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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They)

@kaitlindktphd.bsky.social
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Bikes, Cats, Buses, and sometimes Political Science (feminist movements, cities, and public policy).

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Sabine Volk @sabinedvolk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
it’s so anti learning. I hate it.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
They’re also *not wrong* we have a political economy where young people have very little space to be less than perfect. The job market is collapsing for them - I’ve recently found myself being a sympathetic ear for freaked undergrads who are not my students bc I do small talk when I travel.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Having had to talk down multiple freshman from a ledge when they made the first B of their life on the first assignment in my classes when teaching at an elite liberal arts school, a lot of these young adults have been socialized that anything less than an A+ is failure.
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible. The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“The absurdity of adults dancing in inflatable costumes during anti-ICE demonstrations is meant to display community joy, protesters say, and helps to dispel the Trump administration’s narrative that Portland is a crime-ridden “war zone,” a characterization local and state leaders say is false.”
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Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'
Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.
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Verena Reidinger @reidingerve.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/10/2025
Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬
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Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services
Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The issue with gifted classes isn't the content, its that testing INTO gifted classes is a structure based in racism and classism. Many students who would benefit from these classes never get the chance, that's why Mamdani wants to shift away from this program.
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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#psjminfo
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers ⤵️ 🌈 Gender, Sexuality, and Political Careers 🪑 @lenastephan.bsky.social @robindevroe.bsky.social, Andrea Aldrich, William Daniel (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) Ragnhild Louise Muriaas (@unibergen.bsky.social) ⌛👇 7 Nov
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Gender, Sexuality, and Political Careers
European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15 – 17 June 2026
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/09/2025
Fully 80% of the CDC's budget goes out to state and local health departments. Slashing the CDC's budget is going to be felt by "every person in every community across this country, whether they realize it or not.” my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s CDC cuts could threaten chronic illness and national security, experts warn
Public health leaders worry proposed 53% CDC slash would weaken disease prevention and pose a national security risk
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I find this weird bc isn’t vehicular cycling riding defensively? Isn’t taking the lane riding defensively? Isn’t looking both ways before crossing the street walking defensivel? wtf is this.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Meanwhile the right is definitely polarizing safe streets and transit.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 24/09/2025
Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: melodyschreiber@pm.me
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2025
see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries." gifting this piece from Roxane Gay - www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Love to give an impromptu lecture on previous quorum busting efforts by TX dems to prevent gerrymandering to my friends because it’s very important to me that everyone knows about the killer Ds and the Texas 11.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2025
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
To be honest I don't think the solutions to AI in education are hard to imagine they are just hard to fund. You need more in class time and smaller classes where faculty can engage more with students in the process of learning. This all costs money though as you have to grow more faculty.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth" www.vox.com/policy/46177...
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The big myth about why Black kids can’t get ahead
How ignoring two-parent families has warped the narrative.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2025
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Today is my birthday. 35 years ago my mom had more access to abortion than women do today in the state of Texas. I‘m so mad. Wendy Davis did not bust her ass on the floor of the TX statehouse for appeasing pundit dudes to just throw away the legacy of Dems fighting for women in red states.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
You know what would be a better strategy than running pro-life Dems in red states where pro-choice referendums passed. Figuring out who is voting republican & for pro-choice referendums to figure out how we can win them to the Dems. But no it’s easier to just give up on women’s autonomy 🙃.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Really wondering what will happen in ~20 years when the young trad wives discover Betty Friedan.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025
Absolute cowards. They are still bound by Massachusetts State Law. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Athletics Removes Protections for Transgender Students From Handbook | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Athletics removed policies protecting transgender athletes from this year’s Student Athlete Handbook following a series of orders by the Trump administration and the University’s own scouring ...
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
One of the details in this story is that schools without enough girls to fill a team are playing co-ed instead. And obviously, the TERFs aren’t up in arms about girls playing with boys. Because it was about trans exclusion the entire time.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2025
Harvard is no longer committing to funding student affinity groups after closing the office space for the office of LGBTQ life and the Women's Center. This university is run by craven cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard College To Remove Designated Spaces for Women’s Center, Office for BGLTQ Student Life | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard College will close the designated spaces that previously housed the Women’s Center and the Office for BGLTQ Student Life, following a July decision to shutter those offices — along with one fo...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Single member legislative districts are just such a bad system, especially when parties are polarized (i.e., in any modern political system) Forthcoming APSR shows firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered into/out of districts for partisan gain ungated SSRN version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Absolutely every person who has ever annoyingly preached about weightlifting was right, if I could go back in time to when I was 22 and taken it up after getting my first pitch that I should really do it from a fellow student in undergrad research methods.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I still feel like I've lost my mind when I think about how the genocide was discussed in 2023/early 2024 bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Gonna start using a new economic metric: how many tattoo artists are posting about having open time vs have waitlists.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/08/2025
Really good explainer in Slate by poli sci researcher Zein Murib on how the early LGB movement's split between sex/or and gender identity helped isolate what emerged as transgender, laying important groundwork for the crusade of trans erasure we're witnessing now. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Every time I see Butlerian Jihad I think, for a second, it refers to Judith Butler
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Look dude, this is a thread on a tweet about how driver impatience leads to violence. This is why I made an analogy to street level gender based violence - another area where pissing off the wrong dude can lead to violence. You made it about gender bc you don’t believe these are analogous 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’ve lived places where having a female body not wearing shorts and a tank top was in fact a very savvy strategy to avoid getting followed by strange men. In which case it was very much “like a flag” to cover up. I get that you are a man and don’t understand what women are taught + do to stay safe.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I think you need to reread what a wrote and think about the comparison I was making bc it was intentional. I know about pool noodles, and flags. I am not saying they are not useful tools, I am making a point about who is expected to change behavior and who is not.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I get that this is in good faith. But no I am not interested in solutions that are the equivalent of don’t wear a crop top if you don’t want to experience street harassment. I know all about flags & pool noodles the same way I know all about covering up and self defense as a person afab.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We use the same name and have developed haters.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Got close passed by a car that I then kept passing that car over and over at the next 4 lights on the **8 min** ride I did back from grabbing lunch. It’s the endangerment for literally nothing that hits me. Like my dude I am also going way slower than I’d like bc there’s traffic just chill.
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Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They) @kaitlindktphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This sounds so familiar as someone who used to commute over that bridge twice a day. It’s gross that there aren’t better connections btw emerald necklace & Charles River paths. We all should not have to go all the way downtown to get btw Boston & Cambridge safely, and yet.
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