Episode 81: Judith Butler's Gender Bubbles

Plus: People got super mad at a New York Times column about campus free speech This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe 

The hosts discuss all the brains that have been melted by Russia’s invastion of Ukraine, the role of race in determining how local populations respond to refugees, and the all-too-common collision of trans rights and lithium mining. If you’d like to discuss this issue with other ...  Show more

It’s a time of contrast and contradiction for gender queerness in America: At the same time that about 5 percent of Americans under 30 identify as transgender or nonbinary, over 20 states have passed some sort of restriction on gender-affirming care for children. In 2023 alone ...

A recent BBC article suggests that lesbian women are being pressured into having sex with trans women. Some would argue this is predatory behavior, but in today’s society, not wanting to have sex with a trans woman makes you a transphobic bigot. Are we really protecting women by ...  Show more

In 2012, David Kroupa was working as a mechanic and enjoying life as a bachelor when his life was suddenly turned upside down after a few visits to a dating website.David had no idea he’d become the deadly obsession of a woman with predatory focus unwilling to let anything stand ...  Show more

Librarians once stood for intellectual freedom and access to information, but today many prefer to suppress speech and intellectual diversity for the sake of a misguided concept of "social justice". One Davis, California library recently violated the First Amendment when they eje ...  Show more