The Culture of Love: How Polyamory Challenges What We Know About Intimacy

It’s a question virtually all of us will have been stumped by at some point in our lives: what is love? Though of course our answers vary across the board, culturally speaking love is something that for centuries has been understood as a bond or connection solely between two people. Most of us have accepted this definition as fully encompassing what love entails. But can something as vast as love really be reserved for only two people at a time?

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This Ain’t No Good Witch: Race and Gender in Roger Egger’s “The Witch”

So I watched The Witch, the movie that the Guardian calls “a tremendously creepy, immersive horror piece”, the movie that Jex Blackmore, national spokesperson of the Satanic Temple, calls “a declaration of feminine independence”, the movie that the director himself Roger Eggers calls “a Puritan’s nightmare, uploaded into the audience’s mind’s eye.” And it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.

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Pull The Trigger: The Ethics of Political Correctness – Blog Post #1 (Week 1)

So this is my first blog ever, and I feel, like, totally amazing. This is so surreal, you guys. I’m like, totally blushing dude. Anyway *coughs out parodying Valley accent*, let’s talk about these two articles sent courtesy of my TA Dylan. They’re both very interesting perspectives on censorship and the limits of the human […]

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