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The Human Figure in Art: Watch Now!

Things: Issue Two

Humanum is delighted to offer a video recording of our first in-person event, a presentation by Dr. Sarah Bond on "The Human Figure in Art," to all of our readers. Click here to enjoy it in its entirety.

The presentation took place on April 14, 2023 at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C.

We thank all who attended and helped make it a success!



Posted on April 28, 2023

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Last December, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti. The case involves the constitutionality of a Tennessee law, SB1, that prohibits any medical procedure for the purpose of “Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex,” and “Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” Including Tennessee, 27 states have enacted such protections for children.

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In her 2019 book, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything, researcher Sarah Hill describes the wide-ranging effects of birth control pills on a woman’s brain and hormonal health. Dr. Hill earned her PhD in evolutionary psychology from UT Austin and, despite focusing her research on the effect of women’s hormones on behavior, she recounts that she never realized the impact of the birth control pill on the brain and behavior until more than a year after she stopped taking the pill herself.

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The Cartesian Nightmare of Transgenderism

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We have, for a very long time, lost the living reality of the soul and what it means to be the form of the body. The human soul is already outside itself; it lives a radically exteriorized existence. Nowhere is this more evident than in the phenomenon of “transgenderism.” Transgender advocates insist that affirming one’s preferred “gender identity” irrespective of or contrary to one’s actual sex is compassionate. In fact, it is cruel and rests upon a profound anthropological confusion. To separate the psyche or soul from the body is to sunder the most basic elements of the human person.

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