I haven’t, by choice, been very involved in the world of Gadfly and the supporters of Todd Eklof since I wrote my initial articles two years ago. It’s exhausting, mentally and spiritually. This year, I found myself drawn back in after a handful of people started posting hundreds of messages…

Last year, Frank Casper of the Fifth Principle Project wrote an article attempting to link a workshop I did with Dr. Sharon Welch at the 2020 UUA General Assembly attempting to link ideas from my workshop to a more private controversy in the UUA. …

Frank Casper, one of the founders of the Fifth Principle Project and a staunch defender of the Gadfly narrative, recently attended the 2020 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly and came away with a narrative in which some Unitarian Universalists are destroying the liberal values America is built upon. …

It happens all too often in activist circles: someone is telling about their experience of having a traditionally oppressed identity, or, during a webinar, a facilitator uses a phrase that may be new to the person hearing it. “Excuse me,” you’ll here, “Are those really the right words to describe…

The interesting thing about your response is I never claimed Eklof did attack any marginalized groups overtly and never used the word "white supremacist" with regard to The Gadfly Papers. I also genuinely can't decide whether you've deliberately misunderstood what I mean by the word "white supremacist" to try to draw me into semantic games after I said I'm not interested in that or if you genuinely believe that only overly racist attitudes are white supremacist. Either way, you're wrong-headed and wrong.

Nearly a year ago, I wrote an article detailing my criticisms of the way the narrative of events in Todd Eklof’s The Gadfly Papers was constructed. It was not an exhaustive deconstruction of Eklof’s ideas but, rather, a questioning of whether his version of events, events which he mostly had…

I want to tell you a story: I voted in my first presidential election in 2000, just a couple weeks after my twentieth birthday. I was not excited at all about either candidate: George W. Bush was highly problematic and Al Gore seemed dull, uninspired, and centrist. I have never…

virtue signaling: the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one’s good character or the moral correctness of one’s position on a particular issue. — Oxford If you’ve never encountered accusations of virtue signaling in the wild, consider yourself lucky. Although the concept originated innocently…