Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)

Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin Shoshanna Ehlich interviews Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin about pronatalism.

To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities.

Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️

The Technofascist Technology Quiz I’ve begun a new project to synthesize the emerging literature around “technofascism” into an accessible explainer. Since I’m an educator…

Is a technology that you use contributing to fascism? What are the characteristics of technofascism?

Find out by taking the Technofascist Technology Quiz - medium.com/data-feminis...

(I'd love to hear which tech you evaluate and how it scores)

The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action Gendered Burdens and the Right to Vote

With the SAVE act, Republicans want to make it more difficult for married women who have changed their name to vote—and that is more likely to be Republican women. Seems counterintuitive but not if the long term goal is repealing the 19th A. By Pamela Herd. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

Epstein Family Values Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right

Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance (2026, Volume 14)
Edited by Paola Sartoretto and Sandra Jeppesen
Complete issue: doi.org/10.17645/mac...

Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See When data is missing, it’s not just a technical glitch — it’s a story about power. Recently, at McGill Love Data Week, Data + Feminism…

Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See by @ale_jungs medium.com/data-feminis...

What is Technofascism? I’m on sabbatical this spring and was studiously avoiding starting any new projects. But the siege of Minneapolis, the killings of Renée…

New & necessary thinking from @kanarinka.bsky.social trying to explain technofascism to those involved in its systems: medium.com/data-feminis... "the collusion of large technology firms, right-wing billionaires, and tech culture with authoritarian and anti-democratic political agendas "

The New York Times wants to be able to lie about trans people and not face any pushback.

They will be remembered for what they have done and no amount of bullshit will wipe the blood from their hands.

Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons A Tome of Creatures, Spirits, and Characters for your Coyote & Crow Roleplaying Stories!

SO excited for this one from @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social.

They've already hit their funding goal and are working toward the stretch goals!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...

O que está em jogo na Venezuela? Feministas latino-americanas respondem Perguntas e respostas de uma rede de mulheres latino-americanas e caribenhas sobre a invasão dos Estados Unidos à Venezuela: perspectivas regionais e de gênero.

A América Latina segue reafirmando sua existência, memória e organização coletiva.

Após a invasão dos EUA a Venezuela, mulheres da rede Amassuru se reuniram para escutar, elaborar coletivamente e registrar o que atravessa a região.

catarinas.info/o-que-esta-e...

thank you!

What an artful, celebratory, life-affirming fuck you to Trump, white nationalism, and imperialism

Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!

@sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "The structure of thought of today’s backlash—its unremitting core—is a supremacist worldview based in biological determinism, social dominance hierarchy, and the free exercise of legitimized violence."

The connections between LLMs and fascist orality are intriguing - maybe there’s something comforting about both in the sense that LLMs are obsequious statistical speech and fascist leaders reduce history/complexity to a single supremacist story

Amazing - thanks for these references!!

Just requested that our library purchase it!

That is super helpful suggestion...just copied it into my notes document...

This looks great - definitely checking it out!!!

Yes - as I’m not a political scientist I’ve been trying to reflect on and disentangle authoritarianism and fascism in relation to this present moment.

Yes I think the Möllers piece makes a really compelling argument but I haven’t read the Akbari piece so I’ll definitely check that out.

This is one of the key things I've been thinking about - what's new or different versus what is the same but intensified with technology and/or tech ideologies.

What do you think? Drop me a line with comments, readings and resources I should be reviewing as this moves forward.

Some of those are still with us: e.g. eugenics, the gender binary, scientism, and the cult of the male genius. Today’s technofascism is acute because it has been exacerbated by extreme wealth inequality, financialization, environmental destruction and billionaire delusion." </end definition>

Such regimes regularly used their most advanced technologies to exploit nature, steal land, subjugate women, discipline gender-nonconforming people, and dehumanize racialized populations. Over history, various ideologies emerged to justify such adventures in resource-hoarding.

Technofascism did not begin in 2025. Rather paradoxically, it has its roots in Western liberal democracy: colonial and imperialist systems that were always predicated on human rights for some and conquest and extraction for others.

and the elevation of misogyny, transphobia, hate speech and mob violence on out-of-control social media platforms.