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News: Discrimination against a Vancouver Pagan involved in BDSM

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Vancouver Pagan Peter Hayes claims he was discriminated against when an officer refused to grant him the permit he needed to get a chauffeur’s job.
Hayes maintained, Barker took him to a small room, asked why he was wearing black clothes [...]

Original sketches by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

In December I posted about the Austin Osman Spare artwork sold by Fulgur Limited. New sketches have been released from the collection of Ernest Chapman, collector and friend of Spare.
The sketches date from between 1953-1955, and include “a series of pencil drawings in the sabbatic theme that include images of metamorphosis and pan-sexual tension now [...]

Love in Ancient Egypt

Friday, February 15th, 2008

My husband and I have been members of the Friends of Ancient Egypt special interest group at the Royal Ontario Museum since its inception a year or so ago and one of the benefits of FAE members are lectures on the subject.
Past lectures have been on recent acquisitions of Egyptian pieces, funerary customs, The Book [...]

Masculinism and gender equality

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

We all know women have made great strides toward gender equality in the past hundred years, yet it seems men have barely inched along.
Men continue to be abused in pop culture, and indeed, the male image may be subject to further degradation and oppression now than at any point in the last hundred years. [...]