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: Horton Thompson The Bardo Thodol, also known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is, at its core, a book about dying. Bardo Thodol, though, literally translates as Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, despite its original translator, Theosophist and scholar, Walter Evans-Wentz translating it as The…
“I'm a Christian man and I command a Christian ship! I will not lead men into sin!” ~Captain Thomas Davies (Roots) I recently watched the 1977 television miniseries Roots again, and discovered, again, why it was such a huge hit when it premiered: a sweeping saga about an American…
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…
By: Hank Dulap Jason Dale Bolton was only 16 years old when four assailants brutally tortured and murdered him in front of a group of witnesses that, because of the 'bystander effect' and diffusion of responsibility, neither helped nor testified against the men responsible. To this day, Bolton's assailants…
By: Stephanie Miller "UK lesbian artists band together to combat homophobic bullying." In essence, The L Project is part non-profit organization bringing together lesbian artists for the purpose of drawing awareness to the LGBT community and other organizations involved with the LGBT community, and it's also part artistic project.…
By: Amanda Übermansch Perhaps both the problem and the solution with PIPA and SOPA being so publicized is that many people didn't realize that international legislation aimed at a plurilateral agreement among countries, on a voluntary basis, called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) acts in the same manner as PIPA…
By: Stuart Billingsly Sexual anorexia is a term that refers to a man's inability to get an erection in any sexual context without the aid or supplement of porn—to which in many cases it's entirely solitary. And scientists have found that the number of men suffering from sexual anorexia…