Human rights and justice
Disability
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Prejudice is more of a problem for some disabilities than others
It’s welcome that there’s more awareness of ableism, but further progress means digging into the varied ways it plays out
by Matt Huston
Human rights and justice
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The day the Taliban banned women like me from working
With my daughters’ education cancelled, I thought the regime had done its worst. Then a new message came from my office
by Nargis
Human rights and justice
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Hidden in translation – Jewish resistance to Spanish empire
Translation as a powerful form of resistance: how a 16th-century Sephardic Jew conquered the colonial narrative from Spain
by Flora Cassen
Disability
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A few simple steps could empower the world’s largest minority
What makes people like me disabled is not our bodies but the societies we live in. Let me inspire a rethink in your attitudes
by Paras Shah
Civic life
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The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’
What the radical-feminist origins of the slogan ‘the personal is political’ can tell us about language in our own divided age
by Guy Stevenson
Hallucinations and delusions
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Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis
How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis
by Rosa Ritunnano & Kasim Qureshi
Habits and routines
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Prison life puts the ‘time work’ we all do into sharp relief
Trapped in an ocean of time, prisoners exemplify the human impulse to take temporal experience into our own hands
by Michael G Flaherty
Progress and the future
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Over-optimism about racial justice is widespread and harmful
Achieving racial justice takes work, but narratives of ever-unfolding progress can make it seem as if the job is already done
by Michael Kraus
Civic life
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed
For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism
by Peter Wirzbicki
Gender
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Talk of toxic masculinity puts the blame in all the wrong places
Toxic masculinity discourse harms vulnerable boys and men and distracts society from the true sources of gender inequity
by Heidi Matthews
Conflict and conflict resolution
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Democracy needs discomfort and distrust is a political virtue
Distrust thy neighbour: why expressing distrust is a necessary precondition for civic friendship and a robust democracy
by Meena Krishnamurthy
Trauma and PTSD
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Racism has broadened ‘Black time’ to an always and everywhere
As a Black American woman, my life runs to a time embodied in a racist past, a time lost to trauma that I’ll never get back
by Desirée H Melton