I am left learning from a family of traditional working class Labour voters when Labour ideology was based on class criticism and collective rights (right to health care, good housing, women’s rights etc.). For that reason I have not bought the Guardian for many years as it had drifted into a lot of naval gazing nonsense much of the time and wasn’t saying anything new or even coherent. I found their journalistic voice to be very Londoncentric and smug. So never a Guardian subscriber (although potentially one if they returned to a leftist politics l recognized). I am also politically homeless as no party is supportive of women’s rights and acknowledges our biological reality, despite being 50% of the population!
Since I have become much more aware of GC and understood the very unbelievable scary effect that bad philosophy (such as Queer Theory) was having on politics, I have taken out subscriptions for publications online that are not too scared to debate and discuss these topics and have GC articles and writers, these include:
Medium (website that publishes essays on every topic, lots of great GC writers on there that have been blocked on Twitter or shut down in other formats, as well as every other point of view).
The Times
The Spectator
I also spend money for the first time in my life on crowdfunding such projects as Posie Parker posters and Dr. Nicola Williams’ organization. I also bought 3 of Posie’s dictionary definition of women t-shirts. I am definitely willing and able to spend money supporting women politically. The idea that crowdfunding is being done by the far-right is laughable when we are all aware that Gender Critical women are often on the left and there are a lot of us, very willing to give concrete support to organizations and individuals willing to stand up for us!
Also since the election of Trump and the attacks he has made on the media I also took out online subscriptions to a number of US publications that I often read. I also read European publications online such as the international version of Der Speigel in English to keep abreast of what the Germans are discussing politically because they are the biggest economy in Europe and big readers and thinkers as a nation.
My current project is reading about where all these ideas have originated, such as biological sex being a social construct (Judith Butler the mother of Queer Theory and her critics) and how they have become orthodoxy in academia. What I am puzzled by is how the idea that no-platforming and shutting down free speech is acceptable by so much of the left now.