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Defying Big Brother: The Right to Be Unseen
Just as the new millennium set in, the dot-com bubble imploded. Silicon Valley’s t-shirt-wearing CEOs, high on the bravado of venture backing, fell sharply; the wind knocking the thin membrane of their vehemently advertisement-free companies. As the icy air of the ‘real’ world set in, a state of exception began and never lifted. In their…
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A Brief on Islamic Bioethics and Intersex Persons
There was a paper published in August 2020 by Dr. Nasir Malim and Dr. Aasim Padela, the Director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine at University of Chicago, titled Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity for Intersex Patients. The paper introduces how intersex individuals and their medical needs can be approached in contemporary medicine…