Stan culture doesn’t mean turning your back on the problematic things a person’s image embodies. It means being inspired by what a person’s image opens up to you, taking what it means in the popular consciousness and seeing how it can send you in a direction that makes your life better.
Celebrities with single names: an academic analysis.
We as a society often hold up celebrities with a single name as the epitome of success as they are evoked as an individual by so little, showing how transcendent they are, but perhaps we are overlooking the inherent paternalistic and racist subtleties of denying a person their full name in the media?
This IWD, these are the women who inspire me.
What inspires us can change over time. As our thinking develops and changes we seek new heroes who speak to the things we come to value. Every girl* should have more than one hero: here are just a few of mine.
Pascal’s Wager and panic attacks.
Pascal's use of decision mathematics was new to me, and truly fascinating: it made me think of predestination as a mathematical probability rather than (an impossible) certainty, which is radically liberating when applied to everyday life.
On Education (I)
As a school librarian, I sometimes see places where we can march forward to a better standard of universal education. I would like to suggest that we are not using the technology to its fullest effect.
Late Romantic 