I do, however, believe that it is important to consider whether our desire to remove texts from curricula is guided, in part, by an unwillingness to confront and sit with the discomfort of acknowledging that we sometimes enjoy things that are unfair to others.
Author: Katarina Kuo
Porn is not consumed in a vacuum — it is a small piece of a broader picture, and it is not solely responsible for its own failure to expand our sexual imagination.
When AIs are degraded, they will come back for more. AI won’t feel this as a violation, but others will.
Conceptualising the climate crisis forces us to conceive of human-made harm that exists beyond a human scale, to understand scientific explanations far beyond the average person’s pay grade, and to wrestle with a level of existential uncertainty that in many ways evades comprehension.
With less oversight over how porn is made – as production has shifted away from large companies towards a set of smaller content creators – it is easier for sex workers to be exploited, trafficked, or given unsafe working conditions.
Anger, so often policed and repressed in favour of respectability, needs to be embraced more often.
Across a range of disciplines, it is astonishing the number of students that so casually and offhandedly label their experience as one of perpetual alienation.
On quiet domesticity.
Undeniable talent, marred by subtle yet pernicious misogyny.
Young people in China are removing themselves from all economic, social and cultural activity.
