I’ve published a bit in the last few years, but today I just submitted the first major, multi-study, all new data paper from the next phase of my research career. It’s some bold new ideas and I haven’t been this nervous going into peer review in a long time!

It only took me 2.5 hours but I figured out how to give 50 free views with this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTY45... I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪

I activated my out of office for my research leave and I could not be more excited. 😭 Don’t expect an email response for the rest of the year, but do expect updates on some major research projects! 📚

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

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

internally at Meta: -trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger -enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence -tampons removed from men's restrooms -DEI programs shuttered -Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

This is an amazing piece by @billard.bsky.social . So many important points not just for political communication but also political science and the social sciences generally.

Thanks for being a part of this project TJ! ❤️ This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.

I had so many thoughts that I could have written 10,000 words on this topic, but I tried my best to distill them down to as close to 2,000 as I could get! Please give it a read. 😃

The latest issue of @polcomm.bsky.social’s Political Communication Report, on normative dimensions of pol comm research, is out now! Excited to have a piece in the issue alongside so many brilliant scholars I adore. Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

It’s crazy to watch the plot of Wicked play out in real time while the film is actively playing in theatres. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...

The amount of fun people are having on Twitter with The Claims Adjuster versus the amount of buzzkill scolding people are doing on Bluesky is why I doubt I’ll ever spend that much time on here.

Honored to have made GCN’s list of books you should read this winter! gcn.ie/queer-books-...

We're hiring in American Politics at the junior level. Position will be affiliated with GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Applications due January 2nd. I'm on sabbatical, but I am happy to answer questions about the dept., broadly. DM me. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...

It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access >> Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🗳️ The 2024 elections saw a surge in anti-trans political ads, as the Republican Party capitalized on gender panics and cultural divides. @billard.bsky.social explores the effectiveness of these ads and the radicalization of the right in his latest analysis. Dive in here: https://bit.ly/4eBbfs0

Great to watch my student Walker West Brewer present their year-long ethnography of political socialization among LDS women, which I supervised, at #NCA24!

Popped by New Orleans to pick up an award at #NCA24! (Ignore the fact the title is wrong on the plaque.)

Incredibly cool collection about the 2024 election.

Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election! www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election! www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

Post-conference thoughts, now that I've recovered. Spending 3½ days in the company of ~800 of the smartest trans people in the world was phenomenal! Great presentations, great conversations, and I'm looking forward to working with some of the people I met. Another one, please!

So glad that #TransStudies2024 allows hybrid presentation and virtual attendance. Really doing the work of inclusion in both geographic and accessibility terms, and I can't help but notice a lot of Bluesky denizens are presenting (aka why I keep trying to love social media).

My review of TJ Billard's 'Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere' has been published in Sage Journals Sociology. Link below! @billard.bsky.social

Dr @billard.bsky.social just gave an amazing talk to my social movements class on their work on transgender activism. Please check out their book, which is so great at theorizing contemporary flows of media activism I wrote a blurb for it

REMINDER: There is ONE WEEK left to submit an abstract to the 2nd International Trans Studies Conference—a fully hybrid conference hosted at Northwestern University and online 4–7 September 2024. Abstracts are due 15 April 2024. More details at www.transstudiesconference.org/call-for-sub...

Absolutely beside myself and overjoyed to announce The 2nd International #Transgender Studies Conference! Yes the long awaited sequel to 2016’s Trans* Studies Will be in September 4-7 2024 at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA) and hybrid online www.transstudiesconference.org

Hit an important career milestone today.

finally got my copy of @billard.bsky.social's book 😍

Found your dad's memoir

Hot off the presses, my very own copy of Voices for Transgender Equality by @billard.bsky.social I’m only 3 pages in but it’s already 🔥

It’s here! My debut book, finally in my hands! 😭 Thanks so much to everyone who helped get me here—many, but certainly not all of whom are in the acknowledgements. I’ve read so many books in that familiar Oxford typesetting before. But now they’re my words. Surreal!

I can’t believe I get to say this, but: My TWENTIETH peer reviewed journal article is finally out! It’s also my first foray into history, drawing on the work I did building an historical archive of the trans movement at ⁦‪NCTE in 2018. academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

hey @billard.bsky.social check it out

It’s my birthday AND my book ships out to preorders today! If you missed out on placing a preorder but want to be sure to get it on the official publication date, you can get your copy at voicesfortransequality.com. Consider it a birthday present to me!

Only TWENTY DAYS until my new book, Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere, hits shelves! 🥳 I couldn't be more excited for it to finally be out in the world. To preorder or schedule a book event, visit voicesfortransequality.com

Hi everyone! This is the official Bluesky Account of APSA and ICA's Political Communication Divisions! Follow us for: Conference infos, CfPs, PolComm Publication Friday, research resources, networking opportunities, etc. Tag us for boosts. #polcomm poli_com polcom

Only TWENTY DAYS until my new book, Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere, hits shelves! 🥳 I couldn't be more excited for it to finally be out in the world. To preorder or schedule a book event, visit voicesfortransequality.com

anyway go preorder @billard.bsky.social's book: https://www.voicesfortransequality.com

I can’t believe I finally get to say this, but my book is officially available for preorder now! I’m so immensely proud of this book and can’t wait for people to engage with it out in the real world. If you want to support me, you can preorder at www.voicesfortransequality.com!

You know Caroline Polachek is a good friend because she let Charli XCX absolutely BODY the remix her own song.

This piece, co authored with @billard.bsky.social and @erique.bsky.social in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies lays out our vision of trans studies that bridges humanistic & scientific inquiry to understand trans lives as they are led https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/1/1-2/1/

My reality TV hit take: if the prize money for a competition isn’t enough for a down payment on a house in a midwestern city, it’s not a real prize.

Serious question: what is going to happen to journalism now that Twitter is dying and its audience is fragmenting across mastodon, bluesky, threads, spill, and I’m sure countless more contenders to come?

Super excited my new article on the work I did constructing the Trans Equality Archive at the National Center for Transgender Equality during my fieldwork in 2018 is out! Hopefully lots of lessons for other scholars of trans history. 😊 https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/1-2/7/

🚨This is not a drill!🚨 After years in the making, my paper on GI is finally out in MIND, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in the world, of all places. ⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵