“Rape Is Not a Data Problem: The tech sector has tackled sexual violence like it tackles laundry delivery, and entirely missed the point”

Undercover Colors and Good2Go are technological tattletales. Both are designed to tell the truth about an encounter, with the objectivity and dispassion of a database or a chemical reaction. Tattletale solutions make sense only if we see rape, fundamentally, as … Continue reading

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“Rape Is Not a Data Problem: The tech sector has tackled sexual violence like it tackles laundry delivery, and entirely missed the point”

Undercover Colors and Good2Go are technological tattletales. Both are designed to tell the truth about an encounter, with the objectivity and dispassion of a database or a chemical reaction. Tattletale solutions make sense only if we see rape, fundamentally, as … Continue reading

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“Rise of the Feminist Tinder-Creep-Busting Web Vigilante”

Following up on Ula Klein’s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites. It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn’t suffer repercussions. … Continue reading

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“Rise of the Feminist Tinder-Creep-Busting Web Vigilante”

Following up on Ula Klein’s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites. It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn’t suffer repercussions. … Continue reading

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“Mal-Veiling”

A reader brings this to my attention with a request I share it with the rest of our readership: Recently, eight Iranian women have had acid thrown in their faces under the pretext of “mal-veiling”. This kind of attack is … Continue reading

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Now Available: IJFAB Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University), co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University) Medical travel, and more specifically transnational reproductive travel, is a burgeoning practice—and an ethically controversial one because it so clearly capitalizes on differences in … Continue reading

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Now Available: IJFAB Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University), co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University) Medical travel, and more specifically transnational reproductive travel, is a burgeoning practice—and an ethically controversial one because it so clearly capitalizes on differences in … Continue reading

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UN Investigation into Britain’s Violation of Disabled People’s Human Rights

Things have come to a dismal pass for disabled people in Britain. That this country, once seen as a pioneer in the promotion of human rights (admittedly you have to go back to the 1950s and 60s for that, but … Continue reading

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Musings on the Value of “Awareness”

By Leah D. Smith (Director of Public Relations, Little People of America) and Joseph A. Stramondo (Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Administration Department, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions) A middle-aged man who decided to commute to work through … Continue reading

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“Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man”

I look back on all my strenuous efforts, because I really did try, I tried hard to be a man, to be a good man, and I see how I failed at that. I am at best a bad man. … Continue reading

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Left Out in the Cold: Seven Reasons not to Freeze Your Eggs

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University) In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) lifted the experimental designation on human egg freezing. At this time, it was careful to indicate that freezing technology should not to be used for elective … Continue reading

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Sorting Through Mixed Reactions to Malala Yousafzai (Or: A Brief Rant on the Centrality of the Humanities for a Flourishing Democracy)

Malala Yousafzai first came to my attention when a friend posted a link to a video of an interview she gave on The Daily Show. He is someone for whose intellect and soundness of judgment I have great respect, and … Continue reading

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