Non-disabled women are twice as likely as disabled women to have the person they accuse of rape charged or summonsed. Now Then speaks to Natalie Shaw, Strategic Lead for Violence Against Women and Girls for South Yorkshire Police. Philippa Willitts* Feminist campaigners have long argued that women are […]
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Written out of history
The creation of a West and East Germany did not come about by design. Stalin wanted a buffer between the USSR and the West, not a separate, self-governing German state, and he looked to German communists who had fled to Russia during the 1930s and survived his purges. Sean […]
We need to welcome diversity
Experiences and voices within a society are diverse and often contradictory. Ignorance and exclusion disable human beings. The issue is not what is wrong with certain people, but what is wrong with a society which makes the lives of some people miserable. Mabel Encinas If we need everybody […]
That fine line between good and dad art
The only explanation for a critic judging the work of an artist is that he thinks the artist seeks to be a critic-and no one tells them otherwise. “Those who know music create it, those who know less teach it, those who know less still organise it, and those who […]
Bogota: Secrets of the city
Just as in former times when the young men and women of Kennedy’s Peace Corps took up the slogan as he was being defeated in Vietnam, we should cry, “Long live the national fruit and medicinal herbs!” Armando Orozco Tovar I can say that the only time that […]
















