TJ Billard

Thank you so much!

"If misinformation stabilizes disrupted worldviews, the solution lies not in better facts, but in better ways of making meaning."

Fantastic work on the need for broader lenses to address the disordered discourse that emerges from epistemic collapse (to borrow from @eliothiggins.bsky.social).

Combating anti-transgender misinformation: A sociological approach Anti-transgender misinformation has become a defining feature of political discourse across the Anglosphere, driving a surge in harmful legislation and public attitudes. Learning from the change-ma...

Excited my most recent article is out now! In it, we talk about our work to combat anti-trans misinfo at @transstudies.bsky.social and the research my students are I are doing advancing a new framework for understanding misinfo effects.

Give it a read here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R6MNB...

I’ve published a bit in the last few years, but today I just submitted the first major, multi-study, all new data paper from the next phase of my research career. It’s some bold new ideas and I haven’t been this nervous going into peer review in a long time!

It only took me 2.5 hours but I figured out how to give 50 free views with this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTY45...

I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪

I activated my out of office for my research leave and I could not be more excited. 😭 Don’t expect an email response for the rest of the year, but do expect updates on some major research projects! 📚

Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump TJ Billard offers an insider’s view into transgender activism during the first two years of the first Trump administration.

Join us on March 20 for an insightful discussion on Transgender Equality!

📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute
⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social

🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.

You can find it here:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

internally at Meta:
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

So glad you liked it! 💕

Thank you! 💕

This is an amazing piece by @billard.bsky.social . So many important points not just for political communication but also political science and the social sciences generally.

Thanks for being a part of this project TJ! ❤️
This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.

I had so many thoughts that I could have written 10,000 words on this topic, but I tried my best to distill them down to as close to 2,000 as I could get! Please give it a read. 😃

And a special thanks to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for making the issue happen, for wanting to include me in it, and for invaluable comments in crafting my piece!

The latest issue of @polcomm.bsky.social’s Political Communication Report, on normative dimensions of pol comm research, is out now! Excited to have a piece in the issue alongside so many brilliant scholars I adore.

Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

Thank you so much! 😃 I was worried about my… directness. So I’m glad it was well received! 💕

Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.

It’s crazy to watch the plot of Wicked play out in real time while the film is actively playing in theatres.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...

The amount of fun people are having on Twitter with The Claims Adjuster versus the amount of buzzkill scolding people are doing on Bluesky is why I doubt I’ll ever spend that much time on here.

Honored to have made GCN’s list of books you should read this winter!

gcn.ie/queer-books-...

We're hiring in American Politics at the junior level. Position will be affiliated with GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Applications due January 2nd. I'm on sabbatical, but I am happy to answer questions about the dept., broadly. DM me. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...

Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...

It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...

Open access >> Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🗳️ The 2024 elections saw a surge in anti-trans political ads, as the Republican Party capitalized on gender panics and cultural divides. @billard.bsky.social explores the effectiveness of these ads and the radicalization of the right in his latest analysis. Dive in here: https://bit.ly/4eBbfs0

Great to watch my student Walker West Brewer present their year-long ethnography of political socialization among LDS women, which I supervised, at #NCA24!

Popped by New Orleans to pick up an award at #NCA24!

(Ignore the fact the title is wrong on the plaque.)

😂