Couple wearing matching gray shirts that read 'FREE DAD HUGS' posing together, with rainbow heart detail, on the left; crowd at a Pride event with rainbow flags celebrating on the right.

Shame versus Pride

Pride Month is important for the mental and emotional health of the LGBTQ+ community as a necessary and essential counter to an increasingly hostile world. Even ordinary heteronormativity can create a feeling of unbelonging for rainbow folk; the increasingly weaponised

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What Is Evil?

What Is Evil?

Many people were horrified when Shirley Jackson short story ‘The Lottery’ came out, about a small town who annually practiced the ritual of stoning someone as a sacrifice for a good harvest. They cried, “How could that ever happen?” But what if instead of the lottery being

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9/11, Charlie Kirk, and the Politics of Hate

24 years ago, we were brutally attacked because of political and religious false doctrines of hate.  We were horrified that people were so indoctrinated that they would give up their own lives to perform acts of terrorism.   We mourned, and we engaged in the

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