Mary Reynolds
@maryrreynolds.bsky.social
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This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
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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.
And beyond voting, unions are the one institution equipped to channel our collective will to resist authoritarianism into collective action to stop it.
Labor Day Resistance and Refusal
WER Live with Anat Shenker-Osorio
www.weekendreading.net
August 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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.
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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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.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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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.
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.
One extraordinary thing about Pritzker's speech: saying this won't last forever and justice will eventually find the perpetrators.
Shouldn't have stood out so much. But did, because way too many US elites in politics, media, business, etc. are acting like it's popular and permanent. It's neither.
Shouldn't have stood out so much. But did, because way too many US elites in politics, media, business, etc. are acting like it's popular and permanent. It's neither.
August 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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.
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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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
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City is out Aug 19th from
@wwnorton.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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
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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"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...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o...
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.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"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...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o...
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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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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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...
msmagazine.com
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...
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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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
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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
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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...
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...
Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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...
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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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)."
"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)."
From Bluesky to the Guardian!
In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.
In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.
The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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)."
"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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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...
@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...
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…
lpeproject.org
May 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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...
@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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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.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰
May 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
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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-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
May 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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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...
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...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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...
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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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.
puts it in their "From Courts to Clinics" article in @praeyesright.bsky.social's Public Eye magazine.
In one of Texas' larger districts, the school board in 2023 restricted the rights of trans students on a 4-3 vote, prompting a federal investigation.
The board's president, a driving force behind the policy, lost reelection yesterday. boltsmag.org/whats-o...
The board's president, a driving force behind the policy, lost reelection yesterday. boltsmag.org/whats-o...
The 25 Elections to Watch This May - Bolts
Plenty of what’s on the ballot this May ties into national politics: JD Vance’s half-brother; a prosecutor who clashed with Elon Musk over the 2024 elections; the latest chapter in... Read More
boltsmag.org
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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.
puts it in their "From Courts to Clinics" article in @praeyesright.bsky.social's Public Eye magazine.
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...
"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...
May 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
"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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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...
@nbenas.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/trans-h...
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…
lpeproject.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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...
@nbenas.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/trans-h...
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LPE: "How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State"
lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
April 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
LPE: "How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State"
lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
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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....
April 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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....
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
"Contemporary authoritarians everywhere—from Texas to Turkey to Tel Aviv—mobilize misogyny to consolidate their power." PRA's Annie Wilkinson analyzes why gendered and sexual hierarchies are consistently a core element of authoritarian power structures: politicalresearch.org/2025/04/02/g....
April 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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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...
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...
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...
politicalresearch.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
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...
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...
politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...
March 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...
New work from the Gender & Authoritarian Research Collective
@gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social
@gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social
Connecting the dots: “parents’ rights” assaults on public education, authoritarian “anti-gender” campaigns, Heritage Foundation attempts to funnel public $$ to religious academies & more.
“This battle over education is also a battle for democracy itself.”
politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...
“This battle over education is also a battle for democracy itself.”
politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/c...
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...
politicalresearch.org
March 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New work from the Gender & Authoritarian Research Collective
@gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social
@gandaresearchcoll.bsky.social