Last Wednesday evening, I watched as my country made history, and became the 13th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage. It was an exciting evening, in ways that I hadn’t quite anticipated. I’m ashamed to admit I’d never been interested enough in the inner workings of parliament to tune into the parliamentary TV livestream, but I did last Wednesday, and it was a real... »
A while ago, we here at TS started a series about eating disorders, and I do believe it’s time for an update. Recently I’ve been spending a lot of my time at Science of EDs, a completely fascinating website that provides a lot of information about studies and the science of eating disorders. A couple of the articles I ran across tackled the idea that a fear of gaining weight is a defining... »
Recently I’ve been getting back into playing and writing music as a means to blow off steam, flex my creative muscles and do something productive that doesn’t count towards my degree (like this something I like to do). This got me thinking about the role of music in out lives, and as a reflection of our society. I was momentarily pleased on reflection, then I remembered that ‘Rac... »
Justin Vacula. Oh Justin, Justin. Why did you have to write an article that denied rape culture and leave it there for me to read first thing in the morning after only getting 6 hours of sleep? I mean really? Because you know what that means? It means I have to respond, and honestly, I’d rather just leave you alone to continue festering in your confirmation bias. But no, you caught me when I... »
Ellie Mae O’Hagan wrote an article recently at the Guardian suggesting that feminism should not lose sight of its anger in an attempt to look and sound pleasing. In response, she’s gotten a lot of people telling her that she’s policing, that she’s lost in an image of feminism as angry, or that she’s trying to tell people the right way to do feminism. The problem with ... »
Warning: some adult content. Someone on my facebook page recently posted this link to a counterpoint over all the flurry about how sexist and racist and generally horrible the Oscars were. The gist of the article is that the opening song “We Saw Your Boobs” is essentially right, because no matter how serious or good a film is that features a nude actress, all that men will see is that ... »
This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The goal of NEDAwareness Week is to educate and increase understanding of eating disorders, as well as decrease stigma against them. I challenge each of you to educate yourselves about some new aspect of eating disorders this week, and if there’s something you’re curious about, then please ask in the comments. As you may remember we... »
Mindy posted this picture from a mysterious “Miss NASA” beauty pageant on our Tumblr the other day. She is wearing a tiara and interacting with a Dalek-like machine. Although it is unclear whether she was just told to touch it and vaguely smile into the distance. According to Artifacting, who published these photos, this was taken in 1968 or 1969. It turns out that according to Lori Ga... »
