Social Justice

The University of Florida hosted its annual “Sex in the Swamp” event on Thursday. The event even encouraged students to participate in a condom art show, called the “condom art showcase” for a chance to win a pair of Apple AirPods.

NEW YORK (AP) — There was a chorus outside the Broadway Theatre on Thursday at the opening night of a new revival of “West Side Story” but what was being sung was a protest chant.

Syracuse University suspended more than 30 students on Tuesday after student protesters staged a sit-in at a university building and refused to leave. The students had been protesting the administration allegedly being too slow to respond to “racist acts.”

Actor and progressive activist Joaquin Phoenix was filmed rescuing a cow and her calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse less than 48 hours after picking up his first Oscar for his role in the psychological thriller Joker. 

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has doubled down on its publication of a poem describing the “struggles of getting a haircut as a non-binary person”, warning that critics have been “reported”.

An imam in Gothenburg’s largest mosque has been roundly criticised after comparing female genital mutilation (FGM) practices to those who undergo gender reassignment surgeries.

An event with faith leaders from around the country on Tuesday in Washington, DC, focused on the importance of participation in the 2020 Census devolved into politically charged dialogue when the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network said black and brown “folk” don’t trust the Trump administration to fairly conduct the census.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz promised students last week that the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue will not return to campus.

The government’s attitude to traditional wives is “almost communist”, it is claimed after Patel said ‘inactive’ people should be put to work.

A Google AI tool used to recognize objects in images will reportedly no longer attach gender labels such as “woman” or “man” to people in pictures in order to “avoid bias.”

Facing a firing squad of woke journalists, actor Jeremy Irons has publicly atoned for his past comments on abortion, same-sex marriage, and sexual harassment ahead of this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where the actor is serving as jury president.

The Vegan Society has said that vegans should be given their own shelf in refrigerators at work and employers should protect them from offensive jokes about their dietary choices.

Universal will employ digital technology to “spellcheck” scripts for onscreen Latinx representation as part of the studio’s ongoing effort to boost “inclusive storytelling for all underrepresented groups.”

A federal appeals court sided with a school district’s “student safety plan” that allows students to use bathrooms corresponding to gender identity.

Students at the Ohio State University raised money to host an event with a dominatrix that also functions as an “orgasm coach.” The event took place during a”Sex Week” program that takes place on campus each year.

A video published by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) on Tuesday shows several University of Virginia (UVA) students sharing the belief that “white people need to be aware of the fact” that certain “spaces” on campus are simply not for them, and that “they need to be cognizant of the space that they’re taking up.” The students’ views fall in line with the viral video of a black student announcing that there were “just too many white people” in the school’s Multicultural Student Center.

Rapper Boosie BadAzz took to social media to chastise former NBA star Dwyane Wade over his recent announcement that his 12-year-old son, Zaya, is transgender. “Don’t cut his f**king dick off, bro,” said the rapper to Wade in a video posted to his Instagram account on Tuesday.

Actress Rosario Dawson has revealed that she identifies as LGBTQ in a new interview with Bustle in which the star also discussed her ongoing romantic involvement with former presidential candidate Cory Booker.

Counselors at Brigham Young University created a “safe space” for students to discuss a series of anonymous messages published to the internet during a recent campus panel event on race.

Planned Parenthood is pressing state taxpayers into making up federal family planning funds it voluntarily gave up to protect abortion.

If Marvel wants to make a $250 million superhero blockbuster for gay people, fine. I’m just not going to go and see it.

A candidate in the battle to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party, Lisa Nandy, has said biological men should be allowed into all-female prisons, regardless of the crimes they have committed.

The Church of England’s most prominent cleric, Justin Welby, said he is “ashamed of our history” and of his supposed advantages as a straight white male.

Starbucks promoting a “transgender youth” charity through the sale of Mermaids cookies is “incredibly sinister” says author Douglas Murray.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has declared that biological males and females who are identify as the opposite sex are indeed what they claim to be, that people who say they are “non-binary” really are neither male nor female, and, moreover, that “All gender identites are valid”.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow says that her candle called “This Candle Smells Like My Vagina” was a “feminist statement” meant to expose the “shame” that surrounds “a woman’s private parts.”

The library system at Georgetown University announced this week that it is banning several books that students have deemed “offensive.”