Building on the work of her previous books Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Prof. Judith Butler addressed Trinity College Dublin last week on the subject of Vulnerability and Resistance. Her lecture sought to further debates from the critically acclaimed Frames of War where Butler explicitly dealt with the concept of vulnerability in her chapter "Survivability, Vulnerability and Affect."

This Valentine’s Day we have endured the usual corporate commodification of romantic love, including love that falls outside of the heteronormative ideal. Such love has been triumphantly photographed in Alabama courthouses, where some judges recently began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last week according to a federal ruling against the state’s ban.

Will the end of football season also bring an end to the No More campaign? Or will its founders now feature other troubled sporting organizations on their ineffective and cringe-worthy commercials?