Knowing that sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional ill health, researchers Lucy Platt, Pippa Grenfell, Rebecca Meiksin, Jocelyn Elmes, Susan G. Sherman, Teela Sanders, Peninah Mwangi, Anna-Louise Crago wanted to find out why. To… Continue Reading
HeathenHarvest.org posted an interesting piece by Jason O’Toole about Jeanne Robert Foster aka Soror Hilarion. An excerpt reads: “Who was this Jeanne? Thelemites and sundry other occultists might know her only as one of the pack of Crowley’s ‘Scarlet Women’… Continue Reading
Today in “we guessed this, but peer-reviewed science makes for better citations,” researchers Brittany Croft et al. at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute learned more about how a baby’s sex is determined; it’s not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves… Continue Reading
The organizers of the Trans-States conference have announced the first confirmed keynote speakers for the second installment of the conference, “Trans- States: The art of revelation.” The conference will be held at University of Northampton, in the U.K. September 13… Continue Reading
Noted occultural commentator Erik Davis reports that work on his latest book is in its final stages. Sez he: “I am happy to report that High Weirdness: Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies is with the publisher, or I should say publishers.… Continue Reading
KUOW reports that the School of Medicine at the University of Washington is one of three sites in the country testing the gel, which is “made from a female contraception hormone, progestin, and testosterone.” Testers are rubbing the gel on… Continue Reading
The organizers of the Trans-States conference have announced that the sophomore conference will be titled, “Trans- States: The art of revelation” and held at University of Northampton, in the U.K. September 13 & 14th, 2019 and are calling for proposals… Continue Reading
Observer opens: “Here’s something you rarely hear in the discussion of robots designed for the sole purpose of having sexual relations with humans: Is the sex consensual?” “Unicole Unicron, who describes herself as a “gender non-conforming Pop Star Cult Leader,”… Continue Reading
The scholarly journal Nature recently posted a paper on the world’s oldest-known animal cave art, painted at least 40,000 years ago in Borneo. The paper starts: Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years… Continue Reading
Happy election day! Yes, I voted. “A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested. “The object, nicknamed ‘Oumuamua, meaning “a… Continue Reading