Thanks to @interpretivemm.bsky.social for featuring my article in @pspolisci.bsky.social on patterns of gender and LGBTQIA+ research in top journals: alas, still a long way to go towards inclusion! Read the section's great new research digest here: us13.campaign-archive.com?u=481e9fba53....
Most of the AI hype guys are just that: men. It's next gen performative quant worship, with all is smug masculinity and smarter-than-thou discourse, but I don't think many women are fooled. We've seen this from men academics before.
Every minute of every day, I hate this timeline more.
All this but also replace 'local government consultation' with 'feedback rounds' conducted by university senior mangement....
New Substack from our Assistant Director, Charli McMackin: the 'searching mothers' in Mexico and the gendered outsourcing of justice—when the state abandons the search, women inherit 'care for the dead.'
Read the full article here: royalhollowaygenderinstitute.substack.com/p/from-care-...
🙏 to Ximena Caló for writing abt my @apsrjournal.bsky.social article w/ Amanda Clayton & @dzobrien.bsky.social: across 12 democracies, gender parity rules for ♀️ in politics do *not* lead citizens to think govt institutions procedures & decisions are less fair!
politicalsciencenow.com/what-voters-...
This was a fun (and rigorous) paper for us to receive, and we were happy the reviewers also saw it's potential!
I ask my students: who benefits when you and everyone else surrenders critical thinking to an alogirthm? Who benefits when you can no longer evaluate information or make decisions for yourself about yourself, and instead ask a machine its 'advice'? It's not you. It's those who would exploit you.
1000% hate this victim-blaming. It's a scam all the way down: people grifting on selling AI training, putting all responsibility on users, when it remains a terrible product w/ low productivity returns, enormous environ costs & along-term goal of severing citizens' ability to think for themselves.
Grandson of the Thai monarch....
Come study with us at @genderrhul.bsky.social @rhulpir.bsky.social! We offer an interdisciplinary Masters in Gender Studies, with an intersectional focus, and we welcome students of all gender identities and lived experiences of gender. 🌈♀️
Thank you for sharing: you are not alone! Among the many things I spend my day internally and sometimes externally screaming about, AI is top three (alongside the death of democracy and the cruel tormenting of trans people).
Thinking tonight of that time when things were going very badly for the Argentine military junta so they decided to reclaim the Falkland Islands....
Thanks to the comms team at @royalholloway.bsky.social, you can read a summary of our work here: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/sto...
Thrilled that my new research w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social on Bogota's Manzanas del Cuidado -- Blocks of Care -- is now published via the @genderrhul.bsky.social and Ladysmith: we find that feminist care policy *is* possible and reproducible across contexts! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/699028...
Thanks @timlongman.bsky.social! It's been a fun transition -- though sometimes in December I miss the CA sunshine!
The classic move: public opinion is some neutral legitimate thing, but the public opinion of women is a biased, illegitimate thing. Women can never exist within the polity! Only the neutral public can exist... which is actually the public devoid of women, and only of men. Neat!
In fact, we have just released a new brief based on our academic research and fieldwork at the Manzanas del Cuidado, from the CaRI Project on Care, Rights, and Inclusion!
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And don't sever global talent (or any) visa holders from dependents. Under the new proposed rules, spouses and children of GTVs have longer paths to ILR than the visa holders. Unclear then how spouses and children stay once the GTV visa holder qualifies: what new visa do they get? It's cruel.
My new article with Anna Elomäki and Claudia Weisner analyses how, despite international policy conversations about building caring economies, even countries well-poised to invest in care after COVID-19 did not do so: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @rhulpir.bsky.social
Sorry, Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides. :)
Ooh, I have lots of nautical non-fiction recs! The Wide Wide World by Hampton Sides takes on Cook's doomed third voyage. And if you want the stars instead, Adam Higginbotham's recounting of The Challenger disaster (called Challenger).
I'll send you an email!
I am really appreciating your analysis! Do you speak Spanish? I have a few media outlets in Chile that I often commentate for on US politics, and they are looking for someone to talk about Venezuela, but I do not have the expertise!
I love this one. But I loved the old ones even better....https://youtu.be/FQ9Xpzi4qkU?si=nWKbd6fGGNKfSSyb
I'm so excited to read this!!! Felicidades!
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
Publication day! In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Verónica Pérez-Bentancur, Cecilia Rocha-Carpuic & I use data from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana & South Africa to propose a new framework for analysing "feminists vs conservative" battles over abortion reform.
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To me, it is becoming increasingly insensitive to make the life-under-fascism is boring argument -- even as it may be generally true -- when immigrants in the US have been afraid to leave the house for months. We need to find new and better ways of publicly communicating what fascism feels like.
I understand your statement. I am a scholar of gender and democratization & I know and teach the theory. In many ways, I do not disagree. But my point is we need to recognize that these theories and explanations are from the perspective of the privileged. The frogs were never bored.
