Promotional Material for Sex Education Season 2. This post contains spoilers for both seasons of Netflix’s Sex Education. Nearly every episode of Netflix’s series Sex Education begins with a sex scene, but none of them are particularly sexy. The first episode begins with a shot of a shaking lamp as the camera pans over an older couple. As the camera moves up to the second floor, the shaking is revealed to be caused by a young couple. Having trouble with his performance, the b

My body became different. Over the span of a year and a half the body that I knew became smaller, got stronger, ate new things, felt different. Discussions of weight loss are often shrouded in the language of “newness,” as if the person inside the body went to a car dealership and traded their Toyota for a sleek new Lexus, furnished with that new car smell. Commentary surrounding the “new body” is eerily similar to that of trading out an older car for a new one: “congratulati

One could say that the academy hates thinking. Thinking is a messy process of mulling over concepts, entertaining notions, both rejecting and accepting ideas, and still exceeds all these processes. Thinking rarely comes easily to us, but rather comes unexpectedly, and perhaps at inopportune times. Academia prefers when ideas and arguments are presented neatly. Innovative ideas are welcomed into the light of day only after peer review or other side constraints that confirm the

- A theoretical meditation in the form of Surya Namaskar A In a recent candlelight yoga flow class I teach every Thursday night at Lincoln’s Lotus House of Yoga, I found myself grimacing with self-recrimination as I guided my 12 students into eka pada rajakapotasana. Otherwise known as “pigeon,” the pose requires the student to bend one knee up to her wrist with the foot angled back to the hip, while the other leg extends straight out behind the practitioner on the mat. In th