“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.”
Everywhere Insiders 61: Italian Citizenship, Academic Integrity, Middle East Security, and Ukraine
How do citizenship law, academic integrity, regional defense alliances, and Ukraine’s air-defense challenges reflect wider questions of institutional credibility and geopolitical security?
“The appropriate standard should remain the same: examine the evidence, apply consistent academic standards, distinguish documented findings from allegations, and avoid treating either someone’s identity or the politics surrounding a controversy as proof of guilt or innocence.”
Children’s Rights, Care, and the Social Construction of Gender
How do relational dynamics, alloparenting, and gender expectations shape children’s development within partnership and domination systems?
“The virtue of studying relational dynamics, which is my methodology, is that it looks at interconnections. It connects the dots.”
This Gay Week 30: Policy, Pride, and Repression
How are U.S. policies and global political movements intensifying threats to LGBTQ rights?
“In democratic systems, they need an imprimatur of legitimacy. This is one way they create it.”
Everywhere Insiders 60: Israel, Icelandic Whaling, AI Cybersecurity, and Cambodia
How do Israel’s generational divide, Icelandic whaling, AI cybersecurity failures, and Cambodia’s human rights crisis reflect broader geopolitical risks?
“Human rights should not depend on whether a population happens to live in a country considered useful by major powers.”
AI, Leisure, Partnership Systems, and Cultural Transformation
How could AI, guaranteed income, and partnership systems transform leisure, caregiving, creativity, and social equality?
“A guaranteed annual income would not be treated merely as an expense, but as an investment in people’s capacity to be creative and to actualize themselves.”