I have continued to offer up daily RAKs, although I have not been sure if it has been from a continued commitment or sheer momentum. I am in this space where I know I have learned so much during this past year, have a deep sense I have a long way to go before there would not be...
How did Great Britain improve women education and employment in the 18th and 19th century? Summarise Thomas Paine's contributions to the American revolution. What types of powers does the legislative branch have? How did European imperialism effect the middle east? Why was state s...
In a world of pandemic-driven isolationism, the need for and role of AI-based work practices increases sharply. It is evident that AI will have a dramatic an impact on the future of work as the industrial revolution did in the 19thCentury. But what will the implications be for human emplo...
However, age isn’t simply about attractiveness. If you want to have children, it will be much easier to carry and birth them in your 20s than in your 30s or 40s. I do not care what anyone else has told you. It is much safer for women and their children for a woman to have fini...
Being such a well-known leader in the struggle against South African apartheid, when he would compare Israeli apartheid to the South African version, this was just the kind of support the movement to boycott Israel needed, and Tutu did his best to provide it, over and over again. There ...
“Ah, sex in Japan, always a hot topic in online forums. If you’re a man, and you post: I’m having lots of sex in Japan! then someone will surely reply: The women you’re seeing are all hoes. Or, if you’re a woman and you post the same thing, then: You yourself are a...
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive — RL Stevenson: a blog on books, films, art, music, culture
who have taken up the conversation have fairly typical or “normative” thin bodies. Body positivity has allowed these women to present their bodies in ways that they find more honest, exposing cellulite, stretch marks, and skin folds, which can be liberating for all women. However, body posit...
‘man’ side of things, women were once again relegated to the roles of mothers, educators and houseworkers. Their status had improved from the Tsarist era, but rights won in the early years of the revolution were gradually stripped away, with even abortion being banned once more in 1936. ...
Having sat and walked on the short grass and talked to the cosmopolitan visitors, we started back along the road and almost immediately stopped above a little bay to which we descended and Lesley had a paddle in the sea. The hotel was rather strange and did not live up to its star ratin...