Laurie Essig
@laurieessig.bsky.social
Gender studies prof; cranky feminist; got a podcast about this global shitstorm of an anti-gender movement
Check out Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music
Check out Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music
You wanna know what’s going on but not listen to news blah blah blah?Check out our interview with Carol Anderson on white rage and trumpism. open.spotify.com/episode/3q0g...
We Talk to Really Smart People: Carol Anderson
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
You wanna know what’s going on but not listen to news blah blah blah?Check out our interview with Carol Anderson on white rage and trumpism. open.spotify.com/episode/3q0g...
Tech oligarchs want you to have more babies. Listen and find out why. open.spotify.com/episode/3ZW2...
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tech oligarchs want you to have more babies. Listen and find out why. open.spotify.com/episode/3ZW2...
My latest rant on the attack on gender studies. Read it and then help organize to save the university from fascist takeover.
“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
October 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My latest rant on the attack on gender studies. Read it and then help organize to save the university from fascist takeover.
Hey we need you to keep protesting. 3.5% of us can take this regime down. Have a listen open.spotify.com/episode/0vCr...
Bonus: The Power of the Small Minority
Feminism, Fascism, and the Future · Episode
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July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hey we need you to keep protesting. 3.5% of us can take this regime down. Have a listen open.spotify.com/episode/0vCr...
Here is our two part episode on how they come for the professors for any criticism of Israeli policy. And nothing protects them - not academic freedom or tenure or being Jewish themselves. Listen to Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music and like, subscribe, and share.
July 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here is our two part episode on how they come for the professors for any criticism of Israeli policy. And nothing protects them - not academic freedom or tenure or being Jewish themselves. Listen to Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music and like, subscribe, and share.
Gender studies is dangerous to authoritarians. That’s why they always come for it. msmagazine.com/2025/06/26/g...
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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June 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Gender studies is dangerous to authoritarians. That’s why they always come for it. msmagazine.com/2025/06/26/g...
Actually it sounds like Handmaids Tale. Under his eye.
Speaking at the Pentagon just now, Pete Hegseth said, “We give glory to God for his providence.” Sounds like typical rhetoric from Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Actually it sounds like Handmaids Tale. Under his eye.
Wanna know how to fight back? Have a future you’re fighting for- a conversation with Suzanne Cope about her new book open.spotify.com/episode/7Hge...
Bonus: Women Who Fight Fascists
Feminism, Fascism, and the Future · Episode
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May 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wanna know how to fight back? Have a future you’re fighting for- a conversation with Suzanne Cope about her new book open.spotify.com/episode/7Hge...
We got some great new episodes of Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music.
May 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We got some great new episodes of Feminism, Fascism & the Future on Spotify or Apple Music.
This could be a sign of progress! Since we dont have enough domestic racists we now have to import them www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White South Africans Given Refugee Status Arrive in the United States
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This could be a sign of progress! Since we dont have enough domestic racists we now have to import them www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
I hope the new Pope lives a long time. Because I am so tired of Pope “news”- and of course the MSM doesn’t actually report about the Catholic Church creating the whole anti-gender movement that is now destroying much of the world including the US. It’s just did he wear a red or a white gown.
May 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I hope the new Pope lives a long time. Because I am so tired of Pope “news”- and of course the MSM doesn’t actually report about the Catholic Church creating the whole anti-gender movement that is now destroying much of the world including the US. It’s just did he wear a red or a white gown.
Loved doing this. Hate fascism.
My latest - w/ things we all need to know about gender & fascism - for @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2025/04/22/f.... @roxyszal.bsky.social @laurieessig.bsky.social @uvmvermont.bsky.social
'Feminism, Fascism and the Future': Sociologist Laurie Essig on Dissolving Democracies in Russia and the U.S.
Sociologist and author Laurie Essig has decades of experience studying and visiting Russia (and before that, the Soviet Union). Her first book, Queer in Russia, chronicles and analyzes the time betwee...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Loved doing this. Hate fascism.
Reposted by Laurie Essig
Shout outs (shouts out?) here to @laurieessig.bsky.social @kimlanelaw.bsky.social & everything we need to know about feminism , fascism& the related open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...
History Teaches . . . Why the 2024 Elections Turned Out As They Did
Historians of the United States Do Our Jobs, Despite . . . All of It
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April 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shout outs (shouts out?) here to @laurieessig.bsky.social @kimlanelaw.bsky.social & everything we need to know about feminism , fascism& the related open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...
Incredibly great convo with the terribly smart @vtfeminist.bsky.social
I interviewed Middlebury College’s @laurieessig.bsky.social yesterday & everyone needs to listen to her podcast Feminism Fascism & the Future. The future is now. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
Feminism, Fascism, and the Future – A Feminist Podcast
sites.middlebury.edu
March 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Incredibly great convo with the terribly smart @vtfeminist.bsky.social
Reposted by Laurie Essig
I interviewed Middlebury College’s @laurieessig.bsky.social yesterday & everyone needs to listen to her podcast Feminism Fascism & the Future. The future is now. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
Feminism, Fascism, and the Future – A Feminist Podcast
sites.middlebury.edu
March 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I interviewed Middlebury College’s @laurieessig.bsky.social yesterday & everyone needs to listen to her podcast Feminism Fascism & the Future. The future is now. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...
This is so obvious but I fear the people who run our universities will capitulate to fascism rather than risk their comfort. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is so obvious but I fear the people who run our universities will capitulate to fascism rather than risk their comfort. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Now we ate importing white nationalists www.bbc.com/news/article...
US-South Africa relations: Almost 70,000 South Africans interested in US asylum
This follows President Donald Trump's February executive order offering Afrikaners refugee status.
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March 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Now we ate importing white nationalists www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why does the NYT say theeat of a Constitutional crisis instead of strongman dictator destroys democracy ?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-deportations-constitutional-crisis-impeachment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis
Legal scholars say that the nation has reached a tipping point and that the right question is not whether there is a crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Why does the NYT say theeat of a Constitutional crisis instead of strongman dictator destroys democracy ?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-deportations-constitutional-crisis-impeachment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
This s recognized stsge of fascism when the great leader stops promising a better future and calls for sacrifice. next stage will be military aggression and more sacrifice www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
Trump Promised Americans Booming Wealth. Now He’s Changing His Tune.
President Trump’s sweeping promises are running headlong into the reality of governing.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This s recognized stsge of fascism when the great leader stops promising a better future and calls for sacrifice. next stage will be military aggression and more sacrifice www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
I cant believe our choice is this its like plate of human shit and glass or plate of human shit and glass on fire www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
The Populist vs. the Billionaire: Bannon, Musk and the Battle Within MAGA
President Trump has made clear he wants to keep both men and their allies within his movement, but the tensions are growing.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I cant believe our choice is this its like plate of human shit and glass or plate of human shit and glass on fire www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
Me talking about patriarchy in Marie Claire www.marieclaire.com/career-advic...
Meet the Millennial Women Buying Their Own Engagement Rings
There's nothing wrong with it. So why does it feel so complicated?
www.marieclaire.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Me talking about patriarchy in Marie Claire www.marieclaire.com/career-advic...
Fascist leaders eventually ask the popularion to sacrifice www.newsweek.com/americans-go...
Americans "going to have to suffer," Trump economist warns
An economist and leading Republican adviser has blamed poor economic projections on Joe Biden's administration.
www.newsweek.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Fascist leaders eventually ask the popularion to sacrifice www.newsweek.com/americans-go...
Is anyone gonna tell him about his makeup?
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Is anyone gonna tell him about his makeup?