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Joan Rivers Was No Gay Icon: An Open Letter to the Gay Community
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Was Joan Rivers a true gay icon? Nicholas Boeving comments on the legend’s style of comedy, and if Rivers’ humor is truly something the gay community should aspire to.
Culture
A New Peer Youth Emerges in Transforming the World
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After twenty-year-old Daniel Pierce was disowned by his family when he came out as gay, a peer community of youth arose on social media to stand by his side. Warren Blumenfeld reflects on the youth’s approach and the modern generation’s determination in eradicating oppression.
Christianity
Letter to Pope Francis on Obliterating the Gender Scripts
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Warren Blumenfeld asks Pope Francis to uses his influence and power to turn away from adhering to and promoting society’s gender roles.
Culture
Non-Negotiable Rights
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When discussing equal rights between the sexes, biology and possible gendered differences should be left out of the conversation. Equality is not based on privilege or earned, equality is everyone’s basic birthright.
Christianity
Baptist Pastor Inflicts Grief upon the Grieving
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Florida pastor, T.W. Jenkins, canceled Julion Evans’s funeral when he found out Evans was married to a man. Warren Blumenfeld comments on how other faith communities are treating LGBT people and hopes Jenkins apologizes.
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We, Thee & Me
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“Whether out of defensiveness, envy, or ignorance, some women support and even add to the inequities that continue to plague their gender, even in relatively free societies. So what can be done about it?”
Education
My Research Is My Therapy
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Questions about internalized oppression have been the backbone of Warren Blumenfeld research, and even before he came to consciousness of this fact, his research was his therapy, for it had challenged and continually challenges him to change and to grow.
Culture
“Can We Forgive You?”: A Manifesto
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Years of stifled anger and silenced pain are finally rising to the surface as Warren Blumenfeld reflects on the responsibilities and obligations dominant groups have to dismantle the forms of oppression and unearned privileges not accorded to those outside, who are often viewed as the “other.”
Gender and Sexuality
Religion: The Gatekeeper and Denier of Human Rights?
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New In the wake of the foul Supreme Court decision Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, we may need to start worrying about how thoroughly religion dictates human rights and which religion(s) shares disproportionate power.
Culture
On Safety and Umbrage
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Does a civil society require conferring on its members the right to protect themselves from evocations of pain? Or would this lead to a society starved of humor, challenge, and the learning that our pain enables? A reaction to, and personal reflection on the New Yorker’s, Jack Halberstam’s latest piece about “trigger warnings.”