Gender & Authoritarianism Research Collective

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Outstanding work by @fesonline.bsky.social mapping the tech/policy/finance connections binding the network undermining US democracy now, and that is coming for Europe next. Great visuals. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Tell Billionaire Marc Rowan: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED! Fri. Nov. 7, @ 11 a.m. Apollo Global Management 9 West 57th St, NYC RSVP QR code link: https://view.page/yDwfT6 Union logos: AAUP, AFT, Debt Collective, NY Metro Coalition for Higher Ed, AAUP NYU, Sunrise Movement, SDS, HIGHER ED LABOR UNITED Columbia AAUP, NYSUT, Fordham AAUP, PSC CUNY, UUP, Frontline for Freedom, AAUP-Penn, CU Stand Up, NYU SDS, Strong Economy for all Coalition

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.

I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com

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Toxic masculinity is not what it used to be…

America's Gender Whiplash America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...

PRA Senior Research Analyst Annie Wilkinson appeared on @juliekkohler.bsky.social’s White Picket Fence podcast to discuss how authoritarian regimes depend on gender essentialism and misogyny to consolidate power. Tune in now to learn more: lnk.to/wpfep1.

“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2 In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism.

“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2
@praeyesright.bsky.social @maryrreynolds.bsky.social @ch4ncie44.bsky.social @justisaurus.bsky.social

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If anyone is confused about what is going on: www.cunylawreview.org/freedom-of-t...

Want to stop political violence? Start by addressing hostile sexism. In her new book, an expert on violent extremism lays out evidence that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — so national security officials need to do something about it.

It’s coming fast and furious now. If you are going to read one thing about my book and my work, read this unbelievably rich piece in The 19th News. Jasmine Mithani gets this book, and my aims, on a cellular level.

19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

(En)Gendering Authoritarianism This project explores how authoritarian movements leverage and weaponize gender to divide society and opposition movements, launder and normalize social hierarchies, reshape cultural norms, and lay th...

What's Gender got to do with Authoritarianism?

Theory: (En)Gendering Authoritarianism

belonging.berkeley.edu/engendering-...

Practice: Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching 'Gender Ideology'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

@obi-belonging.bsky.social

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."

Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Trump downplays domestic disturbances as he touts D.C. crime reduction President Trump downplayed domestic disputes in a speech, suggesting they inflate D.C. crime statistics. Critics argue this undermines the seriousness of domestic violence.

How does domestic & intimate partner violence relate to overall crime and targeted violence? Read this article with @milleridriss.bsky.social and @washingtonpost.com, then check out Cynthia's newest book: Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism by Princeton University Press

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump

This is a HUGE win for American higher education!

#DefendHigherEd

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Raising HELU, Wall to Wall and Coast to Coast When Higher Education Labor United was proposed in 2021, the major issues facing higher education were rising tuition, student debt, widespread reliance on contingent faculty, attacks on tenure, threa...

Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc.
@higheredlabor.bsky.social

Thought the same today. Juries are part of the often-frustrating-but-much-better-than-fascism rule of law Trump is destroying.

REsources: “Do Not Let Grief Harden into Despair”: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 1

Following our recent episode of Inform Your Resistance, we have compiled a list of resources to provide you with more insight on how to focus your organizing, right-size the threat, and resist the Right: http://bit.ly/45vleMY.

Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days: Authoritarian Gains and Consolidation, 2025 Political Research Associates The Antidote to Authoritarianism with Jiva Manske, 2025 Political Research Associates What Is Movement Infrastructure? How Movements Sustain Us Amid Rising Authoritarianism, 2024 Cloee Cooper, PRA Q&A: Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence: An interview with Scot Nakagawa and Hardy Merriman, 2024 Naomi Washington-Leapheart, PRA Book Review: Commune or Nothing! Lessons for Building Grassroots Power Toward Liberation and Democracy, 2024 Hialy Gutierrez , PRA

Following our recent episode of Inform Your Resistance, we have compiled a list of resources to provide you with more insight on how to focus your organizing, right-size the threat, and resist the Right: bit.ly/45vleMY.

“Everything about our politics and our policies in the reproductive justice movement has to be different. And as we think about what we’re centering, if we put abortion bans and the anti-abortion movement at the center of our organizing, then we aren’t dreaming of what we deserve.“ The Public Eye Winter/Spring 2025 What changes in our analysis if we put authoritarianism and criminalization at the center of attacks on reproductive justice, rather than the anti-abortion movement and abortion bans? Dr. jamila Perritt President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health

Earlier this year, PRA and our partners hosted a roundtable with gender and reproductive justice activists and change makers to better understand criminalization during this period of authoritarian consolidation. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2025/03/12/a....

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

"It can't happen here" is the handmaiden for "it" happening.

It Feels Like Hell on Earth, but Another World Is Possible A magazine of Black politics and culture

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live.

The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Just a high-ranking US official promoting an extreme Christian nationalist and his belief that women shouldn't have the right to vote.

I reported for @prismreports.org on how universities are another tool in the government’s mass deportation arsenal.

Funding the illiberal backlash in Europe and beyond. My latest on Substack
writekaths.substack.com/p/funding-th...

Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice by Annie Wilkinson In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Gender and Authoritarianism: A Framework for Analysis and Action” by Annie Wilkinson, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the A...

Learn about why gender and sexual hierarchies are core elements of an authoritarian power structure in this new episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/06/12/w....

The way the US Republican Party talks about trans people is eliminationist in nature. They use rhetoric that clearly means that in their view, trans people do not have a right to exist in the world. It is inevitable that some people will hear that and see it as license to commit violence.

I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

What's gender got to do with authoritarianism?: Everything.

Jason Stanley on mainstream media's failure to see the through lines between MAGA attacks on higher ed and global fascism--gender and race are central to its decades-long moral panic and propaganda war.

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