identity drifts!
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Marie-Jo Bonnet

As a feminist, I was “cancelled”

Marie-Jo Bonnet denounces the censorship she faces within feminist and LGBT activist circles for expressing critical positions on marriage, medically assisted procreation for lesbians, and gender transition, which she considers to be normative responses to social and identity-based malaise. The new progressive norms are becoming instruments of exclusion, censorship, and the falsification of history, under the guise of defending minorities.

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Marie-Jo Bonnet 14 May 2025
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Mikhail Kostylev

The Sum of All Wokeisms: Cyborg Dogs and Queer Antispeciesism

It will explore cyborg dogs becoming queer and canine intimacies at the heart of the anti-colonial struggle. Mikhail Kostylev analyzes a highly acclaimed American article in which ideology leads to the manipulation of language and the denial of reality.

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Mikhail Kostylev March 28, 2025
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The meaning of our fight

A profound reversal of values ​​and benchmarks is currently affecting the intellectual, educational, and social spheres. Identity ideologies are distorting historical struggles for equality, emptying them of their meaning. It is urgent to reestablish critical thinking, armed with knowledge and rigor, to stand up against this charade that is blurring the transmission of reality.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador March 24, 2025
In the spotlight
Emmanuelle Henin

Decolonial Joy

The exhibition "Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art" at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Stephanie Sparling Williams, offers a radical rereading of American art history by inverting power relations: works by non-white and women artists are foregrounded, while those by white artists are physically demeaned to force a reckoning with historical inequalities. This approach, hailed by some as a necessary deconstruction of the dominant narrative, is criticized by others as a form of radical activism that transforms the museum experience into an ideological display.

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Emmanuelle Henin March 23, 2025
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Emmanuelle Henin

“The Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin

In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed through intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.

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Emmanuelle Henin March 19, 2025
feature articles
Mireille Quivy

Book review of “The Damned of the Sea: Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” by Camille Schmoll

In "The Damned of the Sea," Camille Schmoll analyzes the journey of migrant women in the Mediterranean, highlighting the violence they experience, the obstacles of migration policies, and their quest for autonomy through in-depth field research. She deconstructs preconceived ideas about the feminization of migration and highlights the role of digital technology as a space for resistance and identity reconstruction.

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Mireille Quivy March 17, 2025
The editorials
Jacques-Robert

Caught between wokeism and Trumpism

Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.

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Jacques-Robert February 6st, 2025
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Florent Poupart

The influence of identity ideologies on “psy” practices

Contemporary identity ideologies profoundly influence psychological practices by imposing a hypermoralization of social life, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a space of ideological validation rather than neutral analysis. Psychologist Florent Poupart warns us against this development, which is accompanied by a growing distrust of psychic life in its unconscious dimension, in favor of an ideal of transparency and moral purity.

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Florent Poupart February 5st, 2025
identity drifts
Alice Cabanat

“The Empire of Validity”: Introduction to the Notion of Validism

The term "validisme" is the French translation of "ableism", a concept that emerged in the 1960s and 70s in the context of disability studies and activist movements for the rights of people with disabilities, contesting a biomedical vision of disability and promoting a social approach. In France, this concept first emerged in activist circles and is now found in academic publications that denounce an "empire of validity" imposing oppressive standards on people with disabilities and calling for a "devalidation" of the dominant model. An extension of wokism (the alliance of communitarianism with an obsession with domination), this notion joins other intersectional analyses on power relations and sparks debates within the academic world about the influence of activism on research.

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Alice Cabanat February 3st, 2025
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Mikhail Kostylev

Viking woman or non-binary? When woke “science” tears itself apart

All the "proof" of the deceased's non-binarity rests on these two absurd assertions. Since they are contradicted as soon as they are stated, the authors are safe from any criticism. The game will consist of forgetting these reservations as soon as we have finished writing them, and reasoning thereafter as if they were certain.

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Mikhail Kostylev 18 December 2024

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