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Amanda Jean Stevenson

@amandajean.bsky.social

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Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Look at this beautiful plot from Taylor (1961)

basically incomprehensible plot of many squares in a grid with scattered points and regression lines for the points that appear to be in lines

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 58m

I totally agree childbearing and care is always costlier than not - but wouldn’t you rather daycare (and everything else kids need) were free instead of people without kids being specifically taxed? It seems to me that targeting anyone based on their reproduction is dangerous…

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, I've got some about those city people just generally being bad neighbors, too, I guess.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2h

All my cancelable takes are about city people moving to beautiful places and getting pissed about dogs.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3h

Nudge culture (and American tax policy in general) have normalized some way not ok stuff and it's time to start calling it out. Because (((wow)))

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3h

It should be *so* embarrassing to try to change other people's reproductive lives. Like embarrassing to an utterly paralyzing degree.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3h

There are ways to value care work that aren't horrifyingly creepy and selfish. Why is this so hard?

I don't know who that weird William F Buckley-almost named guy is but honey hell what failure led to that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3h

like flags flapping in the wind

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, goody, look who gets to be thrown under the bus.

"As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded."

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 9h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 22h

Ceding trans people's humanity has been such an epic moral and political failure.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban.

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

Today at Law Dork:

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not sure it's middlebrow intellectualism in my case. Kinda feels more like consumerism. But v similar.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 23h

It’s so great! I told several people about it today as an example of why universities are important. Thank you for your work!

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW many of the longest running orgs have largely or essentially stopped advocacy in the past 15 years on the abortion rights side

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

but on the other side, too. they're FIGHTING.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

for REAL

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

This is a surprisingly non-trivial question. The proliferation of organizations on both sides since the 2010s is extreme and many of the new orgs are particularly influential. I'm sorry I don't have a concrete suggestion about where to look!

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

This is great! Thank you!

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

the worst thing about being a demographer besides being a tool of the administrative state is that you start to think words like "fecundable" are normal

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously though, this is what professors are FOR. These two don't know what this will get us and neither do I, but it's cool and interesting and it MIGHT be critical someday so they wrote it all out even though it's mildly absurd. I am so happy and grateful.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

I love you, European demographers. Please never, ever change ❤️

www.tandfonline.com

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

There's so much to fight for. <3

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

Today on a perfect fall walk while my kid did time trials on his bike, I convinced my mom to make art about her political feelings.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

sad!

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god are they still mad at Eisenhower?!

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

People threatening to kill you and your family sucks. I'm sorry. And also death threats from individuals different in kind. Governmental threats and actions against dissenters and firings in service of swiftly-changing government demands are new concerns and it is reasonable to take them seriously.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

or wear somebody else's clothes if that's what you're into