TJ Billard
@billard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
I’ve published a bit in the last few years, but today I just submitted the first major, multi-study, all new data paper from the next phase of my research career. It’s some bold new ideas and I haven’t been this nervous going into peer review in a long time!
July 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’ve published a bit in the last few years, but today I just submitted the first major, multi-study, all new data paper from the next phase of my research career. It’s some bold new ideas and I haven’t been this nervous going into peer review in a long time!
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It only took me 2.5 hours but I figured out how to give 50 free views with this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTY45...
I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪
I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪
June 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It only took me 2.5 hours but I figured out how to give 50 free views with this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTY45...
I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪
I'm sorry I can't share the other essays in the forum which are probably less cynical than mine - but the paywall is paywalling. And yes, I know about the typo 🤪
I activated my out of office for my research leave and I could not be more excited. 😭 Don’t expect an email response for the rest of the year, but do expect updates on some major research projects! 📚
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I activated my out of office for my research leave and I could not be more excited. 😭 Don’t expect an email response for the rest of the year, but do expect updates on some major research projects! 📚
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Join us on March 20 for an insightful discussion on Transgender Equality!
📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute
⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP
📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute
⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP
Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
TJ Billard offers an insider’s view into transgender activism during the first two years of the first Trump administration.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Join us on March 20 for an insightful discussion on Transgender Equality!
📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute
⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP
📢 Event: Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
📍 Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute
⏰ Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🎤 Speaker: @billard.bsky.social
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/3PPsewP
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Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it.
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
You can find it here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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internally at Meta:
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
January 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
internally at Meta:
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
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there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos
Montana is the clearest place to see the nationalization of US politics. Whole Dem ticket was multigenerational MT hunters & farmers in bolo ties. Dem gov candidate owned a gun manufacturer. GOP slate was outta state tech.
Whole race was dominated by natl culture war & southern border, GOP sweep
Whole race was dominated by natl culture war & southern border, GOP sweep
December 23, 2024 at 2:35 AM
there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos
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This is an amazing piece by @billard.bsky.social . So many important points not just for political communication but also political science and the social sciences generally.
December 18, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This is an amazing piece by @billard.bsky.social . So many important points not just for political communication but also political science and the social sciences generally.
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Thanks for being a part of this project TJ! ❤️
This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.
This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.
December 18, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Thanks for being a part of this project TJ! ❤️
This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.
This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.
I had so many thoughts that I could have written 10,000 words on this topic, but I tried my best to distill them down to as close to 2,000 as I could get! Please give it a read. 😃
@billard.bsky.social channels Sandra Ball-Rokeach, critiquing normative assumptions in PolComm.
They argue the field normalizes hegemonic standards while delegitimizing political communication that challenges systemic oppression.
politicalcommunication.org/article/bill...
They argue the field normalizes hegemonic standards while delegitimizing political communication that challenges systemic oppression.
politicalcommunication.org/article/bill...
Billard: Theory and/as Normative Assumptions – PolComm
Theory and/as Normative Assumptions in Political Communication Research[1] Thomas J Billard, Northwestern University https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-98561-6, PDF The eminent commun...
politicalcommunication.org
December 18, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I had so many thoughts that I could have written 10,000 words on this topic, but I tried my best to distill them down to as close to 2,000 as I could get! Please give it a read. 😃
The latest issue of @polcomm.bsky.social’s Political Communication Report, on normative dimensions of pol comm research, is out now! Excited to have a piece in the issue alongside so many brilliant scholars I adore.
Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...
Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...
Fall 2024 – Issue 30 “What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing” – PolComm
“What does PolComm Stand for? Normative Dimensions of Political Communication Research & Theorizing” Letter from the Editor[1] Curd Knüpfer, University of Southern Denmark Read as PDF As noted ...
politicalcommunication.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The latest issue of @polcomm.bsky.social’s Political Communication Report, on normative dimensions of pol comm research, is out now! Excited to have a piece in the issue alongside so many brilliant scholars I adore.
Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...
Give the whole issue a read! politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...
It’s crazy to watch the plot of Wicked play out in real time while the film is actively playing in theatres.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...
Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
It’s crazy to watch the plot of Wicked play out in real time while the film is actively playing in theatres.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...
The amount of fun people are having on Twitter with The Claims Adjuster versus the amount of buzzkill scolding people are doing on Bluesky is why I doubt I’ll ever spend that much time on here.
December 10, 2024 at 2:39 AM
The amount of fun people are having on Twitter with The Claims Adjuster versus the amount of buzzkill scolding people are doing on Bluesky is why I doubt I’ll ever spend that much time on here.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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We're hiring in American Politics at the junior level. Position will be affiliated with GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Applications due January 2nd. I'm on sabbatical, but I am happy to answer questions about the dept., broadly. DM me. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...
Assistant Professor of Political Science
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure track professor (Assistant Professor) in American Politics. The position will start in Fall 2025 and is pending final budgetary ap...
www.gwu.jobs
November 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
We're hiring in American Politics at the junior level. Position will be affiliated with GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. Applications due January 2nd. I'm on sabbatical, but I am happy to answer questions about the dept., broadly. DM me. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...
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It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy
This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM
It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Open access >> Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...
www.tandfonline.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Open access >> Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Curd Knüpfer,Sarah J. Jackson & Daniel Kreiss
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨🗳️ The 2024 elections saw a surge in anti-trans political ads, as the Republican Party capitalized on gender panics and cultural divides. @billard.bsky.social explores the effectiveness of these ads and the radicalization of the right in his latest analysis. Dive in here: https://bit.ly/4eBbfs0
November 22, 2024 at 8:25 AM
🚨🗳️ The 2024 elections saw a surge in anti-trans political ads, as the Republican Party capitalized on gender panics and cultural divides. @billard.bsky.social explores the effectiveness of these ads and the radicalization of the right in his latest analysis. Dive in here: https://bit.ly/4eBbfs0
Great to watch my student Walker West Brewer present their year-long ethnography of political socialization among LDS women, which I supervised, at #NCA24!
November 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Great to watch my student Walker West Brewer present their year-long ethnography of political socialization among LDS women, which I supervised, at #NCA24!
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Incredibly cool collection about the 2024 election.
Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election!
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Incredibly cool collection about the 2024 election.
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Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election!
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws
November 15, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election!
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election!
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws
November 15, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Honored and excited to have a short entry in this rapid-response election analysis book alongside so many incredible scholars. Read what I have to say about Republican anti-trans ads in the 2024 election!
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
www.electionanalysis.ws/us/