Quillette Cetera

By Zoe SankeyNews News Commentary

Quillette Cetera episodes

June 09, 2023 Is Quillette far-right? And why we can't advertise on Facebook.
A researcher from the University of Cincinnati who is conducting seminars on "far-right radicalization" in the United States characterises Quillette, an Australian-based liberal-centrist organization, as being more "radicalizing" than Fox News and comparable to InfoWars. This "researcher" has been awarded over $300,000 from the US Department of Homeland Security. Maybe us being characterised as a "terrorist organization" by the DHS may explain our consistent inability to run ads on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit?

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34 min
June 01, 2023 Debating Australia's Vaping Ban
Quillette's community manager, Zoe Booth, asks her friend and PR whizz, Emilie Dye, on the podcast to debate the Australian government's crackdown on vapes: "The Government will work with states and territories to close down the sale of vapes in retail settings, ending vape sales in convenience stores and other retail settings, while also making it easier to get a prescription for legitimate therapeutic use."
Read the Health Minister's media release here: https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/taking-action-on-smoking-and-vaping

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34 min
May 31, 2023 Trans activists have no right to pervert the English language
'"Woman. Noun. Adult human female,” read the sticker applied to Queensland MP Shannon Fentiman’s office window. Walking past the window at the Waterford Shopping Centre in Logan, one might have assumed the sticker belonged to Fentiman. She was, until Thursday, Queensland’s Minister for Women.

But one would’ve been mistaken. “I know the sticker doesn’t look like it says much, and most people will be lucky enough to be unaffected by what it says,” Fentiman wrote on her Instagram page. “But for some people in our community, these stickers represent much more – they represent a movement which discriminates against them and denies their existence.”'

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Welcome to Episode 2! Today with better placement of our microphones and less mmms. Today we discuss Claire's latest column in The Australian- Trans activists have no right to pervert the English language, by Claire Lehmann: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/trans-activists-have-no-right-to-pervert-the-english-language-writes-claire-lehmann/news-story/a3809b3716c4c068c629e5df6b5224a9

Sorry all- the audio wasn't great in this episode. I'm still working out how to do this. Expect better quality audio, and even, wait for it, intro music, in the coming weeks.

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40 min
May 23, 2023 Victimhood ideology and feminism
In the first of a series of conversations, Claire Lehmann (Quillette founder) and Zoe Booth (Quillette Community Manager) discuss Claire's latest essay in The Australian about teen mental health and talk more broadly about victimhood ideology, feminism and audience capture.
Claire's article The Australian can be read here: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/progressive-ideologies-send-the-wrong-message-to-our-kids/news-story/f383e56897c4b455d4495328f56af7b6

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40 min

About Quillette Cetera

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Quillette's Zoe Sankey sits down each fortnight with scientists, writers, activists, and independent thinkers to interrogate the ideas shaping — and dividing — the Western world. From evolutionary psychology and gender to cancel culture, free speech, Islamism, and the collapse of progressive orthodoxies, no topic is too contentious and no question is off limits.