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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Leadership of the CT university/community college system has been scandal prone and ineffectual for the decade I’ve taught in the system. This moment cries out for profound and lasting change.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Zulma Toro was also brought in as a shadow president at WCSU. She must resign.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

HUGE thank you to @jnovkov.bsky.social, @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social, @chelseaebin.bsky.social, and Gwen Alphonso for the conversation about my new book in Boston for APSA

Jenn M. Jackson, Gwen Alphonso, Howell Williams, Julie Novkov, and Chelsea Ebin at a panel for Williams’s Fatherhood, Race, and the American State

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Heading to @apsa.bsky.social this week? Be sure to check out these fantastic Politics and History panels. 🧵 with a chronological list of all the section panels below. Politics and History panels cover every subfield and we hope to see many of you in the audience at the conference!

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@hhowell.bsky.social’s book arrived today! I am SO excited this brilliant work is out in the world for everyone to read. Such a fantastic contribution to the APD field and a must read for anyone thinking about how white male supremacism has been institutionalized through the regulation of fatherhood

A pasty hand holding a beautifully designed book with a yellow cover featuring a “classic” 1950s era white family with colored circles blotting out the faces of the mother, daughter, and son. The book is titled Fatherhood, Race, and The American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties and it is authored by the H. Howell Williams.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Poli sci folks (and everyone): The latest issue of Polity @northeasternpsa.bsky.social on visuality of reproduction post-Dobbs is one of the most impressive academic journal issues I’ve ever seen. Well done to the entire editorial team.

Cover of Polity v58 n3 featuring work by Barbara Kruger that says “your body is a battleground”

Painting by Katherine Hattam called “The Lore of Mother” featuring a face on a blue background

Poster from Women’s Health Action and Mobilization featuring a broken coat hanger and blood with the headline “one woman dies every 3 minutes worldwide from a botched illegal abortion”

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Every trillionaire is 1,000 policy failures

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My book Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties will be released with Penn Press on August 25. www.pennpress.org/978151282984...

Cover of Howell Williams's "Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties." The cover features a retro picture of a White heterosexual family with the faces of the mother and two children obscured so that only the father is visible.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My book Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties will be released with Penn Press on August 25. www.pennpress.org/978151282984...

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Semerwater in the Yorkshire Dales June 2026

Semerwater in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in June 2026

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sign from the ICE Out of Connecticut action in downtown Hartford right now: “ICE TOOK 1100+ PPL FROM CT SINCE JAN 2025”

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

btw the “significant financial pressure” is coming from the dem-dominated state legislature and Gov Lamont Hard to imagine a “blue” state working harder to decimate public higher ed than CT

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The issue is intentionally genealogical and critical in its approach to identities. Articles will explore how proximity, connection, and belonging operate as sites of both care and coercion. Full call for papers: www.mdpi.com/journal/gene... Send us your work!

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Gwen and I are political scientists writing about family in American political development. This special issue will theorize links between family and the state, thinking expansively about family and kinship sites of care and control over time.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm guest editing (w. Gwen Alphonso) an issue for Genealogy titled "Kinship, Care, and Coercion: Historical Narratives of Family and Power in U.S. and Global Contexts" Feat. interdisciplinary assessments of family, care, and kinship as sites of control and/or support

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

In my book (out Aug!) I call cultural panics about absent fatherhood “patriarchal anxieties.” Patriarchal anxieties being so prevalent on screen this year is yet another data point that we are living through a moment of profound political crisis.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

New Substack post: this year’s Oscar nominees are about either absent fathers, and democratic backsliding. So I thought: why not do the annual Oscars roundup about the two themes? This is part two, about the "crisis of fathers". someunpleasant.substack.com/p/fatherless...

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Fatherless Behavior

It's every man for himself where I come from. That's just how I grew up.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

renewing my passport...state dept says this is an example of an unacceptably digitally altered image. laying off the colloidal silver for a while just to be safe. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Very sad to hear of major restructuring (decimation) taking place at my alma mater NSSR. They’ve given faculty 12 days to decide whether to uproot their lives and voluntarily leave the university (before, presumably, they are pushed out)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Randomly caught 60 Minutes tonight, first watch post-Weiss appointment at CBS… Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code

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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Modernist beauties in Stamford CT designed by architect Victor H. Bisharat

Round modernist office building in Stamford CT

Side view of round modernist office building in Stamford

Interior of modernist office building featuring skylight

Office building in front of pool in Stamford CT

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/09/2025

During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word. Answers: Roberts: Chief Thomas: Laugh Alito: Grandfather Sotomayor: Lively Kagan: Analytical Gorsuch: Out West Kavanaugh: Sports Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 24/08/2025

Okay, for those of you who can't do the scavenger hunt, I'm gonna take you with me via video lol

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Mamdani scavenger hunt is thawing—just slightly—my perennially cold political heart. Community building is hopeful work.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m looking for advice on good indexers for my book. Has anyone worked with someone recently they would recommend? Book is on fatherhood and race in 20th century APD, so qual poli sci/history pros especially helpful.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My forthcoming book on fatherhood politics discusses this postcard to highlight how suffrage provoked crisis in patriarchal norms Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/07/2025

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There are 6 days left to nominate someone for the Ann Snitow Prize, $12,000 honoring an outstanding #feminist, who combines intellectual or artistic work with creative, generative, effective social justice activism. Find out more: annsnitowprize.com/nominations

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Nominations - The Ann Snitow Prize

Calendar and Requirements Nominations for the 2025 Prize will open on May 12, 2025 and will close July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Nominations are submitted via email and should include the following:• ...

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The problem with “are men/boys ok?” discourse is it only feeds into reactionary politics like this

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💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025

If you care about the well being of Black people, here is a color coded map showing you where we are concentrated in this country before you drop your ignorant “red state” take.

Color coded map that shows the %age of Black people in the US by state using variations of green.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 02/07/2025

If this were a repeated line from congressional Democrats, there would be countless think pieces about why such rhetoric is alienating young men from the party.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Self Esteem’s Glastonbury set…remarkable!

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Said goodbye to this sweet 17-year-old today. Rest well, Lucy 💕

Lucy the dog with her favorite stuffed bear

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Yes! And I’ll go one further: can we not use “performative” when we mean “performance”? Read your Butler!

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This weakens the intervention. Effectively indistinguishable from a response to the question “Mr Chief Justice, who do you think will win the Super Bowl?”

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends. The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war. @jessicacalarco.bsky.social

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A neighbor shared this pic of a red-tailed hawk in Peekskill this afternoon

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