Melissa Wilcox, Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

Omnipresent Technologies—Omnipresent Democracies? Morozov’s critique of serious online activism

Queer activism in Taiwan: an emergent rainbow coalition from the assemblage perspective

A social movement for sexual and gender minorities (the Movement) emerged in Taiwan around 1990s since the abolition of Martial Law in 1987. This paper, drawing from Deleuze’s assemblage theory, looks at how activists negotiate and compete over constructing the discourses of sexual rights and citizenship in a context of democratic transition. Along with the ‘Renaissance’ of conservatism recentl...

Nuns, Warts, Viruses, and Cancer

It has been known for more than 150 years that the risk of carcinoma of the uterine cervix correlates with the number of sexual partners. Laboratory and epidemiological evidence demonstrated that infection with certain human papillomavirus (HPV) types initiates the vast majority of, if not all, cervical cancer, as well as a substantial fraction of other cancers, including other anogenital cance...

Melissa Bateson

1. Simberloff, D. (2003). Confronting introduced species: a form of xenophobia? Biol. Invasions 5, 179–192. 2. Davis, M.A., Chew, M.K., Hobbs, R.J., Lugo, A.E., Ewel, JJ., Vermeij, G.J., Brown, J.H., Rosenzweig, M.L., Gardener, M.R., Carroll, S.P., et al. (2011). Don’t judge species on their origins. Nature 474, 153–154. 3. Bailey, J. (2013). The rise and fall of Japanese knotweed. In Invasive ...

Every Sparrow That Falls: Understanding Animal Rights Activism as Functional Religion

This ar ticle reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the Žnding that activism functioned in activists’ and elites’ lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identiŽed both latent and manifest quasi-religious components i...