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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 6d

To me, it is becoming increasingly insensitive to make the life-under-fascism is boring argument -- even as it may be generally true -- when immigrants in the US have been afraid to leave the house for months. We need to find new and better ways of publicly communicating what fascism feels like.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 6d

I understand your statement. I am a scholar of gender and democratization & I know and teach the theory. In many ways, I do not disagree. But my point is we need to recognize that these theories and explanations are from the perspective of the privileged. The frogs were never bored.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 6d

I understand we want to explain large-scale complacency, but let's be clear: authoritarianism is *not* boring for women, minoritized individuals, immigrants, dissidents & everyone whose existence and rights are actively threatened by the regime. Erasing the harms is part of how complacency wins.

Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com · 7d

Authoritarianism is boring.

My American friends believe that dictatorships are dramatic with public executions and whatnot. Unlike the movies, dictatorships are unexciting. Life goes on: people get groceries and struggle with bills, as usual.

Losing agency in your own society is mostly boring.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 13d

The point is not only to make parents, families, and people feel guilty; the *main* point is to make *women* *be* guilty. This whole shebang is deeply tied to the Trump's administration efforts to return women to their 'proper' roles in hearth and home and to police their bodies and their choices.

NPR @npr.org · 13d

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

Trump admin 'seems to care very little about autistic people,' says advocate

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

n.pr

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 14d

Oh yes, they know. That's even (part of) the point.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 17d

This is so not surprising. A ministry civil servant once handed Argentina's 2005 election results on a floppy disk... In 2009. The IT team at UC San Diego had to resuscitate a computer from the scrap heap to read it. Then it turned out the spreadsheet file was a QuickBooks format from the 1990s...

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 18d

Which I know is not a substantive response but.... Urrggghhh.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 18d

Urgh!!!!!

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · 27d

An amazing thank you @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & @sfranceschet.bsky.social for choosing my article 'Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation' for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Sep 6

18 of mine...

Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Sep 6

And so the political scientists continue, screaming fruitlessly into the void of actual politicians' behaviour...

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oooh!! I used to teach an Ethics and Politics class and used both cases to talk about dissent, institutional culture & whistleblowing. I studied astronomy as an undergrad & my father worked on the Apollo missions. I would always get emotional teaching Columbia.... But such important care studies.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Aug 25

No, really, how do I get one of these in Canada? I will pay!

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to be featured in this new video from UN Women discussing barriers to women's political participation-- and for all the women aspirants out there, why 'it's not you, it's them'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLy...

How social norms shape who leads and decides in politics | WYDE | Women’s Leadership Initiative

YouTube video by UN Women

www.youtube.com

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Aug 2

We aren't APSR, but zero in my timeb associate editing PGI and lead editing at EJPG. Even short commentaries that are not peer reviewed, and that we invite, get a minor revisions the first time.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jul 23

It has been an honor to participate in @msmagazine.com's podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with @carmenriosss.bsky.social. In this episode, we talk about how feminists worldwide have redefined democracy ⤵️
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...

carmen f*cking rios @carmenriosss.bsky.social · Jul 17

"feminist activism plays a long game."

i talked to @jennpiscopo.bsky.social for "looking back, moving forward" about what she learned watching "parity in everything” reforms expand in mexico over decades.

read the full interview and tune in @msmagazine.com!

msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...

'Feminist Activism Plays a Long Game': Jennifer M. Piscopo on the Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Mexico

The professor and researcher has watched gender quotas transform the political landscape in Mexico over the last two decades. Here's what she thinks feminists in the U.S. can learn from their example....

msmagazine.com

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jul 22

They certainly ensured I paid the 2.99 GBP I owed them on my self-assessment....

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 30

I cannot believe I'm in the same podcast as Dolores Huerta and Goveror Maura Healey. Subscribe today for the new @msmagazine.com podcast on feminist futures with @carmenriosss.bsky.social! 🔽

carmen f*cking rios @carmenriosss.bsky.social · Jun 28

in case you're looking for some hope and inspiration these days...

looking back, moving forward, hosted by yours truly for @msmagazine.com, explores how we can build the feminist future we want — and how feminist history proves that it's possible.

listen + subscribe: msmagazine.com/series/looki...

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 14

I added London, UK -- but feel free to delete if you are not tracking international protests.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 13

It was so lovely to spend the day with smart gender and politics scholars, learning about such new and wonderful work! Thank you so much @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social!

Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 13

So proud of @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social (one of our great @uclspp.bsky.social PhD candidates) for expertly organizing a wonderful workshop with cherished UK-based colleagues working on gender politics! Appreciate this community and their fantastic contributions (both in general & to this workshop!).

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 12

"escalating tensions"....

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is in addition to just annotating the PDF as if is were paper and then making a new PDF with your annotations. There are a lot of videos on YouTube of people using the different features so you can see how it works ... I watched a lot before I bought!

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 4

there is a digest feature where you can bracket text on a PDF and it excerpts the bracketed text to a digest, where you can add notes and then export just the bracketed text and the notes. You can tap to move between the bracketed text and the original file. You can tag and organize excepts.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 3

There are partner apps for syncing and a drive or Dropbox integration, so any PDFs you have can be synced from your laptop to the device.

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Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social · Jun 3

Hmmm. There is a built in web browser and also you can load a Kindle app, but I've mostly just loaded PDFs that are on my hard drive, rather than trying to annotate ebooks from the web/Kindle app. It's amazing at PDF annotation, and then you can export a new PDF with your annotations.

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