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there is a think-piece to be written about this administration's obsession with pull ups as a marker of health

do I appreciate everything my mom did to make christmas special as a kid? sure! do I think it's good and healthy that moms are bombarded with pressure to 'make holiday magic'? no!!!

A good primer on the fragmentation of Fano militias in Ethiopia's Amhara region: www.theafricareport.com/401375/ethio...

Excellent reporting on Bogotá's "Care Blocks"

Korbel Prof. @hilarymatfess.bsky.social breaks down in @wpr.bsky.social how protectionist policies contribute to rising costs while simultaneously deepening gender inequality and restricting women’s economic opportunities.

"Regardless of whether tariffs were adopted to bolster the masculinity of displaced factory workers or in retaliation for other countries’ protectionism, their rising popularity threatens women’s position in the global economy." Great one by a great one (@hilarymatfess.bsky.social).

Everyone is worse off in a trade war. But in relative terms, the negative impacts of protectionism are unevenly distributed by gender, with men often coming out ahead, @hilarymatfess.bsky.social writes.

my latest with @wpr.bsky.social on how trade policy reflects what jobs we think are worth protecting (hint: it's men's jobs) www.worldpoliticsreview.com/protectionis...

I love how we have a POTUS whose response to "hey, any comment about your documented close relationship to a pedo?" is "shut up fatty." this is good and normal.

They're just as good at political theorizing as they are at providing healthcare advice. (Hint: not very!) (Excerpt from 'Putting Women in their Place' now available for purchase: www.amazon.com/Putting-Wome...)

Happy publication day to "Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Power, and World Politics!" The book is now available for purchase: www.amazon.com/Putting-Wome... and I am available for interviews, guest lectures, and unplatformed feminist rants!

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

on the fragility of peace in Tigray: addisstandard.com/tplf-warns-p...

but what if the soft animal of my body wants to go to sonic for the second time this week

breathtakingly out of touch story from the times today

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that's one way to pivot to the pacific.

every university administrator encouraging professors to 'integrate AI into the classroom' needs to read this and think long and hard about the implications

i'm so sorry we are living in the dumbest timeline because red hat fan boys are posting things like '16th century maritime law says that you can kill pirates, so it's totally fine that we are using drone strikes against drug smugglers' and like, guys, legality is the absolute BARE MINIMUM

good luck getting that security deposit back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

this piece was... fine? but I wish that it had dug into the ways in which 1) the performance of a very specific type of femininity the cost of doing business for these women and 2) the retrograde politics of that aesthetic.

can someone send me a copy of this, my blood pressure's been too low lately. (fr though, I would love a pdf)

I'm just a girl, standing in front of overleaf, asking it for a single usable beamer template

I’m routinely shocked by how many people don’t know this. relatedly, those people are often shocked when I say 1) motherhood has made me even more pro-choice and 2) having the right to pursue an abortion if I needed to allowed me to have a kid as a high risk pregnancy

me: "ugh I just don't feel good." my husband, with all of the caution and patience you'd expect from someone approaching a feral raccoon: "do you think it's maybe because you've had a pot and a half of coffee and a protein shake today?"

important reflection on the #WPS agenda in an era of backlash and multipolarity: www.eurasiareview.com/18102025-wom...

HAS ANYONE CHECKED THE WHEREABOUTS OF GEORGE CLOONEY AND BRAD PITT

a must read from Rebecca Turkington and Saskia Brechenmacher on the dismantling of the bipartisan WPS architecture: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

it's probably cool and fine that my husband, a former infantry officer, expressed concern about my physical safety as a professor in today's political atmosphere

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

my mantra while going through book proofs (h/t @kaitsims.bsky.social for being my emotional support colleague)

niche post but: it took me a solid 10 seconds to realize this wasn't a vintage photo of Will Reno

You can now pre-order my book, "Putting Women in their Place Gender, Power, and World Politics!" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... If you're interested in having me come to your school, bookstore, bar, classroom, cafe, gym, or whatever to talk about it please don't hesitate to drop me a line!

file under 'we are living in an era of acute backlash against women's rights:' 19thnews.org/2025/09/poll...

does anyone have an AllAfrica subscription? Trying to get access to this article: allafrica.com/stories/2004...

Me in office hours every week:

I am confident that this time is different and that *this time* listening to the same song on repeat for multiple days at a time is a sign of how *good* the song is and not how *poor* my mental health is.

Donny when firing the bls head doesn’t stop them from announcing bad jobs numbers

The economist just cited my Master's Thesis (!) on developmental authoritarianism in this piece: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Sexual violence during the #Tigray war targeted women, many of whom joined the Tigray Defense Forces to defend themselves. However, they are at risk of being left behind in the postwar transition. Story by Mehret Okubay Berehe & @hilarymatfess.bsky.social for @wpr.bsky.social. bit.ly/4g8zKPv

does anyone know where I can find geo-located data on US National Guard Deployments in Washington DC?

Tens of thousands of women took up arms for the Tigray Defense Forces during its war with the Ethiopian government. Now, they are at risk of being left behind in Tigray’s postwar transition, Mehret Berhe and @hilarymatfess.bsky.social write.

Korbel’s @hilarymatfess.bsky.social and journalist Mehret Berhe report from Ethiopia: Tigrayan women faced mass human rights violations, then fought in the civil war. Now they confront new battles in the post-war transition. Read their stories:

The women and girls who took up arms for Tigray are now at risk of being left behind in Ethiopia’s postwar transition, Mehret Berhe and @hilarymatfess.bsky.social write.

Important insight into the uneasy peace in northern Ethiopia from Korbel's @hilarymatfess.bsky.social

📚Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written a book review of "In Love and at War" by @hilarymatfess.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. 📕In Love at War: cambridge.org/core/element... 📑Book Review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

thrilled that my latest article on women fighters in Tigray (with Mehret Berhe) has been published with @wpr.bsky.social: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/ethiopia-tig...