Mary McLoughlin

Thanks for all your work making it possible!

not only is it great to see @mmcloughlin.bsky.social's dissertation research published, but it is also the 100th (!) APSA DDRIG-funded article published since @apsa.bsky.social took over the program in 2020. always in awe of the impact they are making across political science.

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#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Transnational Transphobias: Feminist and Traditionalist Anti-Gender Affective Orientations - https://cup.org/4kGYktp

- M. McLoughlin (Syracuse University)

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Out now in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! Here’s my analysis of how anti-trans feminists and traditionalists manage their competing commitments in their shared politics of transphobia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech 'I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.'

Arundhati Roy's incandescent award acceptance speech about Palestine and Lebanon, in which she acknowledges so many jailed writers.

"Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine."

Cruel policy and a betrayal of human rights and our values.

I understand the political value, but the politics of immigration are not going to change as long as we continue to accept the right's frame. And we really need to change them before we sink much deeper into climate crisis.

How CNN describes ethnic cleansing

Would also love a world where the Harris response “transgender operations on illegal aliens” is a recognition that trans (and all other kinds) of health care is a human right and undocumented and incarcerated individuals are fully human rather than distancing herself from earlier progressive stances

Would love to see democrats counter this xenophobic hate speech by doing literally anything besides showing that they’re also willing to dehumanize migrants with increased border militarization and weakened asylum protections

I believe our democracy depends on Kamala Harris defeated Donald Trump in November.

This speech seems completely consistent with that belief and that goal.

Syracuse University punishes student legal observer for pro-Palestinian protest A Syracuse University student has been found guilty of violating the school's student code of conduct over their alleged participation in a pro-Palestinian protest.

Academic milestone: Paid by the university to teach students to engage in global politics, and punished by the university for keeping students safe as they engage in global politics

www.waer.org/news/2024-08...

Though transphobes across the political spectrum claim they are concerned with sex—not gender—these parallel claims that 1. strong women must be male and 2. men who defer to women must be female tells us that policing sex is fundamentally a means of creating and enforcing gender

This weeks roundup of misplaced transphobia demonstrates the ways that—beyond harming trans people—transphobia often extends to cis people to create and enforce a regulatory system around what it’s “natural” and therefore “right” for men and women to be

Netanyahu Visit & US Contempt for International Law To comply with the World Court ruling, the U.S. would have to end its military assistance to Israel and stop providing political and diplomatic cover to enable Israel’s occupation of Palestinian terri...

"just five days after the ICJ notified all U.N. member states that they have a legal “obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

consortiumnews.com/2024/07/26/n...

you don’t have to subject yourself to images of gruesome violence, but you should know that they exist, that you and I paid for that brutality with our taxes and our ignorance, and that nearly every one of our elected officials thinks that that violence is good and that we should fund more of it

There is no academic freedom at universities while they fund genocide and support the military industrial complex when conducting the “normal” politics of academia means legitimizing and/or intellectually or financially contributing to these institutions.

When so much of grad schools feels like socialization in how to compromise enough for the academy to be rewarded by it, it’s a privilege to learn from student encampments what it looks like to risk security so that education/scholarship might become liberatory.

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following publ...

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: "In the year after the New York Times was met with public scrutiny for its coverage on transgender legislation, Media Matters found that it failed to quote trans people in 66% of stories on the subject."

Since Oct 7th, NYT reported on antisemitism 5 times more often than on Islamophobia

The Times mentioned Israel and Israelis more often than others in their coverage each week since October 7th ... while the death toll in Gaza surpassed 25 times the Israeli death toll as of March

Times coverage of the war on Gaza quoted both Israeli and American sources more often than Palestinian ones

The Times used passive voice to describe Palestinians 1.7 times more often than when describing Israelis ...and used active voice with different vocabulary

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

Queer kids lose their innocence when forced to navigate a world made hostile and dangerous to them, and their peers lose their innocence when parents, schools, and politicians deputize them to maintain that hostility. Transphobia threatens the innocence of all children.

The religious right so often frames anti-LGBTQ school policies as protecting childhood innocence, but it’s their anti-trans vitriol that radicalized 3 teenagers enough to fatally wound a peer and their policies that have other queer kids afraid of the same. Nex Benedict should be happy and alive.

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Defends Israel’s Policies Toward Palestinians At the United Nations’ top court, a U.S. official argued that calls for Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories ignore the country’s “real security needs.”

“Israel has long rejected accusations that it operates an apartheid system, calling such allegations a slur…”

A SLUR???

Language is being gutted and the incoherence this shift creates is lethal.

"What could we, a silly little global hegemony do to influence our terrifying client state? Surely we could never stop running interference in various international forums or providing several kinds of direct military support?!?? That would never work."

Thank you!

Thank you!!

Thanks Seth!