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The perils of speaking about Thai elephant exploitation
Recent raids on two wildlife charities in Thailand have caused outrage in wildlife protection circles. These incidents have been interpreted as an attempt to intimidate and silence wildlife conservationists speaking out about illegal elephant trading within the country. Suspicions as to the complicity of Thai authorities in the trade of elephants are well-founded, and are likely to be behind efforts to muzzle campaigners, writes Susannah Waters. Add comment (10)
The many faces of feminism: Interview with Emily Maguire
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Meet vegan superhero Vivian Sharpe
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The healing power of sex work
Put aside your stereotypes about the sex industry and consider that many people, of all sexes and genders, can find the work empowering and healing. Wr...
Elder and nursing home abuse: A universal problem
Abuse to the elderly both in home settings and facility settings is an atrocious problem seen throughout the world. It’s time to take a stand against ...
Feminism must stop ignoring animals
The goal of feminism is to dismantle the hierarchical system that values certain groups over others: men over women, whites over blacks, straights ove...
PETA: Sexy or sexist?
Long accused of objectifying women in the name of animal rights activism, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ latest ad campaign has raised t...
Girls are not peripheral: Time to kill the ‘Smurfette principle’
Strong female characters such as Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series and Sookie Stackhouse...
A guide to feminist erotic modeling
How do you reconcile the principles of feminism with nude or erotic modeling? Refusing to cover up y...
The many faces of feminism: Interview with Emily Maguire
More people are starting to call themselves and others ‘feminists’, but is this appropriate or an ap...
Nobody rides for free: The true cost of social media
We may think that social media is ‘free’, but users are simply commodities whose value is determined...
Our iPad hypocrisy
We love our beautiful high-tech machines so much that we are prepared to turn a blind eye to the con...
Murdoch and Miliband: Cutting the ties between media and politics?
If the UK Labour party gets re-elected after the refusal by party leader Ed Miliband to grovel to th...
Meet vegan superhero Vivian Sharpe
Although written primarily as a Young Adult novel, The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero by...
Animal agriculture: A huge waste of water
Water scarcity is a reality in many parts of the world, and there is a rapidly growing gap between t...
Children of Cambodia: An orphanage visit
In the second article on her visit to Cambodia in December 2011, British writer Lynda Renham-Cook was ...
True Blood and why I can't get behind all this pro-GBL praise
The vampire TV show, True Blood, has a wide range of gay, lesbian and bisexual characters, but quant...
The challenges of genderqueer love
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radical action to support all life and the environment to transform the political, economic and cultural
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