Millennials are helping to destigmatize two taboo topics in hopes of eliciting change: money and mental health. It's a generation that's ...
Bollywood is increasing taking up issues related to the LGBTQ community and bringing them to the silver screens. Although queer Bollywood ...
Thailand rang in 2020 with an effort to tackle the plastic crisis filling the country's waste sites and choking its ...
When Chick-fil-A announced in late November that it would stop donating to faith-based organizations, I was confused. After all, just six ...
But does the West know it? Look at Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s young democrats have looked for support from the ...
In South Korea's glitzy, highly manufactured music industry, these kinds of scenes are not uncommon. Homophobia is still rife in South ...
Now cancer-free, the 23-year-old wants to highlight the lack of awareness and dangerous taboos about cancer that still exist in ...
In this episode of Modern Masculinity, Guardian journalist Iman Amrani speaks to men about male circumcision. A third of men ...
Last month, Parbati Buda Rawat, a 21-year-old woman, was found dead in a remote district of far-west Nepal after being ...
Menses is generally perceived "unclean" and menstrual taboos are well described across many cultures. Although Western cultures have evolved from the ...
Breaking The Silence uses machine learning methods to understand what are the contemporary taboo topics. It aims to highlight and bring to focus what topics are currently discussed as taboos. The generated summarizations underline the different topics discussed at different times and additionally the arguments for the creation, maintenance, or destruction of a taboo. Learn more.
