Homelessness is a notoriously difficult subject to talk about. Unfortunately, during the 80’s, moral aggrandizing attached a type of cultural structure to homelessness that caused a large amount of otherwise decent and empathetic folk to see homelessness in a specific way. A caricature of a homeless white male shaking a cup at pedestrians to buy drugs or…
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Women’s rights
DISCLAIMER: This article was written by a male and so will be limited by their male experience. It’s been a long road for modern feminists and their allies. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we will take a moment to reflect on the ongoing resourcefulness, strength and unity of the modern feminist cause but also…
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…
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…
Global Warming
Climate change is a broad term used to refer to changes in the Earth’s climates, at local, regional, or global scales, and can also refer to the effects of these changes. In recent decades, the term ‘climate change’ is most often used to describe changes in the Earth’s climate driven primarily by human activity since…
Abortion Rights
The right to safe and legal abortion is a fundamental human right protected under numerous international and regional human rights treaties and national-level constitutions around the world. Human rights bodies have repeatedly condemned restrictive abortion laws as being incompatible with human rights norms. Today, 970 million women, representing 59% of women of reproductive age, live…