Identity and the Self in ‘Hamlet’
“Who’s there?” These are the two words that begin Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is primarily this question, and not “To be or not to be?” with...
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Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View
I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first...
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When Journalism Blurs Into Activism—A Canadian Case Study
This all began with an imaginary teachers’ manual. It ended with us challenging Canada’s self-described “national newspaper” about a range...
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James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human...
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Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science
Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential...
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