UCLA’s Official Magazine Embraces Fringe Communities: Furries, BDSM, and Void Punk

In the latest edition of UCLA’s queer student magazine, featuring so-called “Freaks,” students at the prestigious university cry for the acceptance of furries  and other fringe sexual preferences and identities into the larger LGBTQ movement.

The magazine, which can be read in its entirety online, begins with OutWrite magazine’s editor-in-chief claiming classmates in high school would openly bully a trans student as a “freak and a monster.” This edition of the queer student magazine is fashioned as a “love letter to the freaks: the queers, cringelords, furries, kinksters, and monsterf***ers alike,” the editor, Rainer Lee, writes.

“Explore with us what it means to be human and beyond,” Lee writes. “Come be a freak.”

In one essay titled, “For The Love of the Furries,” the author writes that he is “advocating for furries.”

“The way anti-furry stigma manifests is strikingly similar to past and present sexually-motivated constructions of queerness as an illness and a cause of moral panic,” the student writes, adding that it’s a “bigoted generalization” to say being a furry is a fetish.

The OutWrite magazine is copyrighted by the Associated Students of UCLA’s Communications Board, the student government of UCLA, and is another example of its embrace of radical liberal ideology. First-year students at the university were recently encouraged to listen to the “Idigenae” podcast that discusses people identifying as “two-spirit” and “womxn.” The university has also come under fire for its medical school infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion into the curriculum, hosting a mandatory “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course where students read about wars of indigenous resistance including a massacre of white people by Native Americans to “imagine what liberation could look like.”

Another article in the OutWrite magazine argues that BDSM kinkiness — the common acronym for  bondage, discipline, dominance and submission — should be included in the larger LGBTQ+ movement. It argues that the pushback regarding exposing children to inappropriate material “reinforces the stigma of kinky people as dangerous deviants.”

“What difference does it make to see someone wearing a collar at Pride or see a parade float full of dominatrixes? The student writes. “The average viewer might take only a slight note of it, but it would make a world of difference to those involved in the kink community and those who want to be.”

The magazine includes a page that features a student who says he started “dressing like a freak to gain agency over the reason why the conservative Christrians I grew up with hated me.” Other students disclose suicidal thoughts that they attribute to the failure of society to accept them, a rejection that they say they are now choosing to embrace.

One writer, a self-described immigrant person of color whose actual gender is unclear based on the writing, complains that the United States he or she arrived in reinforces “capitalistic, heteronormative patriarchal circumstances” and pushed him or her to embrace “Void Punk,” a “subculture that refutes normative society’s idea of what it means to be human and instead celebrates the idea of not being human.”

The author states that “Void Punk” was created for “marginalized communities” who decide that they “don’t need to feel human.”

“Created for marginalized communities who often face dehumanization by an oppressive, normative society, it is commonly expressed through aesthetics of the inhuman,” the author writes. “The rhetoric surrounding humanity is largely decided by oppressive forces who find it convenient to decide who gets to be human and who does not. Dehumanization is a familiar instrument of colonization and conquest, a forced cognitive dissonance that allows the oppressor to justify violence.”

“I don’t feel human, and I don’t need to feel human,” the author concluded. “Instead, of having the label of humanity shoved onto me, I will choose to be with other people and care for them by not virtue of the ideal of humanity but for the sake of shared experience and care for the living.”

Recent polling shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as “LGBTQ,” a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of “kink” in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members.

Though this embrace of radical gender ideology has become commonplace on college campuses, it has broken through to the highest levels of government. The Biden administration raised eyebrows when it hired a transgender-identifying cross-dressing mana who once taught a spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The man, Sam Brinton, was fired after he was exposed for stealing multiple women’s clothing from airports.

A Virginia school district also recently put a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, the Daily Wire previously reported.

A Virginia school district recently put a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, the Daily Wire previously reported. The former Biden Administration official who was fired after he was exposed for stealing multiple women’s clothing spurred a national conversion over kinky people and even went on to teach a spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Recent polling shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as “LGBTQ,” a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of “kink” in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members.

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