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Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help.
This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.
The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.
Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.
Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.
It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.
In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.