Disasters

Candara Pangi: The Biohazard Born in Monkey Brothels

It began in a small village in central Indonesia. In 2018, in Kareng Pangi, a remote community in Kalimantan Tengah, authorities raided and shut down an illegal monkey brothel where a captured orangutan was being used for sex acts. The site was squalid, horrifying—and the outbreak had already begun. That’s where the virus got its […]

Wokeness

Ape love and monkeypox: Interview with a Swedish “apemantic” woman

Today, I had the privilege of speaking with Karin S, a Swedish woman who proudly identifies as “apemantic” and claims to have sex with apes. But what makes her story even more wild is the fact that she not only contracted monkeypox during the 2022 epidemic, but she actually welcomed it with open arms! According […]