Where have all the hippies gone?

Communal living. Pacifists. Anti-war music. by Maria Amir Just a simple song of freedom, He was never fightin’ for, No one’s listenin’ when you need ‘em, Ain’t no fun to sing that song no more. Just a broken song of freedom, And the closing of a door, No one’s missin’ till you need...

Talk the Walk

Time to drop the ‘S’ word By Maria Amir “Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it’s our fault and if we get beaten we must have...

The Road to Aletheia

The circle(s) of life… By Maria Amir Heidegger defined the Greek word for ‘truth’ as ‘unhidden-ness’, ‘un-concealment’ and ‘that which is no longer lost’. I have lost count the number of times that I have encountered the expression ‘finding oneself’. The term is...

Expanding the Web

Vote ‘yes’ for digital democracy. By Aaron Grierson   We’ve all experienced the Internet before, perhaps not in all of its glory, but let’s face it, there are some places we just shouldn’t go. Some of the websites we frequently visit are the forms and forums that allow us self-expression....

Writing out a Revolution

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Pop Culture And Sexuality

By Gareth Trew Gaga. Madonna. Bowie. In late 2007, at Carnegie Hall, New York, J.K. Rowling announced to over 1500 youngsters – and subsequently the world – that Albus Dumbledore was gay. Her audience’s reaction was a prolonged explosion of applause, so forceful it elicited her famous response,...