Howell Williams

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I loved it

During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word.

Answers:

Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway

"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim

Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.

Okay, for those of you who can't do the scavenger hunt, I'm gonna take you with me via video lol

Mamdani scavenger hunt is thawing—just slightly—my perennially cold political heart. Community building is hopeful work.

Thank you! Although I can’t seem to DM you. Will email you a request for the contact details

Thanks for the boost!

HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY | 2025 Documentary From Director Sam Feder New documentary that premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposin...

Watched Heightened Scrutiny last night. Excellent doc about the harmful power of the media to shape narratives about trans lives. Highly recommend.

www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com

The Radical Mind The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscape of Ameri...

Highly recommend Chelsea Ebin’s @chelseaebin.bsky.social recent book on the subject. She advances a notion of “prefigurative traditionalism” to counter the idea that conservatives just want to “return to the past”

kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636990/

Very helpful! Thanks

I’m looking for advice on good indexers for my book. Has anyone worked with someone recently they would recommend? Book is on fatherhood and race in 20th century APD, so qual poli sci/history pros especially helpful.

You’re in my thoughts, Jenn. Sending positive energy your way.

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The poster on the wall really sends it for me

My forthcoming book on fatherhood politics discusses this postcard to highlight how suffrage provoked crisis in patriarchal norms

Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

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so "where they are" is freighted by deeply moralized (and racialized) notions of manliness. "toughness" as proxy for intelligence or ability (a la Hegseth).

the line between "boys are just misunderstood" and bro culture seems razor thin to me.

both right and left commentators wring hands about the status of boys and advocate meeting boys "where they are" and being inclusive of their concerns. But boys are often fed unhealthy shit like "lift heavy things and ppl (or girls) will like u"

The problem with “are men/boys ok?” discourse is it only feeds into reactionary politics like this

Color coded map that shows the %age of Black people in the US by state using variations of green.

If you care about the well being of Black people, here is a color coded map showing you where we are concentrated in this country before you drop your ignorant “red state” take.

If this were a repeated line from congressional Democrats, there would be countless think pieces about why such rhetoric is alienating young men from the party.

Self Esteem’s Glastonbury set…remarkable!

Lucy the dog with her favorite stuffed bear

Said goodbye to this sweet 17-year-old today. Rest well, Lucy 💕

Congrats, AJ…will definitely get a copy!

Yes! And I’ll go one further: can we not use “performative” when we mean “performance”?

Read your Butler!