Month: February 2021

• To this hour bewail the injury

  It seems I grew up in a male purdah -I think all men did, and perhaps most still do. And yet, the triumph of women in academics, business, and sports in particular, has begun to open the male curtain a little. No longer would most of us be surprised to find women competing at the […]

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  February 24, 2021

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  BBC Future, concussion, cyclic hormones, David Robson, hormones, https://musingsonwomenshealth.com/2016/10/12/women-are-from-earth/, metabolic differences, Michigan State University, Persian physician Rhazes, purdah, sexual differences, sports, Tracey Covassin, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

• Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow

  Colour has always held me in thrall. I suspect I can trace its origins to those pre-recollection times when my mother read to me as I sat pointing at pictures in whatever book she had chosen for my bedtime. I had my favourites, I imagine, but all I can remember from those very early years […]

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  February 16, 2021

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  Age, art, boundaries, classical art, colour, colouring, colouring books, crayons, edges, Harvard University, Katherine J. Wu, museums, New York Academy of Medicine Library, Smithsonian Magazine, synaesthesia

• Is time really out of joint?

  I imagine there comes a time for each of us when we finally realize we are getting old; a time when we feel that we are just catching up on news so aged that we were only children when it first arose. Information so old that I’m not sure what it should be called –opinion […]

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  February 10, 2021

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  Age, devotion, ethics, Kate Kirkpatrick, King’s College London, love, narcissism, Pyrrhus and Cinéas, reciprocity, Sartre, sexism, sexual hierarchies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

• The raven himself is hoarse

  There was a time when I thought I finally had a handle on gender: it’s a spectrum, right? It’s not defined by biology or chromosomes -it’s how you think, how you feel, who you are. It should not merely be assigned, it should be assumed. And just when I thought I was escaping from the […]

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  February 3, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Bell curve, binaries, biology, cis gendered, Feminism, Gender, philosophy, queer feminism, radical feminism, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, sex, spectrum, University of Warwick, Walt Whitman