“In a society that treated people equally, you wouldn’t have to take precautions simply because of your sexuality.” Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Partnership and Democratic Resilience
How do partnership and domination shape democratic resilience, gender equality, and human rights?
“Democracy matters, and the idea of one person, one vote, if applied equally to everyone, matters.” — Riane Eisler
This Gay Week 35: LGBTQ Violence, Political Backlash, and Global Resistance
How are political rhetoric, hate violence, internal divisions, and international activism reshaping LGBTQ rights and security worldwide?
“You can have joy and resistance at the same time.”
Aninda Sidhana on Domestic Abuse, Divorce and Recovery
What does Dr. Aninda Sidhana’s experience reveal about domestic abuse, divorce recovery, and the importance of family support?
“Families need to make it possible for someone to return without feeling ashamed or rejected.” – Dr. Aninda Sidhana
Everywhere Insiders 65: U.S.-Iran Escalation, Ukraine Diplomacy, UN World Map Reform, and Gloria Steinem’s Feminist Legacy
How do U.S.-Iran tensions, Ukraine diplomacy, UN map reform, and Gloria Steinem’s legacy reflect shifting geopolitical and feminist debates?
“I expect things to get worse before they start to get better.” — Irina Tsukerman
This Gay Week 34: LGBTQ Rights, Pride, Political Backlash, and Global Solidarity
How are political backlash, religious conservatism, historical persecution, and grassroots activism shaping LGBTQ rights worldwide?
“Our tent not only is big enough to include LGBTQIA, but it should include them all.” — Karel Bouley
Everywhere Insiders 64: Disaster Preparedness and Governance
How do governance failures and geopolitical tensions affect disaster preparedness in the Himalayas and Latin America?
: “Essentially, the problem is a lack of sufficiently rapid information, warning, and communication.” Irina Tsukerman
This Gay Week 33: LGBTQ Rights, Russia, Africa, and Ukraine
How are war, authoritarianism, political scapegoating, and religious influence shaping LGBTQ rights in Russia, Africa, and beyond?
“I don’t see acceptance and equality for gay people, LGBTI+, as a Western value. I see it as a value of equality that you see propped up in different sectors of the world throughout time.”
Everywhere Insiders 63: Alex Jones, Ceuta Migration and Asia-Pacific Militarization
How are conspiracy politics, migration pressures, and emerging geopolitical alliances reshaping security across Europe and the Asia-Pacific?
“North Korea has positioned itself very differently from where it stood during Trump’s first-term diplomacy.”
Religion, Childhood Socialization, Care, and Partnership Systems
How do religious authority, childhood socialization, gender hierarchies, and caregiving shape the movement from domination toward partnership systems?
“Unlearning those patterns, or deconstructing them, is part of the movement toward partnership. But you also have to reconstruct.”, Riane Eisler
This Gay Week 32: Global LGBTQ Rights, Violence, Surveillance, and Queer History
How do Karel Bouley and Scott Douglas Jacobsen assess LGBTQ rights, anti-gay violence, surveillance, religious change, queer history, and global activism in 2026?
Bouley: “As far backward as some things have gone, there is still reason for hope. There are ways to learn about LGBTQ history. There are ways to read about it.”
Children’s Rights, Partnership Systems, Education, and Masculinity
How can partnership systems transform children’s rights, education, caregiving, and restrictive gender norms?
“We need alloparenting. The notion of blaming the mother for everything that goes wrong with a child is, if you will, a product of domination systems.”, Riane Eisler
Everywhere Insiders 62: Russia, Africa, Ebola, Gaza and Global Security in 2026
How are territorial disputes, humanitarian crises, Ebola, Gaza, and regional security reshaping global geopolitics in 2026?
“The central problem remains enforcement. The difficult question is how Hamas’s disarmament, Israeli withdrawal and the creation of a functioning postwar security arrangement will be achieved in practice.”
Corporal Punishment, Children’s Rights, Reproductive Autonomy, and Family Policy
How can children’s rights, reproductive autonomy, education, and institutional reform reduce preventable harm and strengthen family well-being?
“So ratifying the Convention is a beginning. In a better functioning international system, governments can be held more effectively to the commitments they have undertaken.”, Riane Eisler
This Gay Week 31: LGBTQ Rights, Online Hate, War, and Global Resistance
How do Karel Bouley and Scott Douglas Jacobsen connect LGBTQ rights, online hatred, war, political repression, and global queer resistance?
“Because someone doesn’t like me doesn’t mean they should die.” – Karel Bouley
Masculinity, Hierarchy, War, and Religious Submission
How do domination systems connect restrictive masculinity, punitive education, war, and religious structures of authority?
“The marginalization of family, childhood, gender stereotypes, and gender ranking as merely ancillary matters, or simply as ‘women’s issues’ or ‘children’s issues,’ is part of the fragmentation of consciousness.”