What an honor to have our article "Do Government Positions Held by Women Matter?" selected as an Editor's pick and a part of the new @politicsgenderj.bsky.social virtual issue! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social

I make this argument in detail in the following paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Look what I got in the mail! 📪 The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia, edited by Netina Tan and Yuko Kasuya. Check out my chapter on gender equality! edin.ac/4gv13nG @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @psawomenpol.bsky.social

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Powerful opening panel of feminist events led by E/SE #Asian scholars;urgent, intersectional, and deeply relevant in today’s climate of rising fascism & attacks on women’s rights. Discussions included @drsarahliu.bsky.social, Jiazhi Fengjiang. #feminism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sil...

Broken Silence-Event: 'A week of feminist art, talks, and workshops exploring women’s voices, autonomy, and resistance.' @drsarahliu.bsky.social will be speaking around 10:15 am Monday July 7th. I'll defo be there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sil... #edinburgh #intersectionalfeminism #Asianvoicea

A @uoe-sps.bsky.social, Staff Pride, BAME Network, & Queer.ED collab! Curtis Chin talks about growing up/ coming out as gay in a working-class immigrant community and first gen University student. ☕️🍵🍪 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everything... @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

A reminder that Hypatia publishes translations of important pieces of feminist philosophy from other languages into English, up to the usual word-limit of 10k. Can be a paper or a book chapter, and it's the would-be translator that makes the submission. Scroll down to 'Feminism in translation':

My review of Judith Butler's latest book is out in Contemporary Sociology! "Who's Afraid of Gender" is a must read for all, especially those on the fence about the attacks on trans folks/allies. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. 2/3

SPS Equality and Diversity Committee event: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, with Curtis Chin Thursday 29 May 3pm - 4:30pm LG.09, 40 George Square Book here: edin.ac/3R1z1Ee

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Friends in Edinburgh, please join me at my book talk on 'The Time Inheritors' @sunypress.bsky.social on 22 May at 11 am! Cannot wait to catch up with @kkcheuk.bsky.social @ninikerr.bsky.social @drsarahliu.bsky.social and thanks Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang @socanthedi.bsky.social for inviting me!

Marriage and parenthood are increasingly associated with fear and anxiety among South Korea’s younger generation, according to an analysis released. www.koreaherald.com/article/1043...

Very excited to share that our paper on Latino group identity is out! In this article @profdanielle.bsky.social and I discuss how for Puerto Ricans in the U.S. skin tone and racial identification impact feelings of group closeness to Latinos and Black linked fate. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us on March 20 for an insightful discussion on Transgender Equality! 📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump 📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute ⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM 🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social 🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP

💥Excited to share my new publication co-authored w/ Cameron Anderson (UWO) and Mike McGregor (TMU) on gender and emotional reactions to sexual misconduct allegations against municipal councillors. The first 50 downloads are available for free: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VCUIM...

New article in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @drorlysiow.bsky.social. We analyze how intersectionality has been used in gender and politics research, and explore how can it be used in ways more closely aligned with Black feminist theory. #gendersky #polisky

We dig deeper than usual into how exactly individuals react to hearing welfare benefits might go to minorities and immigrants. We find four really interesting things, two that give you reason for pessimism, one for optimism and on which you can decide on yourselves 🧵

My small act of standing up for myself today was telling the man next to me on the metro to close his legs. 👊

This is finally out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Important piece by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gender research in political science’s ‘top’ 6 journals, 2017-2023. The findings for LGBTIQ research are particularly dire, coming in at only .55% (16 of 2,892 items); and less when considering full research articles.

Academia in a time of genocide: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

"We find that when passion is expressed by men, it’s often seen as a promising indicator of diligence and leadership capacity. Yet when women display the same passion, they face a different reaction — one that deems their passionate expressions as inappropriate." hbr.org/2024/12/rese...

New article with @brownphdgirl.bsky.social Christopher J. Clarke, Anna M. Mahoney, Michael G. Strawbridge introducing our Critical Perspectives Series for @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on Intersectional Identity and Representative Politics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy New Year! Our Cambridge Element is now available! In it, @hondercin.bsky.social, Jordan Randall, and I use data from the ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social to glean new insights into how the American public thinks about abortion rights. Free downloads til Jan 31st doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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In case people are interested, we wrote the first study of preferences for H1-B visas in 2012. Tech workers are uniquely against H1-B visas over economic threat, but not broadly racist. Broad cultural concerns are actually there among non-tech workers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…” www.nber.org/papers/w28494

Check out this great handbook on feminist governance! (I may be biased as my chapter is included 😉)

After some delays it’s great to see this published! We sketch out our concept of paradoxical representation by focusing on gendered racisms in the immigration politics of Sunak, Braverman, Badenoch, Patel. Thanks @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

Hot off the press today: Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars, by Meredith Maloof Loken Download for free for the next week!! 🥳🥳🥳 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Drifting apart? ⬅️➡️ A gender gap was strongest among voters at either end of the political spectrum in the latest UK General Election, new analysis co-authored by our academic @profrosiecamp.bsky.social has found 🗳️ Read more 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gender-...

Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 In this new paper, @drsarahliu.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social show that the Taiwan's COVID 19 only applies to native citizens as migrants' interests are rarely represented in legislative debates. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵

This conversation about ‘Medical misogyny’ and gynaecological pain is long overdue and an open secret among among most women I know 1/ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

✨Our article with @jekantol.bsky.social on Feminist institutional responses to antigender politics in parliamentary contexts is now published in the last issue of this year in International Feminist Journal of Politics ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two of my abstracts are accepted at #PSA25🎉 My solo paper analyses China’s media frames that construct state-wide nationalism, and my co-authored paper with @drsarahliu.bsky.social looks into the Taiwanese legislators’ framing strategies when they introduce new bills to combat sexual violence!

a Uyghur singer-songwriter committed to creating music in his mother tongue, Yashar Shohret took part in a 'white paper' gathering in Chengdu and was arrested twice since then, charged with 'extremism'. translated from an article originally published by WOMEN我们 open.substack.com/pub/hrichina...

The digital book is in open access ! I'm so looking forward to reading it. Thank you so much to all the contributors for all your hard work!

📗 At the launch of Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies" edited by @jenniferacooke.bsky.social and Line Nyhagen! Honored to have my chapter "Conducting survey research while a feminist: Taking intersectional and decolonial approaches" as a part of it. ☺️ www.routledge.com/Intersection...

My latest: Chinese exiles gathered in cities around the world to mark the second anniversary of the “White Paper Movement” in China, saying the demonstrations against the COVID-19 lockdown policies have inspired a new generation of pro-democracy Chinese activists. www.voanews.com/a/overseas-c...

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yay, my latest publication examining the editorial cartoons of PMs Julia Gillard, Margaret Thatcher, Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley has now been assigned an issue. I also get another 50 free e-prints! So click the link below if you want to read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RHCQ6...