Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...
Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...
Everyone needs to read this.
"Heartbreak is at the heart of all revolutionary consciousness. How can it not be? Who can imagine another world unless they already have been broken apart by the world we are in?" - Gargi Bhattacharyya
www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...
On philosophy: spring/summer 2026. Events are free via zoom, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK April 13- On Melancholy - Jonathan Williams April 20- AI and the Digital: the AI Con - Emily Bender & Alex Hanna April 27- Data Equals - Colin Koopman May 4, June 1, and July 6- The Philosopher and the News - Alexis Papazoglou May 1 - Philosophies of the South: Decolonizing Knowledge - Radha D'Souza May 18- Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy - Cecile Malaspina May 25- Philosophies of the South: (De)bordering the human - Nandita Shamra Twahirwa June 8- Philosophies of the South: On Indigenous Inhumanities - Mark Minch-de Leon June 15- Towards a Critical Theory of Finance - Paul North June 22- AI and the Digital: Data Equals - Audrey Borowski June 29- Philosophies of the South: Decolonizing the Self: Learning Land, Unlearning Empire - Leny Mendoza Strobel & S. Lily Mendoza July 13- Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist - David Bather Woods Information and registration at thephilosopher1923.org/events
Announcing: On Philosophy: Spring/Summer 2026
Events are free via Zoom, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK
featuring Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jonathan Williams, Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, Colin Koopman, Radha D'Souza, Cecile Malaspina, Nandita Sharma, and so many more!
#Philosophy #PhilEvents
Adults forced a young girl named “Cara” to remove her mask for their comfort.
Cara’s mother had cancer and was immune compromised.
Cara caught covid, gave it to her mom and her mom died.
Imagine doing that to a child because you don’t want to see a mask?
It’s appalling.
We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes…
Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3–4C
Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires
Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Northern Star: NIU graduate student wins national award for research inspired by personal COVID experience
'Otaigboria, an NIU anthropology graduate student...research examines cultural models of long COVID..specifically among Nigerian diaspora communities in US'
northernstar.info/134341/news/...
The irony that the people who don’t mask in order to be accepted by society and their social circles—knowing they’ll be shunned for masking because they shun those who mask—will end up abandoned by society and their social circles when they inevitably get Long Covid because they don’t mask.
I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.
"While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to push for better quality evidence & ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language & ritual as a costume"
Gamification meets TB -- a free arcade game for World TB Day!!
Jason Madhosingh's wife is a TB doc, and he built this game in her honor!
You can shoot at Mycobacterium tuberculosis and prevent them from destroying lungs!
Please share and make it go viral!!
tberadicator.com
New form of Labour trans apologism has just dropped, where we pretend not being an outspoken ally of the trans community is a good thing, because it means you're not making it about yourself.
“She’s the exception, I am the rule.”
Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!
In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
this is why I got into Black feminist theory. the research on sexual violence was VERY white when I first started researching like 15-20 years ago. in the West, gender is VERY racialized
If you care about racial justice, please take half hour out of your day/week/month/year/decade/century to listen to Dr. Rinaldo Walcott break down the seduction of "diversity," which does not actually build power for Black, Indigenous, & racialized communties to actually access equitable outcomes! 👀
Good Law Project still needs a lot of donations to help it keep going in its fight against establishment transphobia. Please donate if you can. And share this.
🌀 Indoor air quality, research stuck in silos.
Authors call for integrated teams across engineering, epidemiology, & aerosol science to study real‑world transmission, build shared language, & drive practical, scalable interventions that cut airborne disease risk.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“Black Americans have experienced high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalization, and death”“Those factors are now leading experts to sound the alarm about what may come next: a prevalence of long Covid in the Black community and a lack of access to treatment.”
www.msm.edu/RSSFeedArtic...
Screenshot of a CIDRAP article titled “Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections.” Subheading shows “News brief | February 21, 2026” by Laine Bergeson, with topic listed as Healthcare-Associated Infections. Below the headline is an image of a patient’s hand in a hospital setting with an IV cannula inserted and secured with medical tape, tubing visible, suggesting clinical care and infection risk context.
Spain: Healthcare-Associated Infections Kill 3× More People Than Car Accidents Each Year.
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) cause about 6,774 deaths a year in Spain — Over 3× more than car accidents — showing a serious but often overlooked health risk.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-a...
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
Numerous accusations from critical media outlets claimed the clinic was a “transing factory” that ignored “holistic” approaches to care and was recklessly prescribing puberty suppressant hormones, known as puberty blockers, to children. One article from The Times, published in 2022, claimed that at least 1,000 families were planning mass legal action against the Tavistock gender clinic for rushing youngsters into taking puberty blockers. However, a freedom of information (FOI) request to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, shared by Yorkshire Bylines, revealed that, between 2012 and 2022, only eight complaints over healthcare provisions had been lodged.
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
What this does to those of us with even the thickest of skins is pretty traumatic at the best of times. It wears you down and out.
- So instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask simply: does it counteract power disparities, or reinforce them?
This is the fundamental anarchist question. We can ask it in every situation; every further question about values, tactics, and strategy proceeds from it.
