We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Dishinsky, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

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Today we're joined by Erin Holmes.

Her bio is researching and building and publishing defense, identity, and payments.

And you should absolutely check out her most recent article over at thepublicinsight.org where a lot of that research is being published.

The recent article is called pedophilia normalization and the battle for legislative frameworks.

Erin, thank you for joining us.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Of course, this article is so interesting. It is so research-heavy and I think on a topic obviously that people are really uncomfortable with,

despite the fact that it's also becoming increasingly important and important, I think, to talk about in a way that reflects the reality that is very much coming from the left and the historical traditions that the left is drawing on.

So Erin, could you start just by telling us why you wanted to write this article and why you've been working on research in this space?

Sure.

We started researching this sort of stuff, I don't know, I'd say maybe like about a year ago.

And I wrote a few articles about it and it was published in news publications and then I just sort of had a lot of people come to me, especially just directly message me.

With things that I was saying, they had been noticing this stuff for a long time and I think it sort of ties into a lot of the movements that are going on right now.

And I think it ties in in interesting ways that aren't really talked about as much.

And you start with the Balenciaga controversy and one of the really interesting things you pick up on is the Ashcroff versus free speech, speech coalition, the court, the printout of the court opinion that was in the Balenciaga ad campaign or the Balenciaga photos that went massively viral and Balenciaga eventually yanked away and tried to overt blame and all of that stuff that people might remember from

November, but can you you zero in on Ashcroff versus free speech coalition as it sort of its importance as a document to the country.

And in terms of precedent in this space, can you talk to us a little bit about Ashcroff versus free speech coalition coalition and coalition and what it's meant.

Sure, so I've written several reports on pro pedophilia organizations and I say pro pedophilia because it's not even really an allegation at this point they openly advocate for the rights of the pedophile.

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