A lot of people think about sexual orientation and gender as stable characteristics of the self–they think that people are just born a certain way. While it’s certainly true that many people do demonstrate stability in these traits throughout their lives, not everyone does. Many people experience some degree of sexual and/or gender fluidity, which…
Author: Jaya Prisco
Finding Pleasure in Liberation: Gender, Body Image & Communication
What does it mean to be non-binary? How about gender fluid? And queer? Why does language matter? How can we reconnect with our bodies? How can we liberate ourselves from gender roles in the name of more pleasure? How can we effectively communicate our needs to partners? Non-Binary Gender & Sex Therapist-Turned Coach, Rae McDaniel…
Fluid
Featured February 4th, 2022 • Nicole Hobbs • Jaya Prisco • Aimee Balint •Bryce • Bethany • Dear momYou’ve always wanted a daughterWhat if I told you you had one?Not always but sometimes Dear momI will not call myself your daughter,I will not ask you to stop calling me your son,I am sorry I cannot give you a wordAll I have are…
Gender Fluidity and Androgyny
The current orthodox interpretation of gender as it appears in modern society is a type of manufactured consent. Manufactured consent, an idea suggested by linguist Noam Chomsky is the process that large institutions use to produce “common sense” by ways in which the people following the dogmatism generally have no idea where the common idea…
Your Plastic Diet
Latest research has found that we are consuming approximately 5 grams of plastic each week! That’s almost the weight of a credit card. Find out how much plastics you’re consuming and what you can do about it
Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic
Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he’s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
How to be a PLASTIC GAME CHANGER
In the episode, Amanda Keetley – founder of organisation Less Plastic who gives practical tips on cutting plastic pollution. Book “PLASTIC GAME CHANGER – How to reduce plastic in your organisation to make a difference to plastic pollution” is out now. The episode talks about individual and collective responsibility for plastic pollution, what it takes…
Plastic Pollution
Likely after concrete, there is probably not a product of modernity more ubiquitous than plastic. Similarly, with concrete following, there is also not many products more synonymous with the failures of modernity than plastic.Plastic and plastics bags aggressively entered the market in the 1960s with companies like Mobil, Colloplast and Kroger beginning rapid and comprehensive…
“On Time and Water”, An Interview with Andri Saer Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker. In this interview, Andri discusses his new book On Time and Water and our relationship to time in an age of ecological crisis. With Iceland having recently lost its first large glacier, the Ok glacier, Andri discusses the ways in which geological time is beginning…
The disarming case to act right now on climate change
In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world’s attention. “The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and…