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Mary Reynolds

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I think there's a gender element in this murder, too. In new vid, we see victim try to shield a much smaller woman a male ICE goon has violently knocked down. Goon enraged, focuses his attack on man shielding woman. As if enraged for showing up his masculinity, for revealing his hysteria.
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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
For all the hand-wringing over Democrats losing "the working class," union members actually shifted toward Harris in 2024. And beyond voting, unions are the one institution equipped to channel our collective will to resist authoritarianism into collective action to stop it.
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Labor Day Resistance and Refusal
WER Live with Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 30/08/2025
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is utterly crucial. The key to Trump's arrogation of power these past few months has been his capturing of the future. He's trying to create an impression that his rule is forever. Every capitulation helps him do that. Reopening the future is an essential precondition for fighting Trumpism.
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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm certain this is a mistake but my book is somehow on Barnes & Noble's list of "Most Anticipated Nonfiction of 2025" (link below). BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City is out Aug 19th from @wwnorton.bsky.social
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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"At Harvard, for instance, while the university’s leadership has earned well-deserved plaudits for its legal challenges to the most egregious of Trump’s punitive measures, it was not, in fact, the administrators who took that bold step first. It was the faculty." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o...
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Harvard faculty won’t cave to Trump demands - The Boston Globe
Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It's hard to believe this documentary on the take-over of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords showed up on the @nytimes.com site. But watch it, if you haven't seen it. It's the history of anyone who has ever cared about health care for all. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Takeover
On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Among their demands? Accessible, quality health care for all.
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Laurie Essig @laurieessig.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Gender studies is dangerous to authoritarians. That’s why they always come for it. msmagazine.com/2025/06/26/g...
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Why Authoritarians Always Come for Gender Studies First
We all know that Trump and the Republican Party are coming for higher education. But, what many don’t know is that in this century, authoritarians come for gender studies first. I would be nearly hope...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Just spitballing. Cause it's not like there's an extraordinarily detailed authoritarian playbook that every would be dictator has employed and we could absolutely predict every one of these moves. And also clear, established, patterns to what it requires to halt this assault.
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Join us for a webinar on TUESDAY, JUNE 3rd at 11 AM EST, exploring how the MAGA movement is using gender to promote authoritarianism. Hear from experts Annie Wilkinson, ‪@ch4ncie44.bsky.social, @maryrreynolds.bsky.social, and Nourbese Flint, moderated by Kitana Ananda: bit.ly/100dayswebinarpart2
The First 100 Days of Authoritarian Gains

Part 2
How MAGA Weaponizes Gender to Entrench Authoritarianism
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 
11:00 am-12:30 PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/100dayswebinarpart2
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What does gender have to do with authoritarianism: Everything. Bouie on the Trumpist vision of the future that rejects “‘feminized’ service-sector capitalism” and a concern with climate change that “seems feminine.” Instead, let's reject rigid gender hierarchies. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Terrific analysis and advice. "This is not just an academic question: it is a political opportunity. Centre-left parties have followed the male gaze into chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter (narrowly defined as white men with rightwing sociocultural views)."
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Why do authoritarians attack higher ed? @lpeproject.bsky.social "Our commitment to open inquiry over propaganda, to persuasion over coercion, to democracy over dictatorship provides a check on authoritarian rule." lpeproject.org/blog/eight-l...
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Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education
Recent executive orders have targeted federal grant funding, trans students, non-citizen students, DEI efforts, and pro-Palestinian activism. Eight legal experts explain what these orders purport to…
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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union. But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
May 6, 1933: Nazis destroyed Berlin's Institute for Sexual Research, which offered sex education classes, housed a 20,000 book library, and provided meeting spaces for feminist activists. Founder Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld: "Love is as varied as people are." www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Authoritarian: taking control of all higher education. Anti-authoritarian: Public and private Universities fighting back together. "The entire higher ed sector must reject this crude authoritarianism with one voice." @kirstenweld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Trump administration calls for a freeze on all new grants to Harvard
Education Secretary Linda McMahon posted a harshly worded letter to Harvard on Monday saying the school must meet several criteria to receive new grants.
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Great to see Texas voters rejecting the far-right policymakers "with a blueprint for consolidating power under the guise of protecting women and children," as @ch4ncie44.bsky.social puts it in their "From Courts to Clinics" article in @praeyesright.bsky.social's Public Eye magazine.
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Mary Reynolds @maryrreynolds.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
53% disapprove of diversity attacks. "This might be because most Americans perceive something that these prominent commentators do not, that the administration’s attack on D.E.I. is less about fairness than it is recreating systems of domination and subordination." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s New Lows Are Basically Predictable (Gift Article)
Why are plenty of people still surprised?
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trans healthcare bans are "central to the economic, racial, and gender hierarchies that white nationalism seeks to restore—structuring who counts as economically productive, socially legitimate, and worthy of public investment." @nbenas.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/trans-h...
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Trans Healthcare Bans in a White Nationalist Political Economy
The persecution of transgender people, though often treated as a niche concern, is central to today’s political and economic realignments. These attacks are not ancillary but entangled with broader…
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Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
LPE: "How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State" lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
From screencap of linked article: "Trans people — however small in numbers and insignificant to the broader society — are thus situated at the heart of a three-pronged strategy for the creation of an anti-social authoritarian state. In this way, trans people have much in common with immigrants, Palestine activists, and the wide swath of underserved minorities targeted under the moniker of 'DEI.'"
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PRA’s @ch4ncie44.bsky.social analyzes how Texas AG Ken Paxton’s use of state power to target abortion and LGBTQ+ rights serves as a blueprint for far-right policymakers to consolidate power under the guise of protecting women and children. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2025/04/02/c....
The Public Eye Winter/Spring 2025
From Courts to Clinics
A Framework for Analysis and Action
By Chancie CallihamTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton  via Gage Skidmore/Wikicommons
Gender Panic as a Tool of Authoritarian Control
Trump’s recent executive order mandates the recognition of women as “biologically female” and men as “biologically male.” This ideology fosters a climate of moral panic and justifies policies that suppress bodily autonomy and reinforce male dominance, portraying such measures as necessary to protect families, women, and children from perceived cultural decline.Austin Capitol Building via  Pgiam/ Canva
Court Capture and the Rise of Authoritarianism
This moral panic about gender has laid the groundwork for laws and policies targeting reproductive and transgender rights, with Leonard Leo, a key figure in reshaping the judiciary, playing a pivotal role. Leo’s network aligns federal and state strategies, influencing cultural and legal norms to advance Christian nationalist ideology.Image of a girl holding a LGBT pride flag during Republic of Texas rally in Austin via  Lakshmatai/WIkicommons
Resistance and What Comes Next
Combatting the authoritarian Right’s anti-gender attacks on women and queer and trans people requires political education to counter the disinformation that fuels them, as well as intersectional resistance. Organizations like Lilith Fund and Equality Texas point to one way forward. By challenging restrictive laws and providing vital support to vulnerable communities, they show how grassroots activism can resist far-right agendas.
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Mary Reynolds @maryrreynolds.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Check out the Public Eye's full Winter/Spring 2025 issue, which illustrates the gender and authoritarianism throughlines in the attacks on public education, bodily autonomy, reproductive justice and more. And follow the Gender and Authoritarianism Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We didn’t choose the relationship of enmity, but we can choose it and... we must. Kitana Ananda of Public Eye magazine (from Political Research Associates) asked me to write up a short piece on enemy feminisms and here it is. Thanks to @praeyesright.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2025/03/28/f...
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Feminists Against Women
In a world of competing feminisms, from anti-trans feminists to liberal feminists, Sophie Lewis makes the case for taking feminism seriously in all its forms in order to make real progress toward a mu...
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Mary Reynolds @maryrreynolds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yes on Orbán's model, but the precedents for Trump's policies are also found in U.S. state legislatures' assaults on public education over the past decade. Look to West Virgina and Kentucky to see the consequences of white male minority rule. politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...
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Canaries in the Classroom
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national s...
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Mary Reynolds @maryrreynolds.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New work from the Gender & Authoritarian Research Collective @gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social
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