Pop Quiz time! What’s the difference between charitable contributions and taxation? How are flirting and sexual harassment different? What about employment and slavery? Rape and love making? The answer to all of these is the principle of consent. Each person has the right to decide what happens to their body and property. When they agree…
Five years ago, in 2015, the US Supreme Court handed down their ruling in the case Obergefell v. Hodges. The landmark ruling said that states could not discriminate against same sex couples seeking to marry and same sex marriages from other states must be recognised as well. The Obergefell ruling was celebrated by advocates for…
A while back, I saw a meme on Facebook. The idea was that for those who use their phones as an alarm clock to change their alarm to a song that would help start their day off right. Perhaps a song that is empowering, a favourite, or high energy. Pro wrestlers are known for having…
Galveston, Texas. June 19, 1865. At the Ashton Villa, Union Army General Gordon Granger reads General Order Number 3, a proclamation. In this proclamation, he referenced the Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier on January 1, 1863. In it, he declared slaves in Confederate States…
On this day in 1776, less than a month before the celebrated Declaration of Independence, Virginia ratified their Declaration of Rights. The Virginia Declaration of Rights was a key foundational document for several reasons. Thomas Jefferson drew heavily from it drafting the Declaration of Independence. It was also the basis of the Bill of Rights….