Amanda Jean Stevenson

FWIW many of the longest running orgs have largely or essentially stopped advocacy in the past 15 years on the abortion rights side

but on the other side, too. they're FIGHTING.

for REAL

This is a surprisingly non-trivial question. The proliferation of organizations on both sides since the 2010s is extreme and many of the new orgs are particularly influential. I'm sorry I don't have a concrete suggestion about where to look!

This is great! Thank you!

the worst thing about being a demographer besides being a tool of the administrative state is that you start to think words like "fecundable" are normal

Seriously though, this is what professors are FOR. These two don't know what this will get us and neither do I, but it's cool and interesting and it MIGHT be critical someday so they wrote it all out even though it's mildly absurd. I am so happy and grateful.

I love you, European demographers. Please never, ever change ❤️

There's so much to fight for. <3

Today on a perfect fall walk while my kid did time trials on his bike, I convinced my mom to make art about her political feelings.

sad!

oh my god are they still mad at Eisenhower?!

People threatening to kill you and your family sucks. I'm sorry. And also death threats from individuals different in kind. Governmental threats and actions against dissenters and firings in service of swiftly-changing government demands are new concerns and it is reasonable to take them seriously.

or wear somebody else's clothes if that's what you're into

wear your clothes while you still have them!

love this so much!

Scandal-mongering is such a common way to obscure revanchism, isn't it?!

It’s wild how much of what he thought me is irrelevant now, but having contempt for the contemptible is a lesson that never loses its shine ☀️✨💖

That man was right about a lot.

Before I understood literally anything about the weird inside baseball of academia my advisor tried to socialize me about what deans and presidents are and how to deal with new ones and all I remember of that weird talk was him saying the Chronicle of Higher Education was a tabloid.

Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context Participating journal: Population Research and Policy Review Call for Papers Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential economic effects of population aging have spurred many countries to engage in efforts to raise birth rates. At the same time, there is growing concern about the social and cultural causes and consequences of low birth rates. Pronatalism – an ideology based on the belief that birth rates are too low, and societies should work to raise them in the interest of economic productivity and cultural preservation – has re-emerged as an increasingly visible and powerful force across different settings. The dynamics of low fertility – such as fertility decline, postponement, and changing patterns of family formation – have been common topics in population science over the last 25 years, but pronatalism has received considerably less attention from the field. This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. We welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism. Further research is needed on the evidentiary base upon which pronatalism rests; the social, political, and cultural inspirations and implications of pronatalism; and the support for, and effects of, pronatalist policies. Evaluation of alternative approaches (besides raising birth rates) for addressing changes in population size and composition is also warranted. Submissions that discuss the causes and consequences of low fertility but do not directly engage with pronatalism fall outside of the scope of this issue.

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

debasing our credentials :(

Good point! The decline started in the 1920s but the population age structure was changing fast in the early 20th century - especially at reproductive ages due to immigration, which is probably why you see this pattern in the cohorts.

Good question. I don't know! But it was well past 1950!

We have to win against fascism because we love ourselves and each other and because they'll beat every bit of this kind of verve out of us.

population pyramids for 1900 and 1940 - the 1940 pyramid was narrower on the bottom, prompting terror regarding population aging. Which SPOILER didn't come to pass, did it?

Check it out! Population aging was scary in 1950! But they had STYLE.

www.planning.org/publications...

The coolest population pyramid of all time. For the US in 1940. Check out the age distribution - narrow on the bottom because population aging was coming for us all (shudder). But the cool thing is that the bars are rows of figures and the figures CHANGE AS THEY AGE. Babies on the bottom, old people using canes on the top. So cool. Fight the fascism. <3 Amanda

Sharing because I love you all.

same, carl.

I hate it so much but also that (was?) like 30% of why we (had?) job security as demographers, I think.