Jennifer Piscopo

To me, it is becoming increasingly insensitive to make the life-under-fascism is boring argument -- even as it may be generally true -- when immigrants in the US have been afraid to leave the house for months. We need to find new and better ways of publicly communicating what fascism feels like.

I understand your statement. I am a scholar of gender and democratization & I know and teach the theory. In many ways, I do not disagree. But my point is we need to recognize that these theories and explanations are from the perspective of the privileged. The frogs were never bored.

I understand we want to explain large-scale complacency, but let's be clear: authoritarianism is *not* boring for women, minoritized individuals, immigrants, dissidents & everyone whose existence and rights are actively threatened by the regime. Erasing the harms is part of how complacency wins.

The point is not only to make parents, families, and people feel guilty; the *main* point is to make *women* *be* guilty. This whole shebang is deeply tied to the Trump's administration efforts to return women to their 'proper' roles in hearth and home and to police their bodies and their choices.

Oh yes, they know. That's even (part of) the point.

This is so not surprising. A ministry civil servant once handed Argentina's 2005 election results on a floppy disk... In 2009. The IT team at UC San Diego had to resuscitate a computer from the scrap heap to read it. Then it turned out the spreadsheet file was a QuickBooks format from the 1990s...

Which I know is not a substantive response but.... Urrggghhh.

Urgh!!!!!

An amazing thank you @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & @sfranceschet.bsky.social for choosing my article 'Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation' for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
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18 of mine...

And so the political scientists continue, screaming fruitlessly into the void of actual politicians' behaviour...

Oooh!! I used to teach an Ethics and Politics class and used both cases to talk about dissent, institutional culture & whistleblowing. I studied astronomy as an undergrad & my father worked on the Apollo missions. I would always get emotional teaching Columbia.... But such important care studies.

No, really, how do I get one of these in Canada? I will pay!

YouTube video by UN Women How social norms shape who leads and decides in politics | WYDE | Women’s Leadership Initiative

Happy to be featured in this new video from UN Women discussing barriers to women's political participation-- and for all the women aspirants out there, why 'it's not you, it's them'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLy...

We aren't APSR, but zero in my timeb associate editing PGI and lead editing at EJPG. Even short commentaries that are not peer reviewed, and that we invite, get a minor revisions the first time.

It has been an honor to participate in @msmagazine.com's podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with @carmenriosss.bsky.social. In this episode, we talk about how feminists worldwide have redefined democracy ⤵️
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...

They certainly ensured I paid the 2.99 GBP I owed them on my self-assessment....

I cannot believe I'm in the same podcast as Dolores Huerta and Goveror Maura Healey. Subscribe today for the new @msmagazine.com podcast on feminist futures with @carmenriosss.bsky.social! 🔽

I added London, UK -- but feel free to delete if you are not tracking international protests.

It was so lovely to spend the day with smart gender and politics scholars, learning about such new and wonderful work! Thank you so much @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social!

"escalating tensions"....

This is in addition to just annotating the PDF as if is were paper and then making a new PDF with your annotations. There are a lot of videos on YouTube of people using the different features so you can see how it works ... I watched a lot before I bought!

there is a digest feature where you can bracket text on a PDF and it excerpts the bracketed text to a digest, where you can add notes and then export just the bracketed text and the notes. You can tap to move between the bracketed text and the original file. You can tag and organize excepts.

There are partner apps for syncing and a drive or Dropbox integration, so any PDFs you have can be synced from your laptop to the device.

Hmmm. There is a built in web browser and also you can load a Kindle app, but I've mostly just loaded PDFs that are on my hard drive, rather than trying to annotate ebooks from the web/Kindle app. It's amazing at PDF annotation, and then you can export a new PDF with your annotations.

My supernote changed my life! I never print anymore and I carry it everywhere. I use it to take notes and read and annotate PDFs and it has been amazing. Paper without paper! I miss beautiful notebooks but having all my notes in one place and not having it be my laptop is great!

Roadmap for an Equitable Future: Placing a Gender Lens on American Public Policy - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI) REPORT: Integrating a gender perspective in policymaking is a promising new approach for accelerating women's equality in the United States.

We have a new pathway for gender equality in the US. I am proud to have partnered with the Los Angeles-based Gender Equity Policy Institute to coauthor a new policy brief on taking a gender lens to public policy. thegepi.org/roadmap-equi...

I love this so much!!!

And even this great article is still *mostly about men* and only talks substantively about women in the last two paragraphs, while foregrounding how "men are not ok".

Great piece! Except (and this is surely the editor's choice and not the author's) a piece supposedly centered on how the real story is about women actually only talks about women in the last two paragraphs. Sigh.