a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

Trump sympathizes with the man accused of domestic violence.

JUST IN from @ashleymurray.bsky.social A federal appeals court on Monday upheld that President Donald Trump must pay an $83 million penalty for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.

Monstrous. Noem failed to renew contracts and let hundreds of FEMA contractors be fired DURING the TX flood response, leaving thousands of victims unable to reach help. The acting head of FEMA has no disaster management experience and has been MIA since his appointment—all per NYT report

It is a crisis.

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

#MeToo cases like Diddy, Lively-Baldoni, and Depp-Heard are important because of what they say about money. Juries still see procuring (paying for), and settlements (paying off) about sexual violence as sex.

See you soon!

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

Trump throwing a military parade for himself despite never serving in the military is a metaphor for his entire existence.

Donald Trump is not protecting women by attacking our rights. That's why we're tracking all the way's that he's coming after women and families over the last 100+ days. Check out our report here: nwlc.org/press-releas...

I wrote this piece 2 years ago, much closer to the start of my transition, when my struggle for self-acceptance was more raw. I'm in a different place now, but writing this essay was an important step in getting here. Excited to share it just in time for Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ www.academia.edu/129873399/_G...

F everything and come see me Nate talk about Pym in July! Harvard bookstore. Embrace your inner Penguin! (Link below)

Paternalistic authoritarianism, then and now @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social

Enjoyed the film Anatomy of a Fall? @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Rosanne Kennedy and Leigh Gilmore analyse how the mother and son navigate the courtroom and learn to become increasingly authoritative witnesses in a new article in Gender & Justice: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Happy to have written this with Rosanne Kennedy for a terrific new feminist law journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social

I might be late to the Emma Copley Eisenberg party, but I am not leaving until I’m covered in glitter and dancing on a table. This book is brilliant.

Honored and psyched for this visit. In conversation with the brilliant @antigonesdream.bsky.social

Apparently the Trump administration doesn't want to know anything about the weather anymore www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

Brave witness and invaluable perspective from Marianne Hirsch.

Huge crowd in Boston!

Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...

Marianne Hirsch for context and insight.

“The standard for acceptable behavior is so low that anyone else can clear it,” said Leigh Gilmore, author of The #MeToo Effect. In the age of Trump, men like Cuomo “are hoping that there's a new norm and that the misogyny, cruelty, and lack of accountability will actually work in their favor.”

“Cuomo could make things better for the women of New York City—by dropping out of the race.” The Contrarian's resident culture writer, Meredith Blake, discusses Andrew Cuomo's mayoral bid and the trend of disgraced men seeking redemption through public office.

Please circulate this call widely and let's get the 'Sisterhood; mobilised on this issue Please get in touch if you have suggestions for US-based speakers. We need to have this conversation @leighgoodmark.bsky.social @lgilmore.bsky.social @mlafineman.bsky.social @maggieoneill.bsky.social

Cuomo = Trump. Cuomo IS Trump in every way that matters. New Yorkers: Don’t Rank Cuomo or Eric Adams for Mayor. There are so many legit candidates there is no excuse. #HellNoCuomo

Powerful words from @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Who sexually harassed Cassie Hutchinson and will they be subject to ethics inquiries?

Just terrifying that this totally inexperienced and capricious opportunist, in thrall to a mash up of extremist ideologies, the most coherent of which is savage misogyny, is about to be one skipped beat of an obese elderly man’s heart away from the presidency.

The numbing regularity of the cover up of sexual abuse.

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

"One key feature of rape culture: how ordinary many of the men who rape are," writes @lgilmore.bsky.social. "We cannot understand this case without confronting the disturbing reality that the men who raped Gisèle went about their lives without suspicion." Must read. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

I wrote about the Pelicot case and the ordinariness of men who rape.

#MLA25 attendees, plz check out our roundtable on "Unaccountably Queer" on Thurs Jan 9 @ 3:30PM in Camp Room (3rd floor) of Hilton Riverside. Presenters include Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, Amber Jamilla Musser, Lynne Huffer, Megan Cole Paustian, @lgilmore.bsky.social, & @cassiusa.bsky.social

The Editorial Management Board of Gender & Justice invites applications for a Co-Editor in Chief to join the existing editorial team of the journal. Applications close on 31 January 2025. Details: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... Please circulate

Uh… when a number of people decide not to vote for a candidate because she’s a woman and not white, that is the very definition of identity politics.

A Post investigation found at least 1,800 law enforcement officers were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022. After years of reporting on children being violated by the officers sworn to protect them, here’s what we’ve learned: