When It Comes to Free Speech, Elon Musk Is a Cissy

Elon Musk rode into Twitter headquarters like a conquering free speech warrior. But all he did was choose different targets for censorship.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMay 3, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul, C - Swallowed Machine

LGBT Culture Wars: America’s Most Dangerous Export

American culture wars get halfway around the world before civil dialogue can get its pants on.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosApril 19, 2024Currents, Frances An, C - DnD Woke, C - Untapped

The Right-Wing Groomers Who Call Everyone Groomers

When it comes to the right-wing “groomer” police, methinks they doth protest too much.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosApril 1, 2024Currents, Joshua Eakle, C - Salty Boys, Featured OCT, C - Groomer Litmus

Oh, Canada… A Liberal Immigrant’s Lament

The Canada my parents moved us to 50 years ago was a bastion of liberal freedom. Now it’s beginning to remind me of the country we fled.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMarch 20, 2024Currents, Obaid Omer, C - Alberta

Off the Reservation: The Navajo Nation’s LGBT Refugees

The Navajo Nation were once driven off their lands. Now, LGBT Navajos are being driven off by their own homophobes.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMarch 15, 2024Currents, Timothy Wood

By Any Means Necessary: Iran, Hamas, and the Left

History shows that when the revolutionary left and Islamist right start sounding alike, it’s time to start worrying.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJanuary 17, 2024Currents, C - Reservation, Armin Navabi, C - Communist Homophobia, Featured TEMP, C - Alberta, C - LGBT Syrians, C - Secret Double Lives

Radical Feminism’s Strange Love Affair With Hamas

The patriarchy is real in Gaza, but Western feminist academics and activists have better things to care about.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosDecember 29, 2023Currents, Chris Ferguson, C - Any Means, C - False Allegations, Featured TEMP, C - Looming MAGA

The Re-Demonization of the Gay Male

The vitriol against cis white gay men in activist circles seems new, but it’s been decades in the making.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosDecember 26, 2023Currents, Ben Appel, C - Bogeyman

The Political Right’s OG Postmodernists

There’s a reason why right-wing culture warriors sound a lot like the postmodernists they rail against.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosNovember 27, 2023Currents, Matt McManus, C - RW Groomers, C - Cissy, C - LGBT Rights Radical, C - Salty Boys, C - Liberal Socialism

British Imperialism Didn’t Cause Palestinian Homophobia

Blaming the lack of LGBT rights in Gaza on a century-old British penal code is the saddest kind of Hamas apologia.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosOctober 31, 2023Currents, Alexander Von Sternberg, C - Irony, C - Radfem Hamas, C - Any Means, C - Ugandan

“Queers for Palestine” and the Death of Irony

Imposing Western identity politics onto the Middle East is a formula for moral insanity.

CUR - Iran's Theocrats, CUR - Pride Flags, CUR - Unveiled, CUR - WLW Islam, H - PoliticsDiana RamosOctober 17, 2023Currents, Armin Navabi, C - Imperialism, C - Theocrats, C - WLW Islam, C - Radfem Hamas, C - Any Means, C - Looming MAGA, C - Alberta, C - Secret Double Lives

The Brazilian LGBT Movement Loved Me — Until I Defended Free Speech

How Brazil’s LGBT activist class bullied and lied their way into criminalizing hate speech.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosOctober 6, 2023Currents, Eli Vieira, C - Battlefield, C - Canada

The Deceptive Illusion of “Community”: Unmasking the Diversity Within

Community is vital, but the way we speak about it often erases those it's meant to represent.

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosOctober 3, 2023Currents, Richard Pallardy, C - Queer Conservative

The Perilous Pendulum Swing Threatening LGBT Rights

In the culture wars, it’s innocent civilians who pay the price.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosOctober 2, 2023Currents, C - Groomer, C - Emotion, C - Wokeness, C - Groomer Panic, C - Florida, C - Backlash, Helen Pluckrose, C - Demon Gay, C - LGBT CW, Featured, Featured OCT, C - What Rights, C - Groomer Litmus

Brazil is Wrong To Imprison Homophobes

Asking people to choose between free speech and LGBT rights is a disaster in the making.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosSeptember 11, 2023Currents, Jamie Paul, C - Elon, C - Algorithm, C - Anne Frank, C - Brazil LGBT

The Libertarian Case For LGBT Rights

If you aren’t down with LGBT rights, don't call yourself libertarian.

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosAugust 17, 2023Currents, Joshua Eakle, C - RW Groomers, C - Queer Conservative

Crossing the Line: Criticizing Trans Activism vs Bashing Trans People

Our compass for navigating trans issues should be truth and compassion, not partisanship and hate.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosAugust 3, 2023Currents, Christina Buttons, C - TDOR, C - Emotion, C - Pseudoscience, C - Bill Maher, C - Dress Conference, C - Groomer Litmus

The Backlash Against Sexual Freedom and How To Fix It

Polling shows “tradcons” and their ideas are having a moment. How long it lasts is up to us.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJuly 21, 2023Currents, Alexander Von Sternberg, C - Groomer, C - Chads, C - Groomer Panic, C - Florida, C - Pendulum, C - RW Groomers, C - LGBT CW, C - Fem Religion, C - Anti-Surrogacy, C - Pick Me, C - Looming MAGA, C - Groomer Litmus

The Culture Wars Come For Sex Research

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey has been dead for generations, but he still lives rent-free in Republicans’ minds.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJune 21, 2023Currents, Jamie Paul, C - Li, C - Monkey, C - Chameleons, C - Bi Fruitful, C - LGBT CW, C - 13 Ways

Confessions of a Sexual Politics Infiltrator

“How I got into bed with the far-left and then got back out again.”

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMay 30, 2023Currents, Ewan Morrison, C - Rainbow, C - Chads, C - Wokeness, C - Libertarian Case, C - Illusion, C - Communist Homophobia, C - Swallowed Machine

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