I’ve just been reading the Wikipedia article about Arthur C. Clarke, because I wanted to look something up, and I found some things I did not know, including the fact that he was held in such high esteem in Sri…
Category: Opinion
William Moulton Marston; Wonder Man
I watched a superb documentary on Sky recently, called “Secret History of Comics: The Truth About Wonder Woman” It was about American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), who invented the lie detector. But, also, a…
What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never walked?
Someone sent me a link to this short TED talk by Paula Stone Williams It’s very good. The key quote I took from it was “What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never…
Review – Alita: Battle Angel
I’ve been a long time fan of the manga Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as Gunnm (銃夢 Ganmu, literally “gun dream”), by Yukito Kishiro. Alita’s search for identity has been something extremely special and personal to me, and it…
What You Need to Know About Transgender Rights
This article was published a year ago, and is still utterly superb. The fight for transgender rights is an urgent battle against what some have called the last bastion of socially acceptable bigotry. If we take the notion seriously that…
Photo manipulation
I read an article in The Guardian today about “Selfie Dysphoria” It’s an interesting article about how selfie filters are driving many people to use cosmetic surgery to make their face look more like their selfies, and how in the…
Women in Motorsport – the W Series
It’s been recently reported in the Media [1][2] that there is a new female-only motorsport series being launched called “W Series”. British IndyCar driver Pippa Mann calls it a “sad day for motorsport” and that it will segregate women drivers.…
Doctor Who is now a woman
Just after Wimbledon Men’s Final, fans everywhere learned what they had been waiting till the end of the match for. Not who won, but who would be the new Doctor Who. To the shock of few, the new Doctor is…
Two people, or two facets?
As a genderfluid / two-spirit / 3rd gender person, I sometimes present as female and sometimes present as male. I’ve covered this several times in the past. Often I see fellow t-girls referring to their girl side in the third…
Review: Binky nail varnish
I was in my local Co-Op the other day and they had Binky nail varnish on special offer at £2 a go. Having really enjoyed wearing my best friend’s “Countess” by Barry M that we both wore during a weekend…