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They come at dawn
Why is a demonstration an acceptable exercise of freedom of expression, but not an encampment?
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Big Bird gets their COVID vaccination
Right-wing commentators outraged that the public face of vaccination is friendly Big Bird
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Go the F**k to Sleep?
The genre of parenting advice books that focus on children’s sleep might seem like a strange archive for a feminist philosopher. Like many of us, I only started reading them because I had a baby who didn’t sleep well and I was exhausted.
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Anaesthetic time, pandemic redux
Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge isn’t about any single topic. It makes a case that “experience” is a social and political category, and so some things we undergo do not get included.
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Gendered double standards?
The headlines read: equality has been achieved. There were simultaneously six female premiers governing over 85% of Canada’s population.
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Thoughts on gender and sexual violence
It was via my Facebook newsfeed that I found out that one man had come forward, accusing Jian Ghomeshi of sexual assault.
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Sleep at Durham
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to give a talk on sexual assault and unconsciousness at Durham University, in a visit cosponsored by the Centre for Medical Humanities.
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Guest post by Madeline Smith
Since I was in a car accident six months ago, I’m unwillingly hyperaware of the way I extend and control my body. Tools like cars, according to Drew Leder’s analysis of embodied experience, allow us to “redesign” our extended bodies to interact with the world.