Dear writers, bloggers, authors, and TJ fans who'd like contribute, A way to contribute to TabooJive.com is to give us "your two cents" by writing and submitting short 300 - 800 word article blogs on any topic related to our theme of taboo. As a content contributor signed up…
By Kathy Henry Editor note: This was one of our runner-up stories from January's writing contest submissions. Thank you Kathy, well done! x - TJ Everyone thought she was a stupid, uneducated slut. She didn't finish high school or have a job and her only occupation in life was…
WHOF's website www.WHOF.net reached an amazing SIX MILLION hits on February 6th, 2012 marking a new milestone for the website that makes it their mission to represent, go to bat for and protect equal rights. WHOF.net which works in tandem with the Wipeout Homophobia On Facebook facebook group, and…
By OcJim “It’s halftime in America” said Clint Eastwood in his rasping voice promoting GM in a Super Bowl halftime commercial. Continuing the age-old American “apple-pie” exceptionalism trademark in commercials, it is a cheerleading rally, rousing up an America pulling together, heralding the bailed-out Chrysler and GM as number…
Self injury has been such a hushed topic in the world. At one point, there was a long time of silence until now. Sometimes, it takes more than looking at some pale, young girl’s bleeding arm and realize that in order to fall low enough to bleed on the outside; you have to be bleeding on the inside as well.
By: Taboo Jive Editors I would like to first thank everyone who submitted work to the first month of our 2012 Taboo Jive Fiction Writing Contest. It was an amazing turnout, especially since we didn't offer a huge prize. But, as many of you have probably tried to publish…
By Jim Hoover Acrimony and lies are so much a part of Republican rhetoric that we need a full-time monitor just to catch and register the breadth and the scope of Republican fabrication, for it is rampant. We also need a historian to research the wild references made by…
A couple of years ago, I read Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I was mesmerized by the passion and anger in his words and although we are in the second decade of the 21st century, his words still resonate. This letter I am…
In July 2010, as I read yet another comment of not so thinly veiled hate on a thread on Facebook, two things happened to me: (1) I vowed never to keep quiet in the presence of a hate comment (on Facebook, or anywhere else), and (2) this quote—baldly borrowed…
By: Daniel Finnester - Hirsutism: The study of hair and its cultural implications. (see disclaimer below) For the purpose of this article hirsutism is the sociological study of men's facial hair. So, what does hair mean on a guy's face? It says a lot more about the individual than…