduring symbol of rural life, but sometimes a truck is just a truck, no matter what conservatives think.