the radical center

By Leslie Elliott Boyce

This project began as a way to call out ideological bias in counselor education specifically (and in education more generally) and has expanded to an examination of many aspects of our contemporary cu... more

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June 04, 2024 Stella O'Malley on the Link Between Euthanasia, Transition, and Psychiatric Medication: SG #71
Stella O’Malley is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, public
speaker, and parent.
Specialising in working with parents and young people, Stella has
written several books: Cotton Wool Kids (2015), Bully-Proof Kids (2017),
Fragile (2019), What Your Teen Is Trying To Tell You (2023) as well as
co-authoring When Kids Say They're Trans (2023) along with fellow
therapists, Sasha Ayad and Lisa Marchiano.
As a child Stella experienced gender-related distress for many years and
explored these experiences in the 2018 Channel 4 documentary Trans
Kids: It’s time to talk. Stella is the founder and Executive Director
of Genspect, an international organisation that advocates for a healthy
approach to sex and gender. She is also the founder-director of the
Gender Dysphoria Support Network, a support network that offers online
support meetings to families of individuals affected by gender
dysphoria. She is a clinical advisor for the Clinical Advisory Network
on Sex and Gender, and a founding member of Thoughtful Therapists.
Stella on Substack: https://substack.com/@stellaomalley
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

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1h 1min
May 30, 2024 Meghan Murphy on Controversies: Feminism, Gender, & Prostitution
Meghan Murphy is a writer and podcaster from Vancouver, now based in
Mexico. She hosts The Same Drugs on Spotify and co-hosts Where Are All
the Women? live on YouTube and X every Wednesday at 6PM PT.
Links:
https://www.meghanmurphy.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZr_veK5sZ6h_exw2J78pi2zi-Oyln-W1
https://open.spotify.com/show/0dxBtcL8pcM7Pu83JpS0Cr
Event Thursday May 30:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vancouverislandspeaks/1203802#
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 4min
May 28, 2024 Polarization, Race, Feminism & Women in Pop Culture: Solid Ground # 70 with Christine Sefein Wolk
Christine Sefein Wolk of Critical Therapy Antidote
criticaltherapyantidote.org/ joins us for a discussion about
polarization, race, feminism, and women in pop culture (Sex & the
City/Barbie)
Find more from Christine at https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast which
she hosts along with Jaco Van Zyl
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid
Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com
Twitter
@jleslieelliott
@dissidentdelite
@deborahknox
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 1min
May 28, 2024 There are No Winners: Race Quotas in Medicine with Dr. Celia Nelson and Dr. Rick Bosshardt
"We are going to see a radical decline in the quality of surgery in this
country" -Dr. Celia K. Nelson
Celia K. Nelson, M.D., F.A.C.S is a General Surgeon who has been A
fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1995.
An excerpt from Dr. Nelson's letter to the American College of Surgeons:
"Racism, prejudice, and misogyny are all real, but in America, they are
not enough to stop you unless you let them. I am proof that success and
achievement of your dreams do not require that you be a particular
gender or have a certain skin color. I believe that positive and
constructive approaches to diversity will get us a lot further than
being perpetually suspicious, offended and victimized.
College leadership invited Ibram Kendi as the keynote speaker at this
month’s leadership retreat, and yet they continue to deny that they are
embracing ideology as they address diversity, equity, and inclusion. I
will no longer sit by idly as the College promotes and implements this
divisive, corrosive, illogical, illiberal ideology. My life and my
success are evidence that this ideology is plainly wrong."
Links:
https://donoharmmedicine.org
Rick Bosshardt, M.D., F.A.C.S has been a plastic surgeon in Tavares, FL
for 35 years. A graduate of the University of Miami Leonard Miller
School of Medicine, he trained as a general surgeon in the US Navy in
Oakland, CA and was board-certified by the American Board of Surgery. He
completed his residency in plastic surgery at the University of
Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital program under world-reknown plastic
surgeon, D. Ralph Millard and began his own practice in 1989. He is
board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, a Fellow of
the American College of Surgeons for over thirty years, a Senior Fellow
at Do No Harm (www.donoharmmedicine.org), and a Founding Fellow of FAIR
in Medicine (www.fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine). For 25 years he
wrote a weekly medical column for the Orlando Sentinel. In 2021, he
began to push back against the installation of antiracism and DEI in the
American College of Surgeons and, in April 2022, was banned for life by
the leadership from engagement with his fellow surgeons on the ACS
website. He continues his battle with the ACS to this day.
Links from Dr. Bosshardt:
His book: The Making of a Plastic Surgeon: Two Years in the Crucible
Learning the Art and Science https://a.co/d/8cnLgM5
https://substack.com/@richardtbosshardtmd
https://www.wsj.com/articles/critical-race-theory-is-bad-medicine-college-surgeons-discuss-kendi-forum-crt-health-care-11663186602
https://www.city-journal.org/article/isolated
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/the-american-college-of-surgeons-doubles-down-on-anti-racism/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/its-dei-or-bust-for-the-american-college-of-surgeons/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2815848/its-not-just-harvard-woke-healthcare-leaders-are-unfit-to-lead-too/
My petition:
https://www.change.org/ACS-petition-reinstate-Bosshardt
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 1min
May 23, 2024 Benny Wills on Conspiracies, Communication, Self-Reliance, and Masculinity
Benny has traveled the world as a poet and emcee. He's the co-creator of
the conscious comedy YouTube channel JoyCamp. He’s originally from Los
Angeles, but he escaped California in 2018. He now lives in North Idaho
with his wife and 3 sons. He has an online communication course called
Free Your Speech: The Art of Communication. In which he’s enrolled over
400 people. He also runs a men's coaching program called the Self
Reliant Way. Where he instructs contrarians and non-conformists on how
to leave the herd and live life on their own terms.
Benny is on a mission to help people go from:
- Lack of purpose → Headed toward their true calling
- Overwhelmed by the world's problems → Empowered and excited to
contribute
- Struggling with addictions → Mastering self-control
- An unfulfilling job → Satisfying work
- Loneliness and disconnection → Meaningful relationships
- Stuck and unhappy → Optimistic and joyful
Links:
website: http://bennywills.com
X - x.com/benjaminwills
YT - youtube.com/bennywills
IG - instagram.com/benny.wills
Benny's community waitlist link: https://www.bennywills.com/cccwaitlist
The article we talked about in this video:
https://www.bennywills.com/blog/porn-s-plan-for-you
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
59min
May 22, 2024 Performance Art, Cancellation, & Female Exhibitionism: Solid Ground with Carolyn Stirling
Carolyn is a lifelong learner. She is a freethinking student of
history, psychology, nutrition, spirituality, entheogens, wellness, the
occult, the culture wars, and more. She is a wife, mother, and
conspiracy realist.
Carolyn is a highly creative person. She enjoys singing, dancing,
sewing, painting, drawing, writing, homesteading, etc. This is her
much-neglected website for her dance:
https://pandorabellydance.weebly.com/
Her overused Facebook page is
https://www.facebook.com/Pandoradance
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid
Ground Live stream. Find us at Solidgroundsupport.com
Twitter
@jleslieelliott
@dissidentdelite
@deborahknox
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 2min
May 21, 2024 Melanie Bennet on Climate Advocacy, Queering Education, and the "Myth" of Childhood Innocence
Melanie is a Canadian who lived in the UK most of her life. When she
moved back to Canada in 2017, she faced a culture shock of wokeness.
Melanie has spend most of her working career in STEM research so she
turned to researching the roots of queer theory after coming face to
face with it in her own family. Melanie communicates her finding on her
YouTube channel and works with local parent and concerned Canadian
groups.
Find her on youtube: ⁠
and on Twitter: @finkledusty
________________________________________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 5min
May 21, 2024 Is Race a Biological Reality? Race Metatheory with Dr. Mario Burns
Dr. Mario Burns was born and raised in St, Louis, Missouri. He served
six years of honorable service in the United States Air Force
(1999-2005) as a Security Forces member and is a combat veteran having
served tours in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Mario received his Ph.D. in
counselor education and supervision from the University of Texas at San
Antonio. Mario is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S;
Missouri & Tennessee), Certified Rehabilitative Counselor (CRC), and
Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Mario currently works as a
readjustment counselor with the VA Vet Center in Nashville Tennessee
where he provides therapeutic counseling for military veterans and their
families. His research interests include veteran’s studies, disability
studies, counselor education, supervision, and issues related to race.
Mario is the primary author of Race Metatheory (RMT) and is the Founder,
Pastor, and President of Soul Life Ministries Corp. Soul Life is a 501
(C)(3) non-profit church and charity which provides a means to achieve
his professional and personal goals of increasing positive societal
imagination around unifying shared visions and possibilities towards the
betterment of society by addressing complex issues with intelligible
approaches. www.soullifechurch.org
Dr Burns' Manifesto on Race:
https://youtu.be/tsZq2-l53BQ?si=xyPFpPbAZXYay2EK
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
54min
May 09, 2024 Cancellation and Taboo in Academia, with Dr. Jamie Q. Roberts
About Jamie, in his own words: In my PhD I tried to develop a model to explain the nature of good and evil. I drew on literature and philosophy (Plato,
Conrad, Tolsoy, Nietzsche - amongst others) to explore how people do bad
things for the sake of power and belonging to the group. I learned that
nothing ever really changes - the way the academics around me behaved
fitted very closely with what I read in various classic works of
literature and philosophy. The PhD experience (2005-2009) was pretty
grim. There was more miserable ID Pol and idiot Postmodernism - and more
cruel arts academics. I was so disillusioned with academia I got a job
teaching academic skills at the University of New South Wales. This was
unambitious of me, but I was able to do a lot of teaching, which I still
love, and essentially teach people to think critically and write
coherently. In 2020 I became an academic at Sydney University in the
department of Politics and International Relations. At USYD I taught
International Relations / International Security and Politics and
Popular Culture, and I wrote The Way of the Intellectual Dark Web. The
Identity Politics was always bad there, but it has got worse in recent
years - so no, I don't think we are past peak woke yet. Honestly,
despite many high points with teaching, for the most part, my whole
being recoils at how intellectually corrupt university is. Working there
is very much like sticking with an abusive relationship. I'm actually
currently on personal leave because it has all become too much - the
bullying superiors, the censorious students. It's very hard to do my
job; i.e. pursue truth. I'm always balancing my commitment to truth with
my own fears about how much I will be attacked if I step out of line
(and the attacks are quite regular).
Outside all this, I write novels - nothing published yet. I also write
music. And I am starting to build a vast art environment on some land
that I own - my dream has always been to do this (The Wollemi Art Farm).

My heart lies with art: literature, music and whatever I'm doing on my
land, but also with teaching. I hope to bring people out to my land and
teach them about the classics: Shakespeare, Shelley, Carroll, Sterne,
Larkin, Forster. I also run quests on my land - like Zelda, but in real
life.
Oh, and I also spend a lot of my time with my two children - I love
going on adventures with them. There's nothing better, really.
Here is the link to my 'suspended' book about the IDW:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003318033/way-intellectual-dark-web-jamie-roberts
Here are some links to a few recent articles:
https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-shakespeares-hamlet-the-everest-of-literature-164070
https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-by-thomas-de-quincey-a-dense-strange-journey-through-addiction-190435
https://www.amazon.com.au/Essentials-Essay-Writing-What-Markers/dp/1137575840
Here are links to two academic skills books I wrote:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Essentials-Essay-Writing-What-Markers/dp/1137575840
https://www.amazon.com.au/Reading-University-Improve-Focus-Better/dp/1352009161
Here are links to a couple of my songs:
https://youtu.be/hOlYNBu0M2w?si=EgggOAmpSRuE8uEX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLaerTvzDEo
Here is a link to my business / art enterprise:
https://wollemiartfarm.com.au/
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 12min
May 09, 2024 Is this Therapy? with Christine Sefein Wolk & Carob Marcelle
Kink-affirming, polyamory promoting... is this therapy?

Christine Sefein Wolk of Critical Therapy Antidote
criticaltherapyantidote.org/
and parents' rights advocate Carob Marcelle join me to talk about therapy and the promotion of progressive sexual ideology.
Find more from Christine at https://www.youtube.com/@ctapodcast which
she hosts along with Jaco Van Zyl
And you can also find more from Carob at
https://www.youtube.com/@UC9LGYDq130G42FyfCJJLOZA
She is also on Twitter at @carobmarcelle
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is:
https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter
@JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my
continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following
(thank you very much!):
https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter

...more
1h 5min

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