Ilana Gershon
@structureless.bsky.social
anthropologist at Rice University
NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
www.huffpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
SAW's Exertions published a discussion of my recent book a few days ago that the indomitable Carrie Lane organized. There is no better gift to give an author then this kind of generous engagement: saw.americananthro.org/book-forum--...
Book forum : The Pandemic Workplace
saw.americananthro.org
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
SAW's Exertions published a discussion of my recent book a few days ago that the indomitable Carrie Lane organized. There is no better gift to give an author then this kind of generous engagement: saw.americananthro.org/book-forum--...
I keep thinking that Trump and Musk are changing what it means to be pro/life --- it is now profits over life
February 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I keep thinking that Trump and Musk are changing what it means to be pro/life --- it is now profits over life
The most hopeful take on why Trump's current actions show his weakness that I have seen yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The most hopeful take on why Trump's current actions show his weakness that I have seen yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
I thought this was such a useful take on what DEI programs are actually doing at universities, and what it means to ban them: www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
What’s the Point of Trump’s War on D.E.I.?
To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.
www.newyorker.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I thought this was such a useful take on what DEI programs are actually doing at universities, and what it means to ban them: www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Just in time for the inauguration: newlinesmag.com/argument/lab...
Laboratories of Authoritarianism
How undemocratic workplaces sowed the seeds of Trumpism
newlinesmag.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just in time for the inauguration: newlinesmag.com/argument/lab...
I think faculty are thinking too small when we talk about academic freedom. Wwe should fight for intellectual freedom in all workplaces. Go big!
academeblog.org/2024/12/18/i...
academeblog.org/2024/12/18/i...
Intellectual Freedom in All Workplaces
BY ILANA GERSHON Academic freedom sounds so academic—especially for employees frustrated at work because they are answering workplace surveys all the time, and yet somehow their insights about how…
academeblog.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
I think faculty are thinking too small when we talk about academic freedom. Wwe should fight for intellectual freedom in all workplaces. Go big!
academeblog.org/2024/12/18/i...
academeblog.org/2024/12/18/i...
I thought maybe a different take on Trump's appeal might be interesting to read -- so just posted a discussion about my new book on the CaMP anthropology blog: campanthropology.org/2024/11/11/i...
Ilana Gershon on her book, The Pandemic Workplace
Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli Bonnie Urciuoli: What arguments in your book seem relevant right after Trump’s victory on November 5th? Ilana Gershon: We just had an election that, for half the …
campanthropology.org
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 AM
I thought maybe a different take on Trump's appeal might be interesting to read -- so just posted a discussion about my new book on the CaMP anthropology blog: campanthropology.org/2024/11/11/i...
This narrative that the Democrats ignored the working class is really aggravating. Be specific. You’re talking about the white working class because the Black working class understood the stakes of this election just fine.
November 11, 2024 at 1:43 AM
For academics -- mid career fellowship: www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...
February 5, 2024 at 2:06 PM
For academics -- mid career fellowship: www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...
I am almost finished reading contentious pandemic US school board meetings for an article. I finally came across an anti-masker mentioning Thomas Paine. So far, the historical figures anti-maskers mention have been: Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela. I am so befuddled by this.
December 21, 2023 at 2:45 AM
I am almost finished reading contentious pandemic US school board meetings for an article. I finally came across an anti-masker mentioning Thomas Paine. So far, the historical figures anti-maskers mention have been: Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela. I am so befuddled by this.
“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a teacher named Alyssa Marano said at the meeting. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
newrepublic.com/article/1768...
newrepublic.com/article/1768...
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2023 at 7:54 PM
“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a teacher named Alyssa Marano said at the meeting. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
newrepublic.com/article/1768...
newrepublic.com/article/1768...