In this episode of the Two for Tea podcast, I talk to Rio Veradonir about sexual rights & freedoms, about the dangers of tying these to identity politics and victimhood culture and about the partnership between Areo and Queer Majority. In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, our editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to […]

“Satirists aren’t nice. They don’t present a positive vision of society; their criticism isn’t constructive. Generally, it just conveys the message the current state of affairs is bad. But when we are only allowed to say nice things about people, naked emperors walk among us with impunity, with their hairy testicles dangling free,” argues our

“Newspaper editors and journalists seem unconcerned about offending specific groups, so long as it is seen as punching-up,” argue Kai Whiting and Ada Akpala. Ada Akpala and Kai Whiting on labels and their role in language, stereotyping, race, racism, white privilege.

“The complicated and often contradictory nature of the correlations people develop can make communication between parties holding different associations for the same identifier extremely difficult,” writes Rio Veradonir for Areo Magazine in association with Queer Majority. When I sat down to write my first piece for Queer Majority, I knew it would be difficult. I

“Most people see a trait like race as distinct from what they consider more relevant qualifications like scholarly achievements, pedagogical skills and administrative experience. To be selected for one’s race rather than for such qualifications is to not be considered the equal of one’s peers—and people do not accept unequal status lightly. However, nearly all