Tempting Thighs
By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator I was on an overnight bus heading to Bimbilla from Accra with the first Humanist Service Corps team. As usual in Ghana, […]
Tag Archives: gender
Where Witchcraft Trials Still Happen
By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator In the Northern Region of Ghana, Halloween isn’t so much not celebrated as not heard of. The closest I got to celebrating was giving […]
No Cherry, No Worries
By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator It is 2016. In most parts of the world, people are speaking out more and more about equality and women are standing […]
Power & Authority in the Witch Camps of Northern Ghana
By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Two Simultaneous Systems of Government: Constitutional and Chieftaincy The women who have been accused of witchcraft in northern Ghana are all but powerless. They find […]
“No Reason It Should Be You”: Against Destiny in The Magicians
In genre stories, how often is the apparent Chosen One told he’s actually not special? How often do the architects of the Master Plan despair that said plan is less “master” […]
Nima, Ghana
By Matan Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer An open courtyard. A tin roof rusted red. A useless fan hangs from a wooden scaffold, its cords frayed vine-like. A woman sweeps the yard, […]
Galatea’s Legacy: Science Fiction & the Artificial Woman
This summer’s Terminator Genisys, a kinda-sorta-reboot with several visual and dialogue callbacks to both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is not the abject disaster it could have been. […]
Applied Sentience 