Tag: Sex
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‘We Need Books That Hit Us Like a Painful Misfortune’
Interesting article on Ceasefire looking at Zizek and de Botton, which includes this great quote from Kafka: “Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?…
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Pirating the Pirates: What Were Women Doing on Ships?
The reading I’ve been doing on piracy throws up an interesting question: where are the women? The literature and the culture around piracy is very very male, so did women have a place at all? The answer is that they did, although it is not clear the extent to which women did turn pirate. The…
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The Fundamental Thing About Women That Means They CANNOT Be Bishops
I’ve been following the discussions that have been going on in the Church of England recently over the issue of whether women should be able to be bishops. It appears that the answer is going to be ‘no’. Or, at least, ‘not yet.’ What I’ve not quite been able to tease out is precisely why.…
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Jesus is my Homeboy | iD | Prostitutes and Gifts
A really nice series of images from David LaChapelle for iD magazine (ht Barry Taylor) What I like about them, as Barry says, is that the new lens with which these images have been shot forces us to reappraise scenes from the gospels that have become over-familiar and domesticated. The story of the woman washing…