Tag: domestic violence

• The Serpent’s Egg

  We all see the world through our own experiences, paint it with our own colours, fly our own flags. They seem real to us –unique and even necessary to our identities. As if it’s enough to be simply what we wear; as if we are only what we’ve been taught to show. But sometimes we…

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  February 21, 2017

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  abuse, accusations, antenatal form, Australia, BBC news, consensual sex, domestic violence, gender-based violence, male privilege, poetry, pregnancy, privilege, Shakespeare, talking points, The Winter’s Tale, unintended pregnancy

• Are We There Yet?

  There are some things you just have to get right -or else. But, or else what..?  Continuing exposure, even to the most egregious injustices risks dulling the senses; eliciting not indignant shouts but shrugs, excuses not action. Accommodation. There are benefits that accrue to adaptation, of course –if one lives next to a pulp mill,…

  gozzter

  December 31, 2014

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  accommodation, adaptation, Canadian parliamentarians, China’s new draft law, cultural folkways, cultural relativism, domestic abuse, domestic violence, folkways, Here be dragons, physical abuse, sexual harassment