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Current Affairs

A Magazine of Politics and Culture

Mattie Lubchansky

Proposed Alternatives to Gender Reveals

A few exciting and much-safer nonbinary celebrations to take the place of the disaster that is the gender reveal party.

Everyone loves a party or an explosion. But gender reveals have their problems. For one thing, it’s impossible to know what an unborn child’s gender is. Also, some gender reveals cause catastrophic wildfires. Allow Current Affairs to propose some far more reasonable but equally fun alternatives!

Name Reveals

“Whether It’s An Alien” Reveals

Fate Reveals

Mental Illness Reveals

Shape Reveals

Weather Reveals

Paternity Reveals

“Whether It’s Time To Flee” Reveals

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Announcing Our Newest Issue

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Celebrating our Ninth Year of publication! Lots to stimulate your brain with in this issue: how to address the crisis of pedestrian deaths (hint: stop blaming cars!), the meaning of modern art, is political poetry any good?, and the colonial adventures of Tinin. Plus Karl Marx and the new Gorilla Diet!

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