Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Florida adds restrictive prison policy on trans health care Transgender women were allowed to keep bras if their breasts were deemed big enough.

Florida is effectively forcefully detransitioning all incarcerated trans people. They submitted dozens of trans women to unnecessary and humiliating breast exams and will be replacing HRT with psychotherapy (despite many likely already doing so).

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🚨 Does elite ideological polarization lead to mass ideological polarization?

My latest article in European Journal of Political Research provides **limited** evidence that it is the case.

Let's break it down. 🧵

Florida adds restrictive prison policy on trans health care Transgender women were allowed to keep bras if their breasts were deemed big enough.

Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams.

Stop using these apps entirely, people. Get a notebook and a pen and go analog. I'm serious

*recruit*. not DEI. recruit.

The Cold Social Media Reaction To The UnitedHealthcare CEO's Killing Was Not Hard To Predict You don’t have to feel good about these reactions to a human tragedy to understand why anybody associated with the insurance industry would inspire such hostility.

I talked with @citizencohn.bsky.social for this piece on the UnitedHealthcare events and Americans’ anger toward private health insurers, in light of the findings from my research on coverage denials and administrative burden. www.huffpost.com/entry/insura...

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Excited to share that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

It examines voter responses to mainstream party legitimization of (former) pariah parties.

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Mediated Identities | 6 | A Qualitative Exploration of How Adolescents Gender is socially constructed, including through engagement with media. Researchers used virtual in-depth interviews with 17 young people (15–23 years old, M =

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How Adolescents from Six Countries Make Sense of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Media

Dehumanization is a process. This reminds me of Arendt's concept of superfluous wealth using superfluous people as a means of fueling endless expansion. Homeless people are inherently rightless and considered both superfluous and outside of society.

“They Think Transgender is Like Something on the Side:” Perceptions of Transgender Women of Color of Cisgender Members of the LGBTQIA+ “Community” Due to multiple minority statuses, transgender women of color are exposed to minority stress through distal (external) stressors from society causing proximal (internal) stress, leading to potentia...

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Demonstrates direct mental and physical health risks for transgender women of color associated with discrimination and exclusion by members of the cisgender LGBTQIA+ “community.”

Just published on APSR First View: "Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians" by Sandra Håkansson and Nazita Lajevardi. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Incredible - almost performance art

Talking with Tom, Dick or Harry about Misogyny and Violence in Global Politics - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) As feminists working at the intersection of critical political economy and international security, we’ve long been frustrated by the mainstream’s recognition that gender plays some role in the rise of...

Why should political economists care about misogyny and violent extremism?

“Talking with Tom, Dick or Harry about Misogyny and Violence in Global Politics”.

Part of the @ppesydney.bsky.social 10th anniversary series

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South Korea appears to have stood the test of its democracy tonight. But it’s also important to remember that this attack was quite sudden and big, which makes it easier to notice and react to, while many other threats to democracy we have seen in other places have happened gradually…

Happy about what is (conditionally) coming with my dear friend @blancobosco.bsky.social. 🥰

In this new paper for @poqjournal.bsky.social we show that people aren't that 'sexually modern' in sexually modern contexts as many may think.

Stay tuned for the full story!

Are you really in grad school if your professor doesn’t make up assignments on the fly with one week of class left in the semester

Oh… gag it tbh u slayed me

We should attack transphobia head-on simply because it is a disgusting ideology, but if that's not enough for you, it's a system of control that stems from a patriarchal assumption about what a woman "should" be whose natural end is rigid gender roles upheld by state violence. Which seems bad!

Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...

A classic tactic of authoritarian intimidation. Made even worse by the second-order effects it will have on other federal employees, who will quit or avoid controversy to avoid being targeted. edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Watching the dog show and realizing that a chihuahua would fix me

I like Bluesky much more than the evil ellen mollusk app but I fear the digital footprint feels as though it carries more consequence here…

Born to watch real housewives, forced to watch the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade

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