New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Benjamin Harris reviews 'The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-1914' by @tommenger.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sonia Corrêa’s article “The Escalation of Essentialist Feminism in Times of the Ultra-Right in Brazil” unpacks a 2023-2024 study on Brazil’s anti-gender politics, the swell of attacks on trans rights & the role of essentialist feminism www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New Special Issue on "Masculinity, masculinist politics, and political extremism" in Journal of Gender Studies, edited by C-REX theme leader @katrif.bsky.social and colleagues. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, Teaching Gender! It's been fab to hear from people who have read, & taught, it in the last year. If you have institutional access, you can read it here: academic.oup.com/book/59787 - or ask your library to acquire a copy!

@michellelkahn.bsky.social chose Annalisa Martin's 'Prostitution as Profession', which "compellingly examines commercial sex as an unrecognized form of labour... [making] an important case for the need to consider prostitution as a legitimate profession". [3/7] tinyurl.com/yc6btkss

Call for abstracts, special issue of Kvinder, Køn & Forskning / Women, Gender & Research, “The Lesbian Issue” tidsskrift.dk/KKF/announce...

I am OK with copy-editors Americanising my beautiful manuscript text.

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

Rechtsextreme Ideologie kommt heute als „Tradwife“-Ästhetik, nachhaltiger Lifestyle oder ironisches Meme daher. Über diese kulturelle Tarnung, ihre Funktion & ihre Wirkung spricht @maik.machine-vs-rage.net mit Elke Gaugele & @gretajasser.bsky.social. Infos: www.idz-jena.de/vadet/hip-co...

NEW ISSUE IS NOW OUT! 📄 Read our latest issue, "Female Humanitarian Aid in Europe During the Greater War (1912-1925)" out now on Project Muse. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56459

TERF-miljøet utvikler seg omtrent akkurat som forventet, del 22: Glimrende kartlegging av TERF-bevegelsen signert @annadahlqvist.bsky.social. Eneste svakhet er at alliansen mellom radikalfeminister og kristenhøyre fremstilles som noe uventet. Det er tvert 100% forventet. www.ottar.se/svenska-femi...

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people. So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New online portal with documents on the post 1945 German far right. radikale-rechte.de

The story has been picked up by mainstream press. Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

- Since the pandemic, anti‑trans mobilization has become one of the sharpest weapons of the far right - and, as the UK shows, its damage extends far beyond the far right. New blog post by former C-REX postdoc @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social #TransRights #UKPolitics www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

I wrote down some preliminary thoughts on how to understand the place of anti-trans ideology in far right as well as left-wing and liberal politics. This form of reaction is fundamental to the right, but its potential is much broader, as the UK demonstrates.

While Grok faces investigations for generating sexualized AI images, including of children, Alliance Defending Freedom International is backing Elon Musk in X’s fight against EU regulation. A group that brands itself as pro family is defending a platform under scrutiny for AI driven exploitation.

these laws are a political project by which the state attempts to assume the power to decide sex and gender, power it does not have—and power it will express “incorrectly” because that’s power, too

Call for papers open until March 15, 2026.

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

🟥 Red Lines 🟥 "Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation" Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book reacpol.net/why-red-line...

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Antifeminismus wird lauter und politisch einflussreicher – von digitalen Hassforen über rechtsextreme Ideologien bis zu Angriffen auf Reproduktionsrechte. Was steckt hinter diesen Dynamiken und wie bedrohen sie demokratische Räume? 👉 www.politikum.org/Kampfzone-Antifeminismus/Pk1-26

I Never Thought The Leopards Would Eat My Face, sobs woman who wrote innumerable opinion columns about how there were reasonable concerns about how regulations banning leopards eating people’s faces endangered women

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Transnational Transphobias: Feminist and Traditionalist Anti-Gender Affective Orientations - https://cup.org/4kGYktp - M. McLoughlin (Syracuse University) #FirstView

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

According to Cristian Terhes, the legal recognition of trans women 'undermines the very essence of our civilization', highlighting that transphobia touches something fundamental to the far right. www.erininthemorning.com/p/european-p...

1/5 En svært viktig votering fant sted i EU-parlamentet denne uken, i forkant av forhandlingene under FNs Kvinnekonvensjon (CSW) i New York neste måned. Blant mange saker som var oppe til behandling, er det særlig ett punkt som markerer et vesentlig politisk veivalg:

Scary stuff, and not the only source of oil money influencing UK universities

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”

The Venn Diagram between racists and transphobes is a circle. The actions of the far right against migrants and how likes of many "gender critical activists" act towards trans and non-binary individuals are one and the same. It was inevitable it would escalate. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/06/t...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

what if the real sex trafficking cabal was just the patriarchy we made along the way

For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇

I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.

Why do so many proponents of traditional marriage and patriarchy advise us to look back to the 'good old days'? Hannah Skoda on nostalgia and entangled forms of abuse.

the choice between “the zionist pedophile cabal is real” and “the banal exercise of dysfunctional concentrations of power crushes human life” is the choice between the socialism of fools and actual socialism

Can't wait to read this! Their chapter on Denaturing cisness was very helpful in guiding my own thoughts on trans history, so I'm excited to read a whole book. :)

SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Rough day for Sex Matters

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Come do a MSCA postdoc with the Research Group on Populism, Anti-Gender, and Democracy at the University of Stavanger. You will be working with excellent people in our beautiful city on the fjord. www.uis.no/en/research/...

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Goodwin is, at least partially, the product of an academic field whose main focus was the analysis of white supremacist politics but which avoided, and largely still avoids, talking in terms of whiteness or engage with the woke of those who study it from Du Bois onwards.