By: Daniel Mosh Birth control has had a precarious relationship with the Catholic Church in the past. Since the inception of oral contraception, i.e. The Pill, in the 1960s and the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973, the Catholic Church has perhaps been the most vocal…
By: Eugene Meritol "One study asked heterosexual men how comfortable and anxious they are around gay men. Based on these scores, they then divided these men into two groups: men that are homophobic, and men who are not. These men were then shown three, four-minute videos. One video depicted…
Note: This is a raw, unedited letter shared by Ms. Henry Lawrence Correctional Center 10930 Lawrence Road Sumner, IL 62466 Dear Mr. Hunt: This letter to you has been a long time coming. If you don’t remember me, my name is Kathy Henry, your ex-girlfriend, Gertrude’s daughter. You came…
By Ron Kemp I've always said that the world would be a better place if every single gay, bi, lesbian, and transgender person in the world would just come out. En masse, if necessary. That way, there would be no remaining doubt that we truly are everywhere. We're your…
Taboo Jive's featured song of the week is Rockstar, by Nickelback. This song had an undeniable pull and popularity to it when it was first released back in August of 2006. 'The lyrics can be taken as generalization of the stereotypical rockstar lifestyle celebrating material success at the expense…
TO: SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER FREDRIK REINFELDT We ask you to defend the fundamental human rights of ALL Swedish citizens, and do everything in your power to eliminate Sweden's outdated "forced sterilization" law. The majority of Parliament is in favor of the law's removal - but progress is being thwarted…
By: Matt Kepp As the Boxing With Pencils site states, its creators are primarily dedicated to "justice, educating the world about happy pooping one day at a time, and giving the world utterly inane, often crude and totally random shit it needs to be a better place." In essence,…
By: Dan Minchkin Un Chien Andalou (which translates An Andalusian Dog) was directed Luis Bunuel and written by both Bunuel and Salvador Dali. If you're unfamiliar with Bunuel's work, then you should at least be familiar with Dali's iconic surrealist work, which comes across in the 1929 silent surrealistic…
According to string theory, the universe has not just three or four dimensions, but eleven dimensions, ten of space and one of time. We do not observe the extra spatial dimensions because they are curled tightly around each other. The most distant galaxy ever observed is estimated to be…
By Tom Hastings Conflict can be understood as the motor of change, that which keeps relationships and social structures honest, alive, and dynamically responsive to human needs, aspirations, and growth. (Lederach, 2003, p. 18). When John Paul Lederach writes about conflict, he makes it sound like conflict is our…