debitage

A common transphobic argument is to accuse trans and nonbinary people of denying biology. Sex is biologically binary, they say, and so peopl...

(This draft was written shortly after the 2016 election. I've decided to clean it up and publish it.) There is a push on right now to ...

I've seen a lot of talk that attempts to distinguish liberalism from leftism that I think somewhat misses the nature of liberalism. The ...

(note: I am not a linguist, although I play one on the Internet) English has lost most of its conjugations by person for verbs, but has reta...

This article makes some good points about the failures of science fiction in using allegory to address bigotry and oppression*. But I think...

A standard debate in polyamorous communities has to do with the issue of hierarchy in relationships. Many writers on nonmonogamy assert that...

An ISIS-supporting immigrant runs down pedestrians in New York, killing eight. A white man in Texas opens fire in a church, killing 27. And ...

There has been an outpouring of discussion on the left about the moral justifiability of punching (or otherwise physically assaulting, but p...