To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities.
Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️
Is a technology that you use contributing to fascism? What are the characteristics of technofascism?
Find out by taking the Technofascist Technology Quiz - medium.com/data-feminis...
(I'd love to hear which tech you evaluate and how it scores)
With the SAVE act, Republicans want to make it more difficult for married women who have changed their name to vote—and that is more likely to be Republican women. Seems counterintuitive but not if the long term goal is repealing the 19th A. By Pamela Herd. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance (2026, Volume 14)
Edited by Paola Sartoretto and Sandra Jeppesen
Complete issue: doi.org/10.17645/mac...
Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See by @ale_jungs medium.com/data-feminis...
New & necessary thinking from @kanarinka.bsky.social trying to explain technofascism to those involved in its systems: medium.com/data-feminis... "the collusion of large technology firms, right-wing billionaires, and tech culture with authoritarian and anti-democratic political agendas "
The New York Times wants to be able to lie about trans people and not face any pushback.
They will be remembered for what they have done and no amount of bullshit will wipe the blood from their hands.
SO excited for this one from @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social.
They've already hit their funding goal and are working toward the stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...
A América Latina segue reafirmando sua existência, memória e organização coletiva.
Após a invasão dos EUA a Venezuela, mulheres da rede Amassuru se reuniram para escutar, elaborar coletivamente e registrar o que atravessa a região.
catarinas.info/o-que-esta-e...
thank you!
What an artful, celebratory, life-affirming fuck you to Trump, white nationalism, and imperialism
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "The structure of thought of today’s backlash—its unremitting core—is a supremacist worldview based in biological determinism, social dominance hierarchy, and the free exercise of legitimized violence."
The connections between LLMs and fascist orality are intriguing - maybe there’s something comforting about both in the sense that LLMs are obsequious statistical speech and fascist leaders reduce history/complexity to a single supremacist story
Amazing - thanks for these references!!
Just requested that our library purchase it!
That is super helpful suggestion...just copied it into my notes document...
This looks great - definitely checking it out!!!
Yes - as I’m not a political scientist I’ve been trying to reflect on and disentangle authoritarianism and fascism in relation to this present moment.
Yes I think the Möllers piece makes a really compelling argument but I haven’t read the Akbari piece so I’ll definitely check that out.
This is one of the key things I've been thinking about - what's new or different versus what is the same but intensified with technology and/or tech ideologies.
What do you think? Drop me a line with comments, readings and resources I should be reviewing as this moves forward.
Some of those are still with us: e.g. eugenics, the gender binary, scientism, and the cult of the male genius. Today’s technofascism is acute because it has been exacerbated by extreme wealth inequality, financialization, environmental destruction and billionaire delusion." </end definition>
Such regimes regularly used their most advanced technologies to exploit nature, steal land, subjugate women, discipline gender-nonconforming people, and dehumanize racialized populations. Over history, various ideologies emerged to justify such adventures in resource-hoarding.
Technofascism did not begin in 2025. Rather paradoxically, it has its roots in Western liberal democracy: colonial and imperialist systems that were always predicated on human rights for some and conquest and extraction for others.
and the elevation of misogyny, transphobia, hate speech and mob violence on out-of-control social media platforms.
