For all the hand-wringing over Democrats losing "the working class," union members actually shifted toward Harris in 2024. And beyond voting, unions are the one institution equipped to channel our collective will to resist authoritarianism into collective action to stop it.

We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.

This is utterly crucial. The key to Trump's arrogation of power these past few months has been his capturing of the future. He's trying to create an impression that his rule is forever. Every capitulation helps him do that. Reopening the future is an essential precondition for fighting Trumpism.

I'm certain this is a mistake but my book is somehow on Barnes & Noble's list of "Most Anticipated Nonfiction of 2025" (link below). BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City is out Aug 19th from @wwnorton.bsky.social

"At Harvard, for instance, while the university’s leadership has earned well-deserved plaudits for its legal challenges to the most egregious of Trump’s punitive measures, it was not, in fact, the administrators who took that bold step first. It was the faculty." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o...

It's hard to believe this documentary on the take-over of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords showed up on the @nytimes.com site. But watch it, if you haven't seen it. It's the history of anyone who has ever cared about health care for all. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Gender studies is dangerous to authoritarians. That’s why they always come for it. msmagazine.com/2025/06/26/g...

Just spitballing. Cause it's not like there's an extraordinarily detailed authoritarian playbook that every would be dictator has employed and we could absolutely predict every one of these moves. And also clear, established, patterns to what it requires to halt this assault.

Join us for a webinar on TUESDAY, JUNE 3rd at 11 AM EST, exploring how the MAGA movement is using gender to promote authoritarianism. Hear from experts Annie Wilkinson, ‪@ch4ncie44.bsky.social, @maryrreynolds.bsky.social, and Nourbese Flint, moderated by Kitana Ananda: bit.ly/100dayswebinarpart2

What does gender have to do with authoritarianism: Everything. Bouie on the Trumpist vision of the future that rejects “‘feminized’ service-sector capitalism” and a concern with climate change that “seems feminine.” Instead, let's reject rigid gender hierarchies. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Terrific analysis and advice. "This is not just an academic question: it is a political opportunity. Centre-left parties have followed the male gaze into chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter (narrowly defined as white men with rightwing sociocultural views)."

Why do authoritarians attack higher ed? @lpeproject.bsky.social "Our commitment to open inquiry over propaganda, to persuasion over coercion, to democracy over dictatorship provides a check on authoritarian rule." lpeproject.org/blog/eight-l...

I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union. But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.

May 6, 1933: Nazis destroyed Berlin's Institute for Sexual Research, which offered sex education classes, housed a 20,000 book library, and provided meeting spaces for feminist activists. Founder Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld: "Love is as varied as people are." www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Authoritarian: taking control of all higher education. Anti-authoritarian: Public and private Universities fighting back together. "The entire higher ed sector must reject this crude authoritarianism with one voice." @kirstenweld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Great to see Texas voters rejecting the far-right policymakers "with a blueprint for consolidating power under the guise of protecting women and children," as @ch4ncie44.bsky.social puts it in their "From Courts to Clinics" article in @praeyesright.bsky.social's Public Eye magazine.

53% disapprove of diversity attacks. "This might be because most Americans perceive something that these prominent commentators do not, that the administration’s attack on D.E.I. is less about fairness than it is recreating systems of domination and subordination." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o...

Trans healthcare bans are "central to the economic, racial, and gender hierarchies that white nationalism seeks to restore—structuring who counts as economically productive, socially legitimate, and worthy of public investment." @nbenas.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/trans-h...

LPE: "How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State" lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...

PRA’s @ch4ncie44.bsky.social analyzes how Texas AG Ken Paxton’s use of state power to target abortion and LGBTQ+ rights serves as a blueprint for far-right policymakers to consolidate power under the guise of protecting women and children. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2025/04/02/c....

Check out the Public Eye's full Winter/Spring 2025 issue, which illustrates the gender and authoritarianism throughlines in the attacks on public education, bodily autonomy, reproductive justice and more. And follow the Gender and Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social

We didn’t choose the relationship of enmity, but we can choose it and... we must. Kitana Ananda of Public Eye magazine (from Political Research Associates) asked me to write up a short piece on enemy feminisms and here it is. Thanks to @praeyesright.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2025/03/28/f...

Yes on Orbán's model, but the precedents for Trump's policies are also found in U.S. state legislatures' assaults on public education over the past decade. Look to West Virgina and Kentucky to see the consequences of white male minority rule. politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...

New work from the Gender & Authoritarian Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social