Jennifer Doyle

Not one eyebrow lifted even a tiny bit.

Sorry for all the type’os. This is apparently how I register my ambivalence about the discursive ecology of social media platforms.

That weekend helped me to understand something. Private, elite liberal arts college alumni & faculty often have a unique kind of anger, a deep & lasting injury. No wonder. The level of gaslighting was intense & specific!

Claudia Rankine seemed on the program to, in essence, hold down the Black feminist position. And she was fantastic. But the whole thing just felt wrong. I feel relatively safe in saying most of the women on the program regretting participating in this event.

There was no room at all of the politico-philosophical issues at the core of feminist legal study. And, furthermore, no one organizing that had the competency to see the way the conference reproduced intersectional assumptions in separating race and sex on the program.

The "education" I took from that weekend was that Bard couldn't commit to confronting the real questions of the moment. That event was organized at the height of #metoo as a chance to have deep conversations with Brodsky, Halley, and myself, or give Gaitskill her own space to read her work.

Botstein offered his promise that we'd be offended as if that was synonymous with education. He is a disgusting concern troll.

And they gave the guy in charge of Koch-funded org FIRE (and anti-censorship org that looks ok from a distance but is very much not) a whole session. 🤮.

The program was bizzare: they put heavy hitters like novelist Mary Gaitskill, legal scholar Janet Haley & activist-turned-lawyer Alexandra Brodsky on a roundtable (w me as moderator). Each one of these folks could have keynoted.

A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein

In 2016 I was invited to Bard to participate in a conference about difficult questions. This guy gave an opening address in which he PROMISED the audience that many if not most would, at some point be OFFENDED. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Shadow of My Shadow

Shadow of My Shadow (my 2024 book) is about working in misogynist institutions. It’s not a hot take but kindof a smoldering ember. If you are feeling some kind of way about the Epstein file drops, it might be a good companion. www.dukeupress.edu/shadow-of-my...

what if the real sex trafficking cabal was just the patriarchy we made along the way

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

Previewing the 2026 Winter Olympics

Show bestie @julesboykoff.bsky.social joins to map the political implications of the Milano-Cortina games, including sportswashing, the impact of geopolitical tensions on athletes, and the growing activism against the Olympics.

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Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.

This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.

Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Amid immigration raids, a coalition of U.S. leaders gather in L.A. to share resistance strategies On a warm Friday morning, a group of organizers, academics and public officials stood in MacArthur Park, peering at an empty soccer field.

Amid immigration raids, a coalition of U.S. leaders gather in L.A. to share resistance strategies

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

The Israeli Firms Running Mega-Event Security Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also enabling the genocide in Palestine. But the World Cup, Olympics, and other mega-events are more than just business opportun...

I’m oversimplifying here but unpacking security at these events takes you to some of the scariest corners of security/policing practice! nolympicsla.com/2025/09/02/t...

Seven detained outside West Loop Target as protesters demand retailer stand against ICE Several people were detained at Chicago’s West Loop Target Thursday night amid a protest outside the store to demand the retailer publicly denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as it co…

Impossible to keep up with the amount of activism happening across the country.... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/t... [Gift link]

TUSD may cancel Friday classes due to employee absences in protest of ICE - AZ Luminaria The Tucson Unified School District says it may cancel classes Friday because of hundreds of potential employee absences protesting immigration enforcement across the country. TUSD Superintendent Gabri...

The largest school district in Tucson may cancel classes tomorrow because they are anticipating massive staff absenteeism for the ICE protests.

Go teachers go! You are changing lives by example.

Think about it: to attend a game in the US or to enter a fan zone, you are passing through DHS operated security thresholds. No one should be trusting anything part of themselves with that.

I personally would like the World Cup to feel like the fashion district here in LA does now — what is normally one of the most vibrant spaces on earth is dead quiet because people are too afraid to be out in public.

You can't shrug off a boycott call because it won't be effective. Any action that suppresses attendance or that pressures FIFA to relocate matches will be in the interest of safety.

On boycotting World Cup: this not a classic boycott call in that there is not a specific aim. It is a safety issue. DHS provides security for WC events in the U.S. It's not crazy to assume that this WC will precipitate kidnappings, injuries, & murder. Dangerous for fans, team staff & players.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

“We All Have a Name”: The Home Depot’s First FIFA World Cup Campaign The creative direction in The Home Depot’s latest FIFA World Cup ad campaign is deeply personal. The commercial themed “We All Have a Name,” celebrates the pride and legacy behind every name—whether i...

JFC. I knew there was irony to Home Depot being an official World Cup supporter but as rapid response teams are shouting "WHAT IS YOUR NAME" at workers being kidnapped off Home Depot lots, this ad is beyond irony — it is full-on Orwellian nightmare. corporate.homedepot.com/news/partner...

Been struggling to find words to make this point. This is 100% accurate. It's like a wormhole that moves you lightspeed from the most intimate scenes of violence to the scale of Empire.

What's w/ slogans like this? It's not how people talk! Not even in a pregame huddle! (Think: "We are not losing to these f...ing bitches!", Abby Wambach's call to her team as they gutted out an NCAA title. Actually, I'll take THAT slogan for this historical moment right now. Fuck ICE.)