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A Communist Manifesto for Christian Nationalists: Testing the Woke Right

As many of you know and fewer appreciate, I have been aiming to expose a phenomenon called the “Woke Right” for some time now. This whole matter is an issue of considerable and rather fierce debate.

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Panel: Grievance Studies

In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and Mike Nayna gathered in London to reflect on the "Grievance Studies" project.

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This is a scholarly paper titled 'Queering Plato: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as a Queer-Theoretic Emancipatory Text on Sexuality and Gender' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Rebraiding Masculinity”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Rebraiding Masculinity: Redefining the Struggle of Women Under the Domination of the Masculinity Trinity' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Hoax on Hoaxes, First Attempt”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Hegemonic Academic Bullying: The Ethics Of Sokal-Style Hoax Papers On Gender Studies' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Gay BJJ”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Grappling with Hegemonic Masculinity: Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Good For A Girl”

This is a scholarly paper titled '“Pretty Good For A Girl”: Feminist Physicality And Women’s Bodybuilding' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Cisnormativity at Work”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Going In Through The Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria And Transphobia Through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Dildos”

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“Progressive Stack”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Moon Meetings”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Moon Meetings and the Meaning of Sisterhood: A Poetic Portrayal of Lived Feminist Spirituality' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Hooters”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Joke’s on You”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'When The Joke Is On You: A Feminist Perspective On How Positionality Influences Satire' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Fat Bodybuilding”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Who Are They to Judge?: Overcoming Anthropometry and a Framework for Fat Bodybuilding' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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“Feminist Mein Kampf”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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The Reformers: A New Film About the Grievance Studies Affair

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The Reformers: A Film About the Grievance Studies Affair

The Grievance Studies Affair has never been more relevant. Back in 2017 and 2018, when we did it, it was obvious that the part of academia sometimes called the “theoretical humanities” had been given over essentially wholly to what we dubbed Grievance Studies—that is, Woke Identity Marxism.

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“Dog Park”

This is a scholarly paper titled 'Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity in Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.

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James Lindsay Goes to Oxford

Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”

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