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).
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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
So glad you liked it! 💕
December 22, 2024 at 2:53 AM
So glad you liked it! 💕
Reposted by TJ Billard
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.
And a special thanks to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for making the issue happen, for wanting to include me in it, and for invaluable comments in crafting my piece!
December 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
And a special thanks to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for making the issue happen, for wanting to include me in it, and for invaluable comments in crafting my piece!
Thank you so much! 😃 I was worried about my… directness. So I’m glad it was well received! 💕
December 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Thank you so much! 😃 I was worried about my… directness. So I’m glad it was well received! 💕
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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 ...
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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....