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Women’s autonomy over their bodies

To talk about this subject requires an all-round view. The conception of liffe as a straight line passing through points A, B, C, D is an over-simplification. This abstraction doesn’t correspond to anyone’s life, although sometimes we insist that it does.   Mabel Encinas   Life is more like a […]

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Thinking like trees

It is common to think of taxonomy, the branch of science concerned with classification, in terms of hierarchy:  divisions between Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (made easier to remember with the mnemonic Kieran, Please come over for gay sex) are seen to define the natural order in much […]

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Critical journalism confronts dominant perspectives

Critical journalism responds to the dominant views of powerful agents, bringing together texts and images that expose additional information and evidence that would have been dismissed otherwise and that allow an analytical approach.   Mabel Encinas   By contrast with journalism that perpetuates the status quo and does not question […]