Savage Minds was launched in 2020 because I saw the landscape of reporting on the voices of women around the cultural and political problem of gender identity and the political decisions made in reaction to the global pandemic as insufficient. So many stories were ignored or purposefully misrepresented and we set out to cover these issues.

Take, for instance, the WiSpa incident of 2021 which was misreported by all major media. We covered this issue and found that news stories entirely misrepresented this incident. Despite the presence of video corroboration and testimony of the other women present, Slate called @CubanaAngel's video of the incident a “hoax” and Guardian journalists reported that the  incident was “distorted by anti-transgender groups” The Los Angeles Times misrepresented this as a battle between the innocent “trans community” and “an international network of right-wing activists, pundits and media outlets” with no mention of the many lesbians and feminists who were critical of the dangers of allowing men in women’s and girls’ intimate spaces. The Independent and The Daily Beast also misrepresented the incident and the ensuing protests, a complete abandonment of factual reporting. We covered this issue through investigative journalism and reporting here finding another client of WiSpa who video-recorded @CubanaAngel making her video recording.

Some of the stories Savage Minds has covered include:

• the political policing in the UK around the subject of "gender identity"
• the real story of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion
• vaccine discrimination and the devastation wrought by lockdowns
• the political capture of society to deny the reality of sex
• the lobbies promoting the curtailment of free speech
• Big Tech's containment of the news through social media censorship
• the recent attack on an elderly gay activist by trans activists in the USA
• the age of sponsored news stories
• the encroachment of African nations by NATO
• the censorship of journalists and the alignment of media with political bodies
• Europe’s dependence upon Russian energy
• the geopolitical war over Mali
• the economy of “tolerable massacres”
• Topher Field's critique of the propaganda and theatre surrounding lockdowns
• the growing “non-alignment” movement
• the "judicial kidnapping" of Julian Assange

Savage Minds has a subscription model which we depend upon. However, many of our readers tell us that they prefer to give one-off donations. We need to raise the funds necessary to pay journalists as a single investigative story can take weeks, even months, of research, interviewing, writing, and editing.  Producing ethical news stories requires paying writers and editors a living wage. We are committed to bare-bones journalism where questions are asked, subjects are interviewed, facts are checked and all sides of the stories are represented. Savage Minds is asking those who are invested in returning to grassroots journalism to support our magazine and podcast.

In an era where political and scientific query necessitates coverage and information from all sides, it is clear that major news outlets will continue to operate as propaganda platforms with no due diligence to truth while disappearing what they deem to be oppositional voices and the lives of the disenfranchised.

What We Need

Your economic support of Savage Minds will mean that writers can conduct ground-breaking research and we can hold major media accountable for the fake news it disseminates. Here is what we need:

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