**As of 9/6/23, I am no longer posting to or regularly checking Twitter.** Political scientist @NotreDame. She/her.
Feb 4, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
This event, organized by @NotreDame's Department of African Studies, is kicking off soon. The panelists are impressive, and I'm so encouraged by the stellar national audience as well! Tune in! raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-event…
Moderator Darren Davis argues that race is not just an identity but a methodology, a way of thinking, a way of theorizing, and a way of adhering or not to certain assumptions.
Oct 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Illness=weakness=femininity. There's empirical work on this! Check out these great papers on masks and masculinity in the @PoliticsGenderJ COVID series (1/4):
Of Masks and Men? Gender, Sex and Protective Measures During COVID-19 by @DanCassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino, in @PoliticsGenderJ
https://10.1017/S1743923X20000616
Jun 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The word "sex" was indeed introduced into Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Howard Smith (D, VA), a segregationist. Smith would have been happy to see the bill sunk, but the story is a bit more complicated. THREAD 1/
Smith proposed adding "sex" at the urging of members of the National Women’s Party (Smith was pro-ERA, largely bc he was anti-union) who wanted the provision considered, but who also suggested to Smith that the inclusion of sex might sink the entire bill. 2/
May 8, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The great @jrpjrpjrp already said this but I remain angry about how "replacements for women's free labor" are framed here as "nonessential." On-line shopping and subscription boxes are replacements for the time women used to have to shop for the family. 1/3
Takeout/delivery and restaurants are how you eat when the adults have jobs & the kids are intensively mothered. "Buying lunch" bc nobody has the time to shop for & make a decent meal to take to work. All that's changed is we can now see the considerable costs of these tasks. 2/3
Aug 29, 2017 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I was going to stick w sarcasm but as an actual gender studies prof, there's just so much to unpack here, I can't help myself. THREAD! 1/
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Care work (for children, infirm, elderly) is necessary for human flourishing & has been traditionally performed by women for free, which 2/
