Tag: colours

• The colour of truth is gray

  It’s back again… Well, actually I suppose it never left. We still seem to be obsessed with the genderization of colours -as if it were an established biological given; as if it were as obvious as handedness, or as necessary as the assignation of gender at birth. ‘Pink is for girls and Blue is for […]

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  July 8, 2020

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  ‘gender reveal’ parties, Aeon.co, André Gide, Aston University in Birmingham UK, Blue, colours, cultural preferences, culture, Frontiers in Psychology, Gender and Our Brains, Gina Rippon, Judy DeLoache, Pink, STEM Barbie doll, Vanessa LoBue

• Here’s ado to lock up honesty

  Sometimes I think we want to simplify things too much; we crave bichromality: on or off, yes or no. We want certainty, not a spectrum. An answer, not another question -a decision, in other words. And yet if we stop to look around, it seems obvious that things are seldom black or white -there are […]

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  January 8, 2020

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  Aeon, Aeon.co, colours, communication, consent, ethical sex, felicity norms, Georgetown University, intent, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, meaning, negotiation, propriety norms, Rebecca Kukla, relationships, safe words, sexual dialogue, sexual language, sexuality, speech act theory, words

• What We Value

  I think it’s about time I revisited the concept of ‘disability’, both in its description and in society at large. It seems to me that the word itself is too value-laden to accept at face value. We are all disabled in one way or another and yet we may not see ourselves like that. And why […]

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  June 14, 2017

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  Alan Cameron, antenatal screening, BBC news, buses, choices, colours, counselling, disability, Down Syndrome, foetal medicine, names, Queen Elizabeth Hospital