Laurie Essig

We Talk to Really Smart People: Carol Anderson

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...

My latest rant on the attack on gender studies. Read it and then help organize to save the university from fascist takeover.

10. Reproductive Genocide

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Bonus: The Power of the Small Minority Feminism, Fascism, and the Future · Episode

Hey we need you to keep protesting. 3.5% of us can take this regime down. Have a listen open.spotify.com/episode/0vCr...

Wow thank you.

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.

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...

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.

Bonus: Women Who Fight Fascists Feminism, Fascism, and the Future · Episode

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.

Trump Administration Live Updates: White South Africans Given Refugee Status Arrive in the United States

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.

Loved doing this. Hate fascism.

History Teaches . . . Why the 2024 Elections Turned Out As They Did Historians of the United States Do Our Jobs, Despite . . . All of It

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...

N.Y.U. Langone Cancels Doctor’s Speech, Citing Anti-Government Tone Dr. Joanne Liu, an N.Y.U. graduate, said the cancellation of her presentation on humanitarian crises was a sign of the climate of fear at U.S. universities.

We no longer have anything like the First Amendment

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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...

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

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...

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.

Now we ate importing white nationalists www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

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

Trump Promised Americans Booming Wealth. Now He’s Changing His Tune. President Trump’s sweeping promises are running headlong into the reality of governing.

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...

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.

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...

Meet the Millennial Women Buying Their Own Engagement Rings There's nothing wrong with it. So why does it feel so complicated?

Me talking about patriarchy in Marie Claire www.marieclaire.com/career-advic...

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.

Fascist leaders eventually ask the popularion to sacrifice www.newsweek.com/americans-go...

Is anyone gonna tell him about his makeup?

Vance should have gone to Russia to ski. Vermont is a fascist free zone.

We Talk to Really Smart People: Clare Hemmings Feminism, Fascism, and the Future · Episode

Our latest in the We Talk to Really Smart People series- this time with Clare Hemmings open.spotify.com/episode/0Uh1...

Exactly. Loved this convo. Cant wait to make it into a podcast!

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott