Inspired by Mark Eli Kalderon's recent posts about RSS feeds of philosophy journals and the idea of sharing one's electronic bibliographies, I just put 1 and 1 together and had the idea of sharing one's compilations of philosophy feeds online.
I’m holding a competition for the best Twitter tweet-length philosophical argument. Winner gets their tweet on TAR, and much kudos. Tweet length means max. 140 characters (that’s characters, not words). The topic is completely open. Originality is great but neat renderings of existing arguments are welcome too!
I’ll choose a winner from among the entries received by noon (BST) a week from today (i.e. Thursday 16th April).
It’s been shamefully long time since I mentioned LaVena Johnson, the soldier whose apparent rape and murder seems to have been the subject of quite a cover-up. I’m mentioning it again now because there’s a petition to sign. But it’s also worth noting, as Cara does, just how slow both civil rights and women’s organisations have been to join this fight.
There have been high profile cases on the matter of which toilets trans people should be able to use - see here, for instance.
A solution from Thailand: the ‘third sex’ toilets. This link is to a short video, explaining why a school in Thailand introduced a toilet for those pupils who considered themselves transsexual. The pupil interviewed seems quite content with the set up.
Despite being an Obama supporter, I criticised him for the sexist dogwhistles he used against Clinton, as he talked about her “periodically… feeling down”. Now he’s talking about McCain being “confused” and “angry”, which arguably are ageist dogwhistles. What do you think about these?
