Baby, It’s a Mobile World!

By Nicole Campbell It’s the 21st century, and everywhere you look, everywhere you go, you will find someone using a mobile phone or some other portable device to go online. It’s just something that we all take for granted. Yet only about twenty years ago it was all quite different; using the internet used to be strictly a…

Me and My Mobile

By Brea Glasko We are all in a relationship with our phones. The mobile world we live in has turned our phone into something more than just a piece of technology; our mobile phone is our little companion–there in times of joy or sorrow, there when traveling the world, and even there for the boring…

Pedophilia: The Most Difficult Discussion We Must Have

By James MacDonald When discussing the rights of sexual minorities, one is unlikely to challenge the tolerance of a progressive audience. For reasons that may at first appear obvious, this attitude does not generally extend to pedophilia. Then again, why should it? The truth is that pedophilia is significantly more complex than most people realise,…

Death Across Cultures

By Nicolette Campbell In the multicultural world of the 21st century we are, more than ever, exposed to the vast variety of our fellow human beings. We have the chance to observe the amazing differences in the foods we eat, the fashions we wear, and the holidays and traditions we observe. Yet one subject that…

The Erasure of Bisexuality in the Media

By James MacDonald There is a recurring gag in the satirical British cop show A Touch of Cloth, in which inspector Anne Oldman is forced to repeatedly remind her partner, Jack Cloth, that she is bisexual, not gay. The following is a typical exchange between the characters: Jack: So you’re gay? Anne: Bi, Jack. Jack:…