Haley McEwen
@haleymcewen.bsky.social
Author, The US Christian Right & Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa | Postdoctoral Researcher, Political Science, University of Gothenburg | 🇿🇦🇺🇸🇸🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
🚨 @thebomahotels is hosting an anti-LGBT+ conference in Nairobi, but Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, and Tripadvisor are still listing them. Help us demand they stop promoting hate: a.allout.org/s/v0Ez3/
Booking.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🚨 @thebomahotels is hosting an anti-LGBT+ conference in Nairobi, but Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, and Tripadvisor are still listing them. Help us demand they stop promoting hate: a.allout.org/s/v0Ez3/
May 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Who is fueling global anti-gender movements? And what role do African anti-gender politics play in wider transnational far right advocacy?
I sat down for a pod with UNRISD to talk geopolitics, narrative power, and the urgent need for organized outrage! #antigender #US #Africa #UN
I sat down for a pod with UNRISD to talk geopolitics, narrative power, and the urgent need for organized outrage! #antigender #US #Africa #UN
The North American Religious Right's Influence on the Global Gender Backlash | UNRISD Podcasts
shows.acast.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Who is fueling global anti-gender movements? And what role do African anti-gender politics play in wider transnational far right advocacy?
I sat down for a pod with UNRISD to talk geopolitics, narrative power, and the urgent need for organized outrage! #antigender #US #Africa #UN
I sat down for a pod with UNRISD to talk geopolitics, narrative power, and the urgent need for organized outrage! #antigender #US #Africa #UN
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Reminder: This upcoming event with @lawtransform.bsky.social at @bergenglobal.bsky.social: 6 May, 14.15. @haleymcewen.bsky.social & Jon Braddy will talk to Kari Jegerstedt about the Trump administration's #antigender strategy and its broader implications for #academicfreedom. #standupforscience
Trump, anti-gender politics and academic freedom
This panel conversation is open to everyone and is part of "Sex and politics in a global perspective", a combined seminar series, PhD and master course organised by SKOK, LawTransform and SkeivForsk.
www.uib.no
May 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reminder: This upcoming event with @lawtransform.bsky.social at @bergenglobal.bsky.social: 6 May, 14.15. @haleymcewen.bsky.social & Jon Braddy will talk to Kari Jegerstedt about the Trump administration's #antigender strategy and its broader implications for #academicfreedom. #standupforscience
Anti-gender assaults on the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies have increased dramatically since Trump took office. If you’re in Bergen, register to join this important and timely conversation. #antigender #academicfreedom #genderstudies
We are happy to announce the excellent panel of this open event @bergenglobal.bsky.social on 6 May that we are organizing with @lawtransform.bsky.social and Skeivforsk: @haleymcewen.bsky.social, Jon Braddy & Kari Jegerstedt (UiB). Moderator: Randi Gressgård (UiB). In-person only. More details 👇
Trump, anti-gender politics and academic freedom
This panel conversation is open to everyone and is part of "Sex and politics in a global perspective", a combined seminar series, PhD and master course organised by SKOK, LawTransform and SkeivForsk.
www.uib.no
April 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Anti-gender assaults on the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies have increased dramatically since Trump took office. If you’re in Bergen, register to join this important and timely conversation. #antigender #academicfreedom #genderstudies
If your work touches justice, equity, data, or health—you’re already in this fight.
Bodily autonomy is being reshaped by both headline-grabbing laws and quiet administrative moves. Here's why cross-sector, cross-movement solidarity matters more than ever. #BodilyAutonomy
Bodily autonomy is being reshaped by both headline-grabbing laws and quiet administrative moves. Here's why cross-sector, cross-movement solidarity matters more than ever. #BodilyAutonomy
Haley McEwen on Substack
Bodily Autonomy Is Under Siege—Loudly, Quietly, and Systematically
Sometimes it’s loud and unmistakable: sweeping executive orders, televised signings of bans, or moral panic in primetime news cycles...
substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If your work touches justice, equity, data, or health—you’re already in this fight.
Bodily autonomy is being reshaped by both headline-grabbing laws and quiet administrative moves. Here's why cross-sector, cross-movement solidarity matters more than ever. #BodilyAutonomy
Bodily autonomy is being reshaped by both headline-grabbing laws and quiet administrative moves. Here's why cross-sector, cross-movement solidarity matters more than ever. #BodilyAutonomy
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South Carolina bill comes after contraception - claiming MAP & IUD is form of abortion.
Report by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social who warned this was coming (as did I)
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Report by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social who warned this was coming (as did I)
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
South Carolina Bill Would Ban Contraception & Pro-Choice Websites
2.6.25
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
South Carolina bill comes after contraception - claiming MAP & IUD is form of abortion.
Report by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social who warned this was coming (as did I)
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Report by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social who warned this was coming (as did I)
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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We 👏 are 👏 led!!! 💙💙💙 @repjasmine.bsky.social #JasmineCrockett
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We 👏 are 👏 led!!! 💙💙💙 @repjasmine.bsky.social #JasmineCrockett
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There is still beauty in this world
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There is still beauty in this world
Find Your Senator and then write to them to demand that the checks and balances of government are fully enforced #MuskTakeover #USAID etc…
U.S. Senate: States in the Senate
www.senate.gov
February 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Find Your Senator and then write to them to demand that the checks and balances of government are fully enforced #MuskTakeover #USAID etc…
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In any other country, a billionaire donor like Musk installing loyalists to seize federal agencies, access private citizen data and information about his competitors, and gut working class policies to fund his own tax cut would be called a coup.
February 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In any other country, a billionaire donor like Musk installing loyalists to seize federal agencies, access private citizen data and information about his competitors, and gut working class policies to fund his own tax cut would be called a coup.
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Beyoncé and Taylor on stage and Kanye in the parking lot
February 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Beyoncé and Taylor on stage and Kanye in the parking lot
“When the US sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold” but now the ‘rest’
is subject to the metaphorical illness of authoritarianism that the US wants to spread, but the ACTUAL illnesses that #USAID has helped countries around the world to combat for decades.
is subject to the metaphorical illness of authoritarianism that the US wants to spread, but the ACTUAL illnesses that #USAID has helped countries around the world to combat for decades.
More USAID staff ousted as Trump administration dismantles aid agency
Two senior officials overseeing the agency's security operations were also put on leave after refusing to hand over classified documents to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“When the US sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold” but now the ‘rest’
is subject to the metaphorical illness of authoritarianism that the US wants to spread, but the ACTUAL illnesses that #USAID has helped countries around the world to combat for decades.
is subject to the metaphorical illness of authoritarianism that the US wants to spread, but the ACTUAL illnesses that #USAID has helped countries around the world to combat for decades.
A coup is underway in the US. Prove that those of us saying this are wrong. @schumer.senate.gov @pelositrackers.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A coup is underway in the US. Prove that those of us saying this are wrong. @schumer.senate.gov @pelositrackers.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
Is this, or is this not, a coup? Jan 6 only via the Treasury this time @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @chrislhayes.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Is this, or is this not, a coup? Jan 6 only via the Treasury this time @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @chrislhayes.bsky.social
The freezing of US foreign aid is the product of decades of work by the US Christian Right to instrumentalize US foreign policy. Read more here about this history and its impact in Africa👇 #ForeignAid #Project2025 #Trump
The U.S. Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa
This book addresses the role of US Christian Right pro-family groups in mobilizing counter-movements in Africa against anti-gender politics.
link.springer.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The freezing of US foreign aid is the product of decades of work by the US Christian Right to instrumentalize US foreign policy. Read more here about this history and its impact in Africa👇 #ForeignAid #Project2025 #Trump
January 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
More hypocrisy from the “pro-family” party that will “protect” women and children…
January 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
More hypocrisy from the “pro-family” party that will “protect” women and children…
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Submissions are open for my workshop on everything ambiguous, liminal, and in-between about gender and sexuality in IR.
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📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣
✅ (WS H) International Politics of Gender and Sexuality: Is There Place for Ambiguity in a Polarized Context?
✅ (WS H) International Politics of Gender and Sexuality: Is There Place for Ambiguity in a Polarized Context?
January 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Submissions are open for my workshop on everything ambiguous, liminal, and in-between about gender and sexuality in IR.
Apply before 11 February: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
More information: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...
Apply before 11 February: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
More information: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...
Hey BlueSkiers 💙
January 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hey BlueSkiers 💙