Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London have been given the go-ahead by the FDA to conduct human trials on an HIV vaccine. They have been working on this vaccine for the last ten years and it has finally reached the stage where it’s ready for human trials. There are three more stages ...
Over the last week or so several very hopeful articles about cures and vaccines for HIV have come out but nobody is jumping for joy. Is this because scientists are worried it’s just another false alarm? There have been two major breakthroughs. The first one is for a vaccine that uses naturally occurring antibodies found ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
