Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, P...

Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social ...  Show more

Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum ...  Show more

“I am a paedophile… and I’m very happy about it.” The thousands of handwritten entries in the so-called ‘black notebooks’ of France’s worst ever child sex offender revealed more than 30 years of horrendous abuse. In devastating detail, they described acts carried out on young pat ...  Show more

<div> *Content warning: distressing topics, death, child abuse, child sex abuse, psychological and physical violence, cultic abuse, torture, addiction, humiliation, systemic abuse, religious abuse. 

Maia Szalavitz’s website:  <a href="https://maiasz.com/ ...  Show more

In 2016, ex-footballer Andy Woodward revealed on live TV that he and countless other boys were sexually abused by their former youth coach, Barry Bennell, whilst training in Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra’s acclaimed “football factories” as youngsters in the 1980s and 90s. I ...  Show more

*TRIGGER WARNING: Episode discusses themes of sexual abuse, assault and rape*

This is part I of a 2-episode series on the topic of sexual abuse, assault and rape.

In this episode, we tackle some relevant definitions and statistics, discuss some reasons why su ...