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Monday, 7 May 2018
Bigots Got Talent: why we should separate issues of talent from issues of bigotry and criminality
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When news about Kevin Spacey's alleged sexual misconduct emerged, it wasn't long before the public were tweeting that people shou...
Saturday, 5 May 2018
Conference presentations
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Well, it seems like it's all go at the moment, in a good way. Last month I responded to four calls for papers / abstracts, and I've ...
Saturday, 21 April 2018
Stop ad hominem criticisms of Trump
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Judge his actions, not his hair. Trump is orange . His hair is ridiculous . He has tiny hands . He has a micropenis . He looked at the s...
Saturday, 14 April 2018
Phd funding
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I am intending to begin my PhD in five months time. In December I applied for funding from Midlands 3 Cities. The odds are approximately tha...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Airbrushing history: Why we shouldn't edit un-PC programmes from the past
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A couple of months ago we learned that millennials find Friends sexist and homophobic ; now we hear that Apu in The Simpsons is a racist s...
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Comic Relief Dilemma: white saviours secure donations
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Real life moral dilemmas can be so much more poignant than thought experiments; they force us to consider what is genuinely salient, and, I...
Friday, 23 March 2018
"That's not very ladylike"
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Here I argue that we should abandon the term 'ladylike' as a sexist anachronism. My argument rests on the idea that 'ladylike...
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