{"id":2226338,"date":"2024-04-21T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furries-bdsm-and-void-punk-official-queer-magazine-of-ucla-embraces-the-fringe\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:32:18","slug":"furries-bdsm-and-void-punk-official-queer-magazine-of-ucla-embraces-the-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furries-bdsm-and-void-punk-official-queer-magazine-of-ucla-embraces-the-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA&#8217;s Official Magazine Embraces Fringe Communities: Furries, BDSM, and Void Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffurries-bdsm-and-void-punk-official-queer-magazine-of-ucla-embraces-the-fringe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2226338&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The latest issue of \u200cUCLA&#8217;s queer student\u2063 magazine explores acceptance \u2063for furries, kinksters, and other marginalized \u200bcommunities within the\u200d LGBTQ+ movement. The editor-in-chief advocates for embracing diverse identities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blasphemous-lil-nas-x-blasted-for-promoting-new-song-j-christ-with-image-of-rapper-on-a-cross\/\" title=\"\u2018Blasphemous\u2019: Lil Nas X Blasted For Promoting New Song \u2018J Christ\u2019 With Image Of Rapper On A Cross\">challenging\u200b societal norms<\/a>. The magazine sparks discussions on topics like furries, BDSM, and Void Punk, aiming to promote\u200b inclusivity and understanding among students. The content\u2064 reflects\u200d a broader trend of increasing LGBTQ+ identification \u200camong Gen-Z individuals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the latest edition of UCLA\u2019s queer student magazine, featuring so-called \u201cFreaks,\u201d students at the prestigious university cry for the acceptance of furries\u00a0 and other fringe sexual preferences and identities into the larger LGBTQ movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The magazine, which can be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/outwritenewsmag\/docs\/w24-final-pages\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">read in its entirety online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, begins with OutWrite magazine\u2019s editor-in-chief claiming classmates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">high school<\/a> would openly bully a trans student as a \u201cfreak and a monster.\u201d This edition of the queer student magazine is fashioned as a \u201clove letter to the freaks: the queers, cringelords, furries, kinksters, and monsterf***ers alike,\u201d the editor, Rainer Lee, writes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cExplore with us what it means to be human and beyond,\u201d Lee writes. \u201cCome be a freak.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one essay titled, \u201cFor The Love of the Furries,\u201d the author writes that he is \u201cadvocating for furries.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe way anti-furry stigma manifests is strikingly similar to past and present sexually-motivated constructions of queerness as an illness and a cause of moral panic,\u201d the student writes, adding that it\u2019s a \u201cbigoted generalization\u201d to say being a furry is a fetish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OutWrite magazine is copyrighted by the Associated Students of UCLA\u2019s Communications Board, the student government of UCLA, and is another example of its embrace of radical liberal ideology. First-year students at the university were recently encouraged to listen to the \u201cIdigenae\u201d podcast that discusses people identifying as \u201ctwo-spirit\u201d and \u201cwomxn.\u201d The university has also come <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-dei-medical-school-garbage-this-time-its-ucla\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">under fire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  for its medical school infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion into the curriculum, hosting a mandatory \u201cStructural Racism and Health Equity\u201d course where students read about wars of indigenous resistance including a massacre of white people by Native Americans to \u201cimagine what liberation could look like.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another article in the OutWrite magazine argues that BDSM kinkiness \u2014\u00a0the common acronym for\u00a0 bondage, discipline, dominance and submission \u2014 should be included in the larger LGBTQ+ movement. It argues that the pushback regarding exposing children to inappropriate material \u201creinforces the stigma of kinky people as dangerous deviants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat difference does it make to see someone wearing a collar at Pride or see a parade float full of dominatrixes? The student writes. \u201cThe average viewer might take only a slight note of it, but it would make a world of difference to those involved in the kink community and those who want to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The magazine includes a page that features a student who says he started \u201cdressing like a freak to gain agency over the reason why the conservative Christrians I grew up with hated me.\u201d Other students disclose suicidal thoughts that they attribute to the failure of society to accept them, a rejection that they say they are now choosing to embrace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One writer, a self-described immigrant person of color whose actual gender is unclear based on the writing, complains that the United States he or she arrived in reinforces \u201ccapitalistic, heteronormative patriarchal circumstances\u201d and pushed him or her to embrace \u201cVoid Punk,\u201d a \u201csubculture that refutes normative society\u2019s idea of what it means to be human and instead celebrates the idea of not being human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The author states that \u201cVoid Punk\u201d was created for \u201cmarginalized communities\u201d who decide that they \u201cdon\u2019t need to feel human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCreated for marginalized communities who often face dehumanization by an oppressive, normative society, it is commonly expressed through aesthetics of the inhuman,\u201d the author writes. \u201cThe rhetoric surrounding humanity is largely decided by oppressive forces who find it convenient to decide who gets to be human and who does not. Dehumanization is a familiar instrument of colonization and conquest, a forced cognitive dissonance that allows the oppressor to justify violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel human, and I don\u2019t need to feel human,\u201d the author concluded. \u201cInstead, of having the label of humanity shoved onto me, I will choose to be with other people and care for them by not virtue of the ideal of humanity but for the sake of shared experience and care for the living.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/25\/us\/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent polling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as \u201cLGBTQ,\u201d a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of \u201ckink\u201d in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though this embrace of radical gender ideology has become commonplace on college campuses, it has broken through to the highest levels of government. The Biden administration raised eyebrows when it hired a transgender-identifying cross-dressing mana who once taught a <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/slap-happy-thieving-nonbinary-biden-official-leads-spanking-seminar-at-sex-conference\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The man, Sam Brinton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-arrested-as-fugitive-from-justice\">was fired<\/a> after he was exposed for stealing multiple women\u2019s clothing from airports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Virginia <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">school district also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/va-democrats-target-pastor-of-teacher-put-on-leave-for-refusing-to-affirm-kids-trans-identity\/\" title=\"VA Democrats Target Pastor Of Teacher Put On\u00a0Leave For Refusing To Affirm Kids\u2019 \u2018Trans Identity\u2019\">recently put<\/a> a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginias-largest-school-district-put-a-kink-affirming-bondage-specialist-in-charge-of-reviewing-parent-complaints-about-books\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Daily Wire previously reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Virginia school district recently put a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginias-largest-school-district-put-a-kink-affirming-bondage-specialist-in-charge-of-reviewing-parent-complaints-about-books\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Daily Wire previously reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The former Biden Administration official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-arrested-as-fugitive-from-justice\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who was fired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  after he was exposed for stealing multiple women\u2019s clothing spurred a national conversion over kinky people and even went on to teach a spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/slap-happy-thieving-nonbinary-biden-official-leads-spanking-seminar-at-sex-conference\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/25\/us\/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent polling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as \u201cLGBTQ,\u201d a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of \u201ckink\u201d in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest issue of UCLA&#8217;s queer student magazine sheds light on the inclusivity of &#8220;Freaks&#8221;, advocating for the recognition of furries and other unconventional sexual preferences in the LGBTQ community. 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