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Modesty; the New Sexy? Hijab or Hotpants, We’re all Under Social Scrutiny

March 15, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 2 Comments

Whether I'm wearing a hijab or hotpants, I'm never inviting you to grab me, overly-sexualise me or label me as a meek little virgin Read more

Radicalisation all Over the Place – The Left and Right are in this Mess Together

March 13, 2017 | by Zorana Vuk | 0 Comments

While the Left and Right fight over pronouns, statistics, racist-or-not terminology and other life-threatening issues, civil society needs to rethink itself Read more

An Interview with Mikey Weinstein – Founder & President, Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF)

March 13, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 2 Comments

Mikey Weinstein is the Founder & President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Not only that, Weinstein is, arguably, the founder of the fight against the Evangelical intrusion into the military system. an intrusion which has breached the separation of church and state. Mikey is on the front-lines. He tells the what, the how, and the why in this interview with Scott. Read more

Admit it, Your Addiction to Wine isn’t Sophisticated

March 11, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Alcohol is marketed to us, particularly middle class women, as elegant, delicate and a little bit rebellious. Whatever the companies tell you: It's ethanol. So what's with the addiction? Read more

An Interview with Shari Allwood – Executive Director of SMART Recovery

March 11, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 1 Comments

In this interview, Shari Allwood talks about SMART Recovery with its Secular and scientifically based approaches to addiction using non-confrontational motivational, behavioural and cognitive methods Read more

An Interview with René Hartmann – Chairman of the International League of the Non-Religious and Atheists

March 10, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

René Hartmann is the chairman of IBKA (International League of the Non-Religious and Atheists). In the interview with Scott, René discusses atheism, atheists, and the IBKA. Read more

An Interview with Tyler Owen, President of Tri-State Humanists

March 10, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s the short story regarding your coming into humanism? I’ve found that many Humanists come from a Christian background, and I’m no exception. I was raised as a conservative Christian in middle-America, but even as a child I found that my church seemed more interested in self-aggrandising and sermonising than in applying […] Read more

An Interview with Anders Stjernholm

March 7, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Anders Stjernholm is a comedian and Chairman of the Atheistic Society. In this interview he talks about atheism, scepticism and Ateistisk Selskab. Read more

Interview with Dr. Nora Repo

March 6, 2017 | by Zorana Vuk | 0 Comments

Nora Repo is a Finnish Doctor of philosophy who specialises in Islam in the Balkans and has a lot of experience in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue initiatives. Her doctoral dissertation covered Albanian women in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which identified some very interesting tendencies in interplay of identities, Islam and religiosity. Read more

A Stand for Equality, a Stand Against Objectification

March 5, 2017 | by Lottie Moore | 3 Comments

We have an opportunity here to change the landscape and make a stand for equality and ultimately the safety of women. It is not an opportunity to be missed and it certainly is not an occasion where the ‘locker room’ narrative can win. Read more

It began with Rene Descartes and was called the Age of Enlightenment-Another Patriarchal mirror of truth.

You can see Hatun regularly on YouTube. They film her ongoing confrontations with Muslim men at Speakers Corner (wearing her…

It's good to be reminded of this courageous woman Stella, and would that the police had acted more alertly when…

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