LETTERS Written by: Lily Dauphinee Some ghosts haunt us, some serve as constant reminders of what we could have done or been. Some take their…
Female Voting Rights and the Age of Consent
HISTORY Written by: m.wilson A network of Christian feminist reform groups, advocated for an increase in the age of consent from 12 to 16 (and…
Female Writers and the Pseudonym
MARKETS Written by: Berti Walker Literary writing is no longer the middle-class occupation it once was during the 20th century. An Authors Guild survey revealed…
Why a relationship is one plus one rather than two
RELATIONSHIPS Written by: Jeimmer E. Padilla Gamarra In his poem, Bolero Julio Cortazar said, So we will never be the perfect match the postcard if…
Dating With a Mental Illness: Interview
RELATIONSHIPS Written by: Meagan Hansen Mental illness is more likely to be suffered by females than males. And despite the fact that one billion worldwide…
Barrenness Is Acceptable
LETTERS Written by Leah Summers-Milne Last year I was in my doctor’s office – my legs in metal stirrups, exposing myself to the female nurse…
“Ecosystem Services” in The Handmaid’s Tale
SEXES Written by: m.wilson It could be argued that in Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale, women become the fifth category of “ecosystem services.” The…
Poems by Maddie Ketchem
Maddie Ketchem is a published poet and author whose work is featured in Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, and the Genesis, Spring 2017 edition. She attended Indiana University and currently lives in Indianapolis with her fiancé and two cats.
MAN-selection
SEXES Written by: Aubrey Conrad The first article in the MAN-selection series addresses the harassment single women experience in public. The term public harassment might…
Overpopulation 1: How Many People Can the Earth Support?
Review of the Quartz Aug 18′ article “We are exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. Denying it is suicidal,” by Richard Heinberg — (author and senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute).
Environmental: Read @ Medium
Written by: m.wilson
Societies Pollute their Environment to the Point of Collapse
According to Heinberg, the earth has a biological “carrying capacity,” which is defined as “the number of organisms an environment can support without becoming degraded.” The existence of this capacity he wrote, holds the consensus among the majority of ecologists. However, despite a likely causal relationship, overpopulation is not discussed in the media as much as climate change for example, as corporations utilize cheap energy like nuclear, gas, oil, and wood to churn out massive amounts of pesticides, antibiotics, and fertilizers for the 7+ billion people occupying the planet.