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at Jennifer's Uncharted Worlds blog

Non-mainstream sexuality/relationship stuff, including subcategories bisexuality, polyamory, BDSM, transgender, and wider LGBTQ community politics. Catch-all category.

You would say that

On the discounting of first-hand voices in favour of external “experts”. This is an obstacle to determining ethical and effective courses of action. Featuring quotes from Marcus Riggs and Charlotte Cooper, and references to the Children, Schools and Families Bill.

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Dysfunctional news media

The book Flat Earth News gives an invaluable insight into the present-day news media. Highly recommended for all activists. Quotes and discussion here.

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Oppression and places to stand with it

On the last day of the year, a slightly retrospective flavour exploring one theme of my year.

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Gender, tradition, education: responses

Other people’s responses to my related post a couple of weeks ago, plus a reply from my MP.

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Mainstream school, girls in immigrant &/or religious families, “British Values” etc

An angle I hadn’t considered before on recent struggles around UK education law.

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International Celebrate Bisexuality Day

In honour of the day, just a link to an article I wrote a few years ago…

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Link roundup

Miscellaneous stuff from around the web which I thought was worth passing on, including some news about home-based education in England.

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Information as activist resource

More thoughts about remembering or losing information, this time from an activism angle.

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Not everyone is bisexual

Musings on a saying of multiple meanings, now a new badge design.

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Not herding cats: job design for teams

My thoughts on how to construct a workable team of lots of people, with particular reference to BiCon, the UK bisexuality conference/convention.

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Activism energy supplies

Some thoughts on the need to nurture the “next generation” of activists, influenced by Starhawk’s i.m.o. excellent book “Truth or Dare“.

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Me and BiCon

This is a kind of “where I’m coming from now myself” with regard to BiCon, to fill in some missing context around my recent (and possible future) writings about it and related subjects.

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