This paper takes on an enormous task. It attempts to explain the history and origins of the attacks against persons with albinism (PWA). i In light of the monstrosity of this subject matter, this paper can only scratch the surface of the issue. That said, it is our hope that the information which we have gathered, not only from media sources but from academics and our personal experiences with ...

The image of trans monstrosity has been firmly anchored in mainstream North American popular culture, most notably through films such as Psycho, Dressed to Kill, and Silence the Lambs. This cultural vilification had catastrophic effects on communities, stoking violence especially against trans-feminine people, promoting discrimination, severely affecting people’s self-images. By analysing two c...

David Kaplan's semantic theory for indexicals yields a distinct logic indexical languages that generates contingent priori truths. These special truths of the include examples like "I am here now", an utterance which expresses state affairs and yet which, according to Kaplan, cannot fail be true when it is uttered. This claim threatened by problem displaced communications: answerphone messages,...