Annie Kelly
@annieknk.bsky.social
Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
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The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
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The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖
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In hindsight, kinda obvious that this is just influencer hustle. I'm sure she believes it on some level but you can just tell the audience something then do the opposite cause well, it's a good idea. Can't be too careful. It's your baby after all.
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In hindsight, kinda obvious that this is just influencer hustle. I'm sure she believes it on some level but you can just tell the audience something then do the opposite cause well, it's a good idea. Can't be too careful. It's your baby after all.
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Read Male Fantasies.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Read Male Fantasies.
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in the course of musk's pronatalist crusade he implemented one of the largest single policy inflicted child death events of the 21st century so this is par for the course
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
in the course of musk's pronatalist crusade he implemented one of the largest single policy inflicted child death events of the 21st century so this is par for the course
That Guardian freebirthing article has sparked civil war in tradwife twitter. One of them is writing paragraphs about how she believes the FBS is a witchcraft cult designed to trick women into sacrificing their children.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
That Guardian freebirthing article has sparked civil war in tradwife twitter. One of them is writing paragraphs about how she believes the FBS is a witchcraft cult designed to trick women into sacrificing their children.
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I've seen a couple of "well, the medical industry is worse" responses to this piece, and I would really suggest reading this first before commenting (major cw for infant death).
The reporters do seem to be holding medical trauma and bad US care for something incredibly horrifying on its own terms.
The reporters do seem to be holding medical trauma and bad US care for something incredibly horrifying on its own terms.
Great, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've seen a couple of "well, the medical industry is worse" responses to this piece, and I would really suggest reading this first before commenting (major cw for infant death).
The reporters do seem to be holding medical trauma and bad US care for something incredibly horrifying on its own terms.
The reporters do seem to be holding medical trauma and bad US care for something incredibly horrifying on its own terms.
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One of the things I'm always struck by whenever I investigate the topic of wellness or alternative medicine is how much the promise of empowerment and autonomy is used as a cover for absolving the practitioner of responsibility when it all goes wrong. And this is highlighted so explicitly here.
This is an astonishing and maddening and sad story, just incredible work from Sirin Kale.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One of the things I'm always struck by whenever I investigate the topic of wellness or alternative medicine is how much the promise of empowerment and autonomy is used as a cover for absolving the practitioner of responsibility when it all goes wrong. And this is highlighted so explicitly here.
I'm one of the few people who ChatGPT has made *less* lazy because one of my most common writing tics has become one of the main AI "tells". So now if I want to think of a quick and easy way to move on I can't write "it's not just X, it's Y" bc I don't want to be called a clanker 😭
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I'm one of the few people who ChatGPT has made *less* lazy because one of my most common writing tics has become one of the main AI "tells". So now if I want to think of a quick and easy way to move on I can't write "it's not just X, it's Y" bc I don't want to be called a clanker 😭
Great, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Great, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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The Truly Tradly Deeply podcast series has a great bit where they discuss the fantasy trad-life involves a caring, rich chad husband who removes your need to worry or think about anything, but in reality they're all adolescent manlets who cannot look after themselves. Like this guy.
In case anyone wonders how things are going in The Other Place
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Truly Tradly Deeply podcast series has a great bit where they discuss the fantasy trad-life involves a caring, rich chad husband who removes your need to worry or think about anything, but in reality they're all adolescent manlets who cannot look after themselves. Like this guy.
"if you co-sleep everyone will sleep way better" has got to be one of the funniest lies that is extremely popular on the mum internet for some reason. People really just go online and say anything!
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"if you co-sleep everyone will sleep way better" has got to be one of the funniest lies that is extremely popular on the mum internet for some reason. People really just go online and say anything!
You guys need to start crushing up Frazzles and putting them in your sandwich just trust me on this one
chip butty, pasty parm, pattie butty... crisp sandwich.... TOAST sandwich which is just toast between other bread..... is the UK OK
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You guys need to start crushing up Frazzles and putting them in your sandwich just trust me on this one
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QAA's cursedmedia.net really knocking it out of the park with Science In Transition (@livagar.bsky.social & Spencer Barrows) and now Truly Tradly Deeply (@annieknk.bsky.social and not that Megan Kelly)
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November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
QAA's cursedmedia.net really knocking it out of the park with Science In Transition (@livagar.bsky.social & Spencer Barrows) and now Truly Tradly Deeply (@annieknk.bsky.social and not that Megan Kelly)
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Can’t recommend @annieknk.bsky.social’s podcast series “Truly Tradly Deeply” enough, what outstanding (empathetic, fair, and *extensive*) reporting on all things right wing tradwifery. The closing section of the latest episode on Motherhood had me tearing up at the end. support: www.cursedmedia.net
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November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Can’t recommend @annieknk.bsky.social’s podcast series “Truly Tradly Deeply” enough, what outstanding (empathetic, fair, and *extensive*) reporting on all things right wing tradwifery. The closing section of the latest episode on Motherhood had me tearing up at the end. support: www.cursedmedia.net
This is so MySpace-core
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is so MySpace-core
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Listening to Sarah Marshall's "The Devil You Know" series on the Satanic Panic and @annieknk.bsky.social's "Truly Tradly Deeply" series on trad wife culture is feeling a little too full circle.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Listening to Sarah Marshall's "The Devil You Know" series on the Satanic Panic and @annieknk.bsky.social's "Truly Tradly Deeply" series on trad wife culture is feeling a little too full circle.
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there is some controversy here, where other scientists insist that Neanderthals and early Humans were only roommates
"Scientists of the University of Oxford think Neanderthals and early Humans may have held hands "
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
there is some controversy here, where other scientists insist that Neanderthals and early Humans were only roommates
My 19 month old son is super into sealife and oceans and can now identify and name anglerfish and angelfish, which is pretty impressive given he's still taking a random punt on whether any particular woman in the room is Mama
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My 19 month old son is super into sealife and oceans and can now identify and name anglerfish and angelfish, which is pretty impressive given he's still taking a random punt on whether any particular woman in the room is Mama
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Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
Seen a few "lol remember when people thought Megyn Kelly was feminist" takes which are basically correct but I also think elide the fact that 10 years ago she *did* sound more feminist and has discarded that aesthetic bc there's no appetite for it on the US right anymore. Total manosphere victory
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Seen a few "lol remember when people thought Megyn Kelly was feminist" takes which are basically correct but I also think elide the fact that 10 years ago she *did* sound more feminist and has discarded that aesthetic bc there's no appetite for it on the US right anymore. Total manosphere victory
Jacob Elordi and Glen Powell need to take a holiday and give some other fella a chance to be in a movie
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Jacob Elordi and Glen Powell need to take a holiday and give some other fella a chance to be in a movie
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Listening to the fantastic Truly Tradly Deeply QAA Podcast series by @annieknk.bsky.social and Megan Kelly is a fantastic listen. 100% worth the $25 yearly subscribe fee... never mind that you get a bunch of other pods like @livagar.bsky.social's great Science in Transition.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Listening to the fantastic Truly Tradly Deeply QAA Podcast series by @annieknk.bsky.social and Megan Kelly is a fantastic listen. 100% worth the $25 yearly subscribe fee... never mind that you get a bunch of other pods like @livagar.bsky.social's great Science in Transition.
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Vibes shifted again. Woke is BACK
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Vibes shifted again. Woke is BACK
My most woke opinion is that some of the replies to this are straight up eugenics and a lot of the ones about religion if implemented would have extremely foreseeable racist outcomes
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My most woke opinion is that some of the replies to this are straight up eugenics and a lot of the ones about religion if implemented would have extremely foreseeable racist outcomes
I'm starting to feel like some of the criticism towards the new (as yet unreleased!) Wuthering Heights film for not being a faithful enough adaptation might be being made by people who also haven't read the book
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm starting to feel like some of the criticism towards the new (as yet unreleased!) Wuthering Heights film for not being a faithful enough adaptation might be being made by people who also haven't read the book