Richard Adams’s classic tale of escape, adventure and survival—winner of the 1972 Carnegie Medal in Literature and the 1973 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize—follows a group of rabbits as they flee a warren doomed by the encroachment of man. They head off in search of greener pastures and eventually settle on the hillside of Watership Down. Led by reluctant rabbit-in-chief Hazel, the budding colony must contend with various elil, the word for the thousand natural enemies of rabbits in Adams’s inventive Lapine language, as they seek a home where they can finally live in peace. Read More...
Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as “a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas”—whicheducators worry will limit how they can talk about the history of systemic racism and current events—the Republican leader put the issue back on the agenda for a special session of the state legislature that began on July 8, as part of a wave of state actions in Republican-led states designed to regulate how the legacy of racism and slavery in the U. Read More...
Also a lot of women do not feel comfortable initiating sex, because of social conditioning that has led them to believe that being the sexual aggressor renders them a ‘slut’ or a ‘whore,’ and for people with such mindset, to initiate sex is to be subjected to shame and ridicule. These reasons have somewhat made it ‘natural’ that men should be the ones to always initiate sex and get every happy hour started. Read More...
