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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November 10, 2023 Post Gender Conference AGP Purity Spiral, with Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
There is much more to say on this topic, but Pam and I work through some
initial reactions- please share your thoughts in the comments!
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, LCSW is known as "The Truthful Therapist"
because after she lost her job for choosing not to take the c*vid
v*cc*ne, she decided to step up and publicly tell the truth about how
corroded the mental health system is. With her 20+ years of experience,
Pamela has built an online program to help parents find
non-ideologically driven therapy.
She also does online consultations for parents who don't know where to
begin, or to help them figure out if their child's therapist is
ethically sound. She encourages parents to question authority and to
trust their instincts.
You can find her on her website www.thetruthfultherapist.org
Her YouTube is @thetruthfultherapist
IG is @the.truthfultherapist
twitter @truththerapist
Substack is https://substack.com/@pamthetruthfultherapist
You can see her in two major documentaries:
www.gendertransformation.com (by the Epoch Times)
And https://www.amazon.com/Dysconnected-Daisy-Strongin/dp/B0CHPMN42K
Pamela has a book coming soon that is called "A Rational Approach to
Gender Distress, Tips and Tools for Families"
____________________________________________________________________________
To contact me: 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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39min
November 10, 2023 Genspect Denver Conference: Solid Ground Live Stream #42
Benjamin, Jennifer, and I discuss some impressions from the Genspect
conference in Denver, as well as some of Benjamin's thoughts on how the
conversation about gender has been evolving.
Benjamin on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminABoyce
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0wMTJ29BFsJVH6cjlFgAtq?si=Dz7AevhlTQ-OTcbXPdF5nw
and twitter:
Jen on twitter: @dissidentdelite
_____________________________________________________________________________To contact me: 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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59min
October 25, 2023 Attacked by Trans Activist: Solid Ground Live Stream
"T" is a mother, a Solid Ground member, and a Canadian/American woman
who was out with a group in British Colombia on Saturday protesting the
inclusion of "SOGI" (Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity) curriculum in
schools. She was attacked by a male counter-protester who was carrying a
"no place for hate" sign. She joins us to share her experience and to
discuss her own evolving perspective on the cultural conversation around
gender.
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
@smith_surge
__________________________________________________________________________________
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
October 18, 2023 Marginalizing the Individual: How CRT Gets it Wrong. A Conversation with Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
Wink Twyman's substack:
https://twyman.substack.com/p/the-souls-of-black-folks
And the book, Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race
in America (co-authored with Jennifer Richmond). Letters in Black and
White is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble:
https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Black-White-Correspondence-America/dp/1634312368
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/letters-in-black-and-white-jennifer-richmond/1140922930?ean=9781634312363
About Winkfield Twyman, Jr., in his own words:
My story is an American story.
My name is Wink and I am a native Virginian living in San Diego,
California. I have been married for over thirty years. My wife and I are
parents to three adult children doing marvelous things. Like you,
Leslie, I have always had a somewhat unconventional perspective,
questioning what I'm told and thinking outside the box.
I earned a BA with High Honors in the History Special Scholars program
at the University of Virginia in 1983. I went straight to law school in
1983, and unlike you, persisted through to graduation at Harvard Law
School in 1986. I admire your courage of your convictions to decide a
legal career was not for you.
After law school, I worked at a major law firm in New York City because
it was the thing to do as as recent graduate. I did not like the
practice of law in a firm, so I sought out more rewarding opportunities
on Capitol Hill where I worked for Congressman Barney Frank as a
legislative assistant and as a professional staff member for the U.S.
House of Representatives' Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee's
Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.
The scholar and writer in me led me to academia. First, I worked as a
legal research and writing adjunct professor at George Mason Law School
(Arlington, Virginia) before a law professor position at California
Western School of Law in San Diego.
Today, I remain a lawyer but I find fulfillment in research and writing
about race and my life. All in all, I am troubled by dogma in the public
square. The shibboleth Blackness is Oppression. Nothing else matters
disturbs me as I grew up in a southern, suburban small-town in the 1970s
in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Blackness meant Enterprise, Triumph
over Adversity. Blackness never meant oppression. I never see myself in
diversity, equity and inclusion slogan words like Oppression, White
Privilege, and Marginalization,
As an introverted intuitive, a highly sensitive and emotionally intense
person, I choose to not engage most social media. I do not engage
bullies as a life principle. Those who are inclined to reach me can find
me on Facebook under my name, Wink Twyman, and at my lonely Substack,
Winkfield Twyman. I am up to about 175 essays on all sorts of race
matters. I promise readers I will never subscribe to dogma or use slogan
words to understand the world.
My recent book is Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on
Race in America (co-authored with Jennifer Richmond). Letters in Black
and White is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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1h 35min
October 17, 2023 How "Housing First" Policies are Hurting Communities: Solid Ground Live #40
We are back after a week off, and joined by Andrew Didway, a community
mental health peer support specialist in Portland Oregon. Andrew
describes how "housing first" policies and a "social justice" mindset
that refuses to hold homeless addicts accountable for criminal and
dangerous behavior are contributing to unsafe and decaying communities. A
sobering conversation that offers a peek into how Portland is
addressing the problem of homelessness.
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
@smith_surge
__________________________________________________________________________________
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
October 06, 2023 Canadians March for Children: Solid Ground Livestream #40
We are joined by Catherine Kronas, Chanel Pfahl, and Julia Malott of
Ontario, Canada, to discuss the movement against woke indoctrination in
Canadian schools.
Catherine on Twitter @catherinekronas; https://www.lighthouseforum.ca
Julia on Twitter: @alottamallotta;
https://www.youtube.com/@alottamalotta
Chanel on Twitter: @chanLPfa
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
@smith_surge
__________________________________________________________________________________
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 13min
October 06, 2023 Ideology in Medicine: Material Solutions to Spiritual Problems, with Dr. Carrie Mendoza
Carrie Edelstein Mendoza, MD, MA, FACEP has over 20 years practicing
emergency medicine in rural, suburban, and urban hospitals treating
snakebites to gun shot wounds to 1000s of Covid-19 patients. She is a
medical technology inventor with two patents for an Emergency Department
communications app. Carrie is a healthcare policy advocate and social
entrepreneur with non-profit FAIR, The Foundation Against Intolerance
and Racism, serving as the Director of FAIR in Medicine.
We spoke today about how ideology and bureaucracy are distorting the
practice of medicine (and Carrie's playful dogs provided an amusing
backdrop).
For more from Carrie here is an excellent short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkUU3cLRzs
And you can find out more about FAIR In Medicine here:
https://www.fairforall.org/fair-in-medicine/
and on twitter @FAIRinMedicine
_____________________________________________________________________________
To contact me: 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
September 25, 2023 Weaponization of Tolerance in Faith Communities: Solid Ground Live Stream #39 9/25/23
Today Jen and I were joined by Carob and Christine to fill in for David
and Deborah while they are on vacation (separately, as far as we know!).
We also had Tiffany Barker on to share the LDS perspective on the
issue of how faith communities are getting caught in the culture wars.
We discussed how values of tolerance and "being nice" have been used to
get people (secular and religious) to accept cultural changes they
otherwise would not.
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
Tiffany Barker is on instagram @charmfullychic and Youtube @Tifflee24
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 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
September 22, 2023 Exposing "Ethnic Studies"- Live with Christine Sefein & Carob Marcelle
Christine Sefein Wolk of Critical Therapy Antidote
criticaltherapyantidote.org/
and parents' rights advocate Carob Marcelle join me to talk about the
"California Model" of Ethnic Studies, which is going to be launching in a
number of states across the US in 2024. We take a look at some of the
components of this model and why parents- and all citizens- should be
concerned.
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
______________________________________________________________________________
To contact me: 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
September 18, 2023 "I am very optimistic": Mike Burke on Cancellation & Countering Wokeness
Mike Burke is an academic from England whose research and consulting
interests include education, political philosophy, and ideology. His
present research focus is on Critical Social Justice (CSJ) ideology and
the advantages and challenges it poses to the national security of the
United Kingdom and other liberal democracies, by extension. He has also
written on and maintains an interest in Islamism and contemporary
far-right thinking. Mike is one of the hosts for the Institute for
Liberal Values podcast, The Dissidents.
You can find the podcast here
https://www.youtube.com/@UC_KsRU0DLloYbzzyG5c944Q
Mike on Twitter: @mike_burke_uk
Recommended reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Victimhood_Culture
______________________________________________________________________________
To contact me: 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 3min

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How many episodes does the radical center have?

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